The best ultrabooks available in the Summer 2012 – Part 1

There are desktop and then there are laptops. But in the past two years there emerged a new breed of notebooks called the ultrabooks. This is not a new that the likes of HP, Dell, Acer and Asus have all indulged in the new business and there have been more ultrabooks released this year than 2011.

The term Ultrabook is although a trademark used by Intel to market certain notebooks that fall in the requisites set by the company. However, there are some super-slim notebooks in the market that for one reason or the other do not fall in the ultrabook elite club but are still ultra-portable. This has sprung to life a new term called fauxtrabooks.

There are many ultrabooks that beat some of the mid-sized notebooks in performance and shape but that does not hold a restriction for fauxtrabooks to be discussed under the same header. MacBook Air, for instance, does not hold the Ultrabook moniker, but it is the pioneer of the concept. There are other notebooks that are slim but do not fall in the same category.

The following part of the post discusses some of the best slim laptops that are either official ultrabooks or fauxtrabooks.

MacBook Air

Although it is not an official ultrabook, it is the one device that started it all. The release of the first Air was in 2007 and though it attracted attention late in the industry, it still maintains the status of one of the slimmest notebooks in the market.

One of the aspects that made the Air a hard sell in the market was its price tag. Without an optical drive and Ethernet port, it was the still priced at the around $1500, which was way out of some people’s budget who wanted more productivity in lesser price.

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