An Ultrabook is a computer in a category of thin and lightweight ultraportable laptops, defined by a specification from Intel. The name Ultrabook is an Intel trademark. By this marketing initiative and an associated $300M fund, Intel hopes to stimulate the market for Intel-based laptops similar to Apple’s Macbook Air, against rising competition from ARM processor-based Tablet Computers. For a laptop to count as an Ultrabook, it needs to be thin...20mm or less, very lightweight (around 3 pounds). With no optical drive. Internally the memory is flash based, also known as a Solid State Drive. This is how Ultrabooks are defined on Wikipedia.
Before I begin this post, I’d like to say that Ultrabooks, are revolutionizing, or will revolutionize the way we compute outside of home. I wanna say (and don’t hold me to this) that the Macbook Air was the first Ultrabook to be produced, i believe I’m wrong about that though, but i do know that apple with that beautiful machine revolutionized this now expanding market, but lets be honest doesn’t Apple tend to revolutionize every piece of hardware they set out to make? I honestly remember when the 1st generation of Macbook Air landed...I cant remember which brand were producing Ultraboooks, but i do remember the commercial leading up to its release. a hand put it down....it was pencil thin, you didn’t know what was happening, and then the hand lifted the lid...to show what it was....sent chills up my spine. The camera rotated to show it was a Macbook, except 1/3 of the thickness, with just about the same power. Flash memory loads faster, no spinning disc means better energy efficiency, it also meant a slimmer body. Since the chassis happened to be so thin, it couldn’t house an optical drive, so what you began to need was an external drive, apple of course had its branded superdrive. Personally, i support the idea of Ultrabooks, i love it. In this time where everything is coming in the form of downloads, and data, there isn’t always a need for an optical drive.
The downside of an Ultrabook, is still the pricepoint. the size is absolutely mind blowing, and the speed of it, for that size is still utterly amazing, but the reason it achieves this is the ssd. Solid State Drives, which are still a fairly new piece of technology are pretty expensive, therefore you aren’t catching too many consumers jumping ship just yet. But what you need to realize is that, the life span of Ultrabooks, theoretically, would be longer than your average notebook...NO SPINNING DISK. The risk of overheating is way down. Asus makes beautiful Ultrabooks, and just recently the well known company Lenovo decided to begin producing their lines of Ultrabooks. If I’m correct they actually built an optical drive in the latest build, without sacrificing depth, but of course they sacrificed a little bit of weight. So now the question is, is it an Ultrabook? It still is, but barely. And i know what your thinking, James how do i watch my dvds? play my cds? ENTER THE CLOUD!!! We are in a time where this cloud technology will take off, Ultrabooks are perfect partners of cloud technology, quick, Ultraportable, thin, bright screens, long battery life. Ultraviolet? The blu ray Cloud i believe is a godsend for Ultrabooks, and amazon, and icloud with their respective services open the floodgates for these devices, granted 500gb of ssd isn’t the norm yet, its only a matter of time until it becomes standard. Ultrabooks, are more for streamed data, not permanent data, But give the technology a few years, and i guarantee that Ultrabooks will be in 60% of laps.
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