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For something so slim and light, Ultrabooks seem to be the next big thing for business travellers.
But what do you give up when you make the move from a conventional laptop to to an ultra-portable Ultrabook -- and are those traits worth the trade-off?
Earlier this year I made the huge move from a 17 inch laptop which was top of the line in 2009, to a relatively tiny 11 inch ultrabook.
(My swap was from a MacBook Pro to a MacBook Air, but my thoughts apply equally to other ultraportables like the HP Folio, Dell XPS 14z, or Toshiba Satellite Z830.)
I knew I'd like the footprint of an ultrabook with battery like Dell HP297 battery , dell GW240 battery , dell RN873 battery , dell XR693 battery , dell 0XR693 battery , dell 312-0625 battery , Dell Latitude X200 battery , Dell 8U443 battery , Dell Latitude X200 battery , Dell 312-0058 battery because I used a 12 inch laptop as my main computer back in 2004, before laptops moved to the widescreen form factor we see today, and loved the size and portability of that machine.
I'm not going to tell you that my eleven-inch Ultrabook is small, or light, or convenient, or anything else you already know if you're considering one.
What I will share with you are a number of observations -- both good and bad -- since I started using an Ultrabook as my full-time laptop some two months ago.
Here's what I really like about working on an ultrabook -- and the tradeoffs that I knew I'd have to make.
One of the things I notice whenever I travel with a non-Ultrabook is that it takes forever for most regular laptops to start up, shut down and drop into sleep mode.
It's about moving data around the laptop from the short-term memory (RAM) to long-term storage (hard drive). Most since laptops come with mechanical spinning hard drives, and that copy-before-sleep process takes some time.
The immensely faster solid state drive (SSD) of an Ultrabook blows that away.
No more sitting at the office, cafe, hotel or airport lounge waiting for the blinking "it's safe to move me without damaging your hard drive" light – just drop the Ultrabook’s lid and head out the door.
This may seem like a no-brainer if you're familiar with the tech, but one of the less well-advertised benefits of a solid state drive is the extraordinary speed advantage over hard drives -- especially laptop hard drives, which tend to be slower than their desktop siblings.
I've found that intensive tasks like Photoshop feel just as fast -- if not faster -- on my Ultrabook than my older laptop.
3. Web services aren’t quite there yet
A standard piece of advice doled out to Ultrabook switchers is to start using web services instead of trying to store too much stuff -- such as email, music, photos, videos, and even documents -- on the laptop.
This is driven by the smaller capacity of solid state drives compared to hard drives: you can be talking about 64GB for an entry-level Ultrabook but 320GB for a conventional laptop.
Sadly, hitching your wagon to web services isn’t always practical, especially for Australians and business travellers.
Music streaming services like Spotify aren't available everywhere yet, and if you're on the road you may not be able to access it.
Similarly, keeping your email entirely online is fine if you're always online -- but if you're in the air there are very few web-based email services that let you continue reading your email and bashing out replies without an Internet connection.
Photos and videos, too, are tricky, quite often because of bandwidth in our neck of the woods. We see more frequently metered hotel Internet connections and more expensive mobile broadband than the (usually US-based) people who give the "move your life online" advice. So these high-bandwidth activities can get costly quickly.
And some web services aren't yet adapted properly to smaller ultralight screens. Surprisingly, Google
is particularly bad at this, with Google Reader and Gmail especially annoying to use on a small screen until their very latest style changes.