If you’re new to ultrabooks and are considering buying one over a traditional laptop, here are five reasons why.
1) They’re light: ultrabooks don’t have optical drives (CD/DVD drives) and they use SSD (solid-state drives) which are lighter than average hard drives. These two features alone make an ultrabook very light compared to traditional laptops which is a big plus if you carry your computer with you all day long.
2) Their batteries last longer: again thanks to the lack of an optical drive that would require a lot of computing power and the use of SSD that use little power too but also thanks to the Intel processor that’s optimized to use as little energy as possible, an ultrabook is able to last longer than your average laptop. There’s even word of ultrabooks that can last almost 10-hours!
3) They perform well: you’d think that ultrabooks being small and light are probably weak but that’s not the case. Thanks to the Intel processor, the solid-state drives and advanced graphics cards, an ultrabook laptop is actually as fast as a traditional notebook and in some instances even faster thanks to the fast hard drives.
4) They’re pretty: most people don’t care about the looks of their laptops but Apple made the world pay more attention to design thanks to their products. Ultrabooks are stylish and it shows that attention went into making sure that they’re slick and are quickly changing the notions that computers have to be grey and dull bricks.
5) They’re the future: the fate of laptop computers is that some notebooks will be made for portability and others for performance. In other words, ultrabooks will become the laptops of choice for people who commute or travel with their computer while the ones meant to sit on a desk to perform heavy tasks will only become bulkier. Ultrabooks are more than capable of performing the tasks of the average computer user.
But there’s a flipside to the coin: ultrabooks do have their disadvantages.