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hey what's up guys mkbhd here and today are going to be talking about ultrabooks because to be totally honest ultrabooks are pretty awesome I can't even count on two hands how many world's thinnest ultrabooks we saw crowned at CES 2012 this year but if you know it an ultrabook is before watching this video if you know the definition of an ultrabook I dare you to leave it in a comment I mean obviously I can't verify they didn't watch this video first but uh let's go ahead and get started so there are certain things that make an ultrabook and that actually make it different from a netbook or a laptop or a notebook or other stuff like that in order to be an ultrabook you need to meet a certain set of specifications as defined by Intel who pretty much came up with the category as a sort of a marketing project to compete with the MacBook Air which incidentally isn't technically an ultrabook but we'll get into that in a second if it doesn't meet these specs it just isn't an ultrabook so besides their Intel processors there's a size requirement can't be fat ultrabooks with a 14 inch screen or larger it can be no more than 21 millimeters thick and an ultrabook that's 13 inches or smaller can be no more than 18 millimeters thick also to be in this Ultrabook category you have to have a battery life of at least 5 hours and you have to resume from hibernation in 7 seconds or less and those requirements can actually change as time goes on to keep them ahead of the curve and to keep them just as sexy as the newest MacBook Air there are no storage requirements right now but according to Wikipedia which is a reliable source teachers ahaha the next round of ultra books will be running mostly Ivy Bridge processors and will have a minimum of 16 gigs of storage is a MacBook Air an ultrabook that's a question we get a lot technically no because Apple doesn't used a little bit of proprietary software Intel requires called rapid start which is what helps them resume from sleep so fast but the MacBook Air resumes from sleep that fast anyway so I'd say it fits mostly all the specs to be an ultrabook close enough Apple close enough and also Google's Chromebook is this an ultrabook well no they're just a little bit a couple of millimeters too thick actually to be an ultrabook right now and also while Windows isn't a requirement these are running Chrome OS and they don't use Intel's rapid boot and they use Intel Atom processors so basically these fall into the netbook category not the Ultrabook category so there you have it those are ultrabooks pretty simple definition to be honest I'm really looking forward to the next generation of ultrabooks to see just how well they evolved if you have an ultrabook let me know which one you have because there aren't a lot of ultrabooks out right now so if i want to see if it meets the requirements and i'll definitely check it out give it a look now they didn't see my last video it's right there where we got busy with the Asus Zenbook ux301 which is one of the best ultra books out there pretty much a benchmark for what ultra ebooks should be in this generation so check that out if you haven't already seen it pretty short video I'm going on vacation next week so if you guys are ready to take a spring break vacation like I am enjoy the week off I'm going to be taking my duties and all sorts of things down to the South half of the United States for a week so either way I'll talk to you guys in the next video see you in about a week and I'll talk to you later you