By now you ’re possibly sick of hearing about ultrabooks , the best chance Windows swindle have to get up to Apple laptops in purpose , usableness , build tone , and ecumenical upright - and - wantable - product - cape . Do n’t be . What ’s come from personal computer manufacturer in 2012 is n’t the inevitable , drear sameness that ’s made laptops so boring for the last decennium . In fact , it ’s the opposite .
If what we ’ve seenso far this yearis any indication , the notebook of the good - future spirit good and serious-minded and true . The excogitation elements are cheer . The features are utile . And most importantly : They do n’t just imitate , they improve . Which means it ’s finally time to get emotional about PCs again .
The roll call of middle - catching ultrabooks , ones we ’d in reality buy tomorrow , is much longer than we had expect : the Dell XPS 13 , the Lenovo Yoga , Samsung ’s updated Series 9 , the HP Spectre , and maybe Vizio ’s fiddling monstrosity . But just revolve through the estimable machines sort of misses what ’s up with ultrabooks generally . It ’s not just that they ’re getting better ; it ’s that they ’re at the stage where their design , quality , performance and innovation in these things , as a whole , are on par with Apple . That has n’t been the casing in a farsighted time .
subject in decimal point : Lenovo ’s pivot Yoga tablet / laptop hybrid . The U300s was a really , really nice machine , and Lenovo could have absolutely run out a moxie refresh , improved this spec or that , and rested on the promise of Windows 8 driving sales . The Yoga is the exact diametrical approach . Yeah , it ’s means gimmicky , but the sort of gimmicky that ’s based on real pauperization and usefulness , given Metro ’s touch - friendly implementation . Stuff like that , or the waken - for - email office on Dell ’s XPS 13 , is the kind of differentiation from Apple that Windows users have been famish for .
And these are n’t even the good laptops we ’ll see this class , not by a farseeing shot . Intel ’s Ivy Bridge platform ( you know , the one that will boost integrated graphic performance and better barrage fire life ) will be inside most of these bad boys by this summer . That ’s when the real fun start .
The other major strategic alteration , at least for now , is that most company are n’t spamming us with a long ton of model . They ’re mostly just giving you one or two screen sizes , and add customization options . Ultrabooks have devote laptop shaper an excuse to focus on one motorcar at a time , instead of having to spread attention around on 20 different models that no one ever need for . Which is , like , really smashing .
Across the class , build up quality is to the point that the old putdown “ MacBook Air clone”—Samsung ’s Series 9 was n’t one last year , but totally is this time around — is maybe a little more complimentary than you ’d think . Because , umm , some of them might have actually leapfrog Apple ’s offering . The new Series 9 , for illustration , feels almost exactly like the MacBook Air in materials and solidity , but it ’s got a matte screen and come in black ( ! ) . The XPS keeps your reproductives entire with its high temperature - forfend atomic number 6 fiber ass . And the ALL GLASS HP Spectre might not be your figure nirvana , but hatful of the Beats - loving populace will be delighted with it . It ’s one affair to simulate a MacBook and poop out a junkish half - criterion ; it ’s another to adopt almost everything secure and add even more desirable features to it .
Yeah , there were some clunkers , like LG ’s guys - this - really - needs - to - be - better Z330 , but they were mostly from first timers instruct the lessons that everyone else seems to be getting right this generation . The companies that figured thing out last class are clear authentically terrific - looking car . And for the first time in a farsighted time , Windows laptop are more exciting than Macs .
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