Amazingly light and thin laptops are being built now under the name Ultrabooks, 2012 is going to be a huge year for these new, insanely portable laptops. Since the release of Apple’s MacBook Air, PC makers have been working their way into this intense market with their own ‘light as feathers’ portable computers.
What Exactly is an Ultrabook?
These new Ultrabooks are laptops in the thin, light and ultraportable category. The basic requirements for a laptop to be considered an Ultrabook are a thinness of less than 20 mm (.8 inch), and weigh less than 3 pounds.
They don’t have optical disc drives, use flash-based SSD drives instead of hard drives and stay powered up for many hours on a single charge. Every detail has been checked to make sure these machines aren’t limited in portability.
The MacBook Air amazed everyone with its current thinness of .11 inches at its thinnest point. Though the machine is tiny, it is still powerful and incredibly fast, especially with its standard SSD drive. You can carry around the thing all day and not feel weighed down, and not run to a power outlet every hour!
What’s the difference between the Ultrabooks vs netbooks that have been becoming popular? Well, there’s a huge difference, like explained above, the Ultrabooks bring the power of the full sized laptops to the ultra portable world netbooks once ruled.
The Ultrabooks 2012 Will Bring Us
Many PC manufacturers are working on bringing us these awesome new machines powered with Intel’s latest processors. ASUS, Lenovo and Acer have already shown some amazing Ultrabooks, and 2012 will bring us our portable, super laptop needs at great prices. Goals are being set to release many of these laptops for under $1000, some as low as $600!
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Intel’s strategy to help make the potential future of portable computing will be the new computer section, convertible Ultrabooks with Windows 8. With the reputation of tablets exploding on the market place, laptop computer sales and profits were beginning to decline swiftly and Intel is working on everything that they can to keep the mobile computer market place.
From the manufacturer that brought us the amazing Zenbook Ultrabooks comes the ASUS VivoBook. These new touchscreen Ultrabooks come equipped with the new Windows 8 operating system and its touch and gesture control features. With two models out to choose from, the X202E and the S400CA, these Ultrabooks are priced to rival the high-end tablets on the market like the Apple iPad. 
Laptop manufacturers have been working for a long time on merging a laptop and a tablet into one new gadget. The result of these tablet laptops is the new convertible Ultrabook category. This may be pointing out the obvious, but the new Windows 8 equipped machines are touchscreen Ultrabooks that can also be used as tablets. All of these Ultrabooks convert to tablets by either flipping the touchscreen all the way around or by simply removing the tablet touchscreen.
