If you've been shopping for a laptop lately, you may have a vague idea that "ultrabook" means "lightweight" and "small" but otherwise you may be a little confused about why some laptops are called ...

You've seen them in commercials. All over Best Buy. And a lot more are popping up alongside the MacBook Air, whether it's in coffee shops or at 30,000 feet. But what exactly is an Ultrabook? According ...

Photograph by Robert Cardin The PC is undergoing its most radical makeover since the advent of the IBM PC three decades ago. Ultrabooks and Windows 8 are leading the charge. Slim Ultrabook designs ...

Buyers looking for premium Windows laptops today have plenty of choices; every few months sees some splashy launch of a new high-end PC. Ultrabooks have become the standard design for most premium ...

Like a barebones PC chassis, the Swift 7 has potential, but lacks a few integral pieces — like a backlit keyboard, for instance. Regardless, in all its grandeur as the (current) thinnest laptop in the ...

Apple’s most recent MacBook Air is selling like hotcakes, for good reason. Current Airs are incredibly thin and light, and–unlike the first version–they’re powerful enough for most everyday work. But ...

While cheap laptops will always have their place in the world, Ultrabooks will always be the standard. This is the group of devices you’ll want to check out if you need a laptop that can do taxing ...

Note: Yes, there is a real difference between shipped and sold. I was trying to make a much larger point, but I’ll add a short note to clarify some notes that I’ve received. When we’re discussing ...

There’s a good chance that your next laptop will be thinner and lighter than you can possibly imagine. This week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Intel unveiled its grand plan to make ...

Don't believe the hype? Ultrabooks? Is that some new class of best-seller novel? Not even close. Ultrabooks are laptops - so they're books only in the 'notebooks-means-laptops' sense of word. Oh, ...

If you're the type who refers to the Oxford English Dictionary during simple Scrabble games, you and I might not see eye to eye on whether or not to call an UltraBook PC a mobile device. By old-school ...

Ultrabooks aren't designed for heavy gaming. Even so, it's good to know what to expect from any system you're thinking about buying. Although they may not be designed with gaming in mind, Ultrabooks ...