<div dir="ltr"> Until recently, I had been in the market for a ultra-portable computer, a long time. Besides the Lenovos, I had my eye on Zareason's (<a href="http://zareason.com/shop/UltraLap-430.html">http://zareason.com/shop/UltraLap-430.html</a>). Eventually, I decided that I could get away with an Android Tablet (Asus Transformer TF300). It was a third cheaper than the ultrabooks I was looking at. There are apps that will do most of what I need, when I'm out and about. But since I've bought it, I have been disappointed at almost every turn. It is a giant phone, without the usefulness of being able to call someone. Oddly enough, one of my biggest complaints is the awkward copy-n-paste interface. Besides it taking 10+ seconds to copy anything, if you try to copy more than a sentence the selector starts jumping around on you. Anyway... I just wanted to chime in to say, know what you are getting into if you start getting tempted by the sexiness of the tablets. </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Taylor Burke <<a href="mailto:jburke@liquidweb.com" target="_blank">jburke@liquidweb.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> For a "power" machine I have my custom desktop and current laptop (Asus G74SX)- the laptop has an i7-2670QM and the desktop has an i7-3770k, so right now I'm not looking so much for "power" as I am portability since the laptop damn near weighs ten pounds, and one of the reasons I've been looking at Ultrabooks is because of how thin and lightweight they are. It's something I'd like to be able to cart around without feeling like I'm back in high school. - Taylor <div>On 13-02-06 05:52 PM, Richard Houser wrote: </div> <blockquote type="cite"> I personally stick with the professional class laptops based on msi, asus, sager, etc. It's a price premium, but money well spent if you spend a large amount of time on the machine or need a lot of horsepower. Check out sites like <a href="http://powernotebooks.com" target="_blank">powernotebooks.com</a>, but read up on Optimus first. The next closest tier is probably something like the Lenovo lines. I need a real notebook, so can't speak much about the ultralights. <div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 6, 2013 1:59 PM, "Clay Dowling" <<a href="mailto:clay@lazarusid.com" target="_blank">clay@lazarusid.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On 02/06/2013 01:56 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> My work laptop is an ultrabook, a Dell XPS-13, running Fedora 18 (x86_64). There's finally a kernel in testing that'll support the multitouch trackpad, otherwise the system runs fine. It's quite light, has a 256G SSD in it, integrated wireless and bluetooth. The CPU is a Core i7-2637M, dual-core. Display is 1366x768 (blah) but looks good. Ubuntu had support for it earlier, since they worked directly with Dell and the parts vendors to get drivers working. The XPS-13 is the Linux "Developer Edition" (<a href="http://content.dell.com/us/en/gen/d/campaigns/xps-linux-laptop" target="_blank">http://content.dell.com/us/en/gen/d/campaigns/xps-linux-laptop</a>). I like it. A lot of people just assume it's a MacBook Air, due to the way it looks. It's nice to be able to buy a laptop and not pay the "Microsoft tax", although I suspect that you're not paying any less than the people buying it with MS preinstalled. </blockquote> You're paying slightly more, or were when it first came out. I seriously considered it, because it was announced just slightly before I purchased the Latitude. And it wasn't my money, so I didn't care about the extra $50, which still put it well below my budget. One thing to consider is how much memory the motherboard can handle. I bought my laptop because it could take 16GB of RAM. That might seem obscenely huge, but at times I will need to run several rather greedy virtual machines on it. 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