In line with modern technological trends, ultrabooks are surely the right blend between a tablet and a laptop, in fact in this regard Intel popularly refers to them as “A laptop when you need it, and A tablet when you want it”. Since the conception of this idea of ultrabooks, many themes and styles have evolved in its design.....
Nevertheless, the prime aim behind its design remains to allow for a battery efficient system along with a sleek and stylish look, that considerably reduces the bulk that earlier came with carrying a laptop. Speaking factually, what defines an Ultrabook, are often the following features; A low voltage Intel Core processor, a frame no thicker than 21 mm, at least five hours of battery life and lightning-fast boot times. Many new latest ultrabooks, with all sorts of diverse features and with different price ranges are now entering the market. Few of the top competitors in ultrabooks today are as listed below
1) HP Pavilion TouchSmart 15z-b000 Sleekbook
This ultra-book involves a few trade-offs with regards to most of its required features, but nevertheless it comes at a relatively cheaper price range. This mid-size, slim looking laptop also comes with a touch screen. Along with the great design of this laptop, another superb feature that comes with it is its high graphics power. Despite the aforementioned attractive features, one of the only major down side of this ultrabook remains to be its poor battery life.
2) Acer Aspire S7
This is perhaps one of the most premium touch-screen designs, yet again coming with windows 8. Though it is one of the priciest ultrabooks, it does definitely provide you with a high quality of user experience. Acer Aspire S7 offers you great performance, a significantly strong battery life and a high resolution touch screen. The design of this laptop is often seen as a great competitor to that of Apple’s. One of the only setbacks this ultrabook has, apart from being an expensive one, is the relatively weak responsiveness of its touch pad.
3) Sony VAIO Pro 13
This is indeed one of the lightest 13 inch ultrabooks available in the market. It offers a colorful HD touch display, along with robust sound and a very superfast SSD. In fact this laptop comes with one of the world’s fastest SSD. All these extremely powerful features are accompanied by a very long battery life that adds to the comfort of using this ultrabook.
4) Macbook Air
At a better selling price, this 13 inch MacBook air remains one of the best sellers in industry. With its latest model, the MacBook achieves an amazing battery life and its multi touch track pad remains the best amongst many other ultra-book models. Though one of the major setbacks that this laptop experiences include, not incorporating features like touch screens and high resolution displays. Despite a lack of the inclusion of the above stated modern designs, like the touch screen, the latest MacBook air has been greatly reformed on the inside where functionality is concerned. These improvements include its enhanced battery life, as mentioned before, along with a lower price than before.
5) Toshiba Kirabook
This series of Toshiba ultra-books is one of the most expensive designs that is available in the market, and hence often tends to be at par with the MacBook series when it comes to pricing. This ultrabook incorporates the use of extremely fine and superior materials and hence comes with an unusually superior high-resolution display. The screen of this laptop comes with the fine Retina display as well. One of the major obvious setbacks to this model is its very high price, while the second major downside is the fact that its battery life is not up to the mark, as it is expected with a high price.
Author Bio:
This Guest Post is written by Muhammad Azam who has good experience in writing articles on laptops, gadgets and Smartphone apps. He has also previously written post for some well known European brands like Protect Your Bubble. He also suggest to take Protectyourbubble.com UK laptop insurance to protect your expensive laptops.
