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hey guys this is Austin and Stevie with the video going over ultrabooks over the last 10 to 15 years we've had a lot of different kinds of notebooks so we've had normal laptops we've had tiny little netbooks we've had gigantic desktop replacements and more of course we did see some in 2011 including the Apple MacBook Air so although several windows-based ultra books including the Isuzu den book whoever I think this year we're going to see a lot more that's all fine and great but what is an ultrabook well in my opinion there are three major things that separate ultrabook from your standard run-of-the-mill laptop first off is the size in general ultrabooks are very very thin most of them coming in at well under an inch then on top of that the screen sizes are also fairly small generally somewhere between 11 and 13 inches what separates an ultrabook from something like an ultra portable is the fact that an ultrabook is really made to be a primary computer so it's going to have plenty of speed and plenty of power to do most any task now you will be a little bit shy on ports for the most part as they're very thin there's not a whole lot of room to add a lot but for the most part it will be just fine for most people of course since they're so thin in line the first thing that has to go is the optical drive well personally that's not a problem at all for me I can't remember the last time I used a CD or DVD or blu-ray if it is an issue for you you can easily get an external DVD burner you just toss it in your bag which is not a really big deal considering just how small thin and light an ultrabook really is the second thing that sets an ultrabook apart from other laptops is the fact that they pretty much all have a solid-state drive now a solid-state drive also known as an SSD is simply a collection of computer chips that serve as a hard drive very similar to a flash drive but of course much much faster in comparison most computers today have what's known as the mechanical hard drive and while there are some pros with is most notably the fact that you're going to have a lot more storage space than on SSD for the most part the stall state drive is just way better in a lot of different areas it's going to be a lot faster of course generally by 3 or 4 times depending on which solid-state drive you get it's also going to be a lot quieter since there are no moving parts there's nothing to make any noise and since there are no moving parts you're a lot less prone to getting something destroyed if you draw for shake your laptop so that's really nice if you're doing a lot of traveling whatever because it's very difficult to damage a chip you would really have to bust that pretty good they also put out less heat which is very important when you consider just how thin most books are and they take less power which can give you a bit more battery life my opinion once you get a solid-state drive you never want to go back now I did this allow ultrabooks between nice and thin nice and light but on top of that it gives them plenty speed play power to keep up with standard laptops the third thing that separates ultra books from other laptops is the speed and battery life in general when you look at something that's this then this portable it's either going to be very anemic and hardly have any power at all it's going to have better awful about 10 seconds of battery life the great thing is that these really is the case pretty much all ultra books come with either Intel Core i3 Core i5 or i7 ultra-low voltage processor this means you really can't have your cake and eat it too with battery life that can exceed five hours and the tiny thin chassis and with enough power to do some moderate tasks like web browsing and all that kind of stuff but on top of that you can also do some more heavy things such as gaming and even video editing as far as I'm concerned the only real downside to an ultrabook is the fact is they're fairly pricey however I do expect this to change as this year they're going to be a lot of new ultra ebooks and of course I'll be taking a look as many as I can next week at CES anyway guys I hope you enjoyed this little informational video as always if you have any feedback on the video or you want to see me cover something else next time be sure to leave it in the comment section below anyway guys if you enjoyed this video definitely be sure to leave it a thumbs up and if you want to see more videos like this be sure to subscribe