Ultrabook

Ultrabook is a trademark of Intel for very thin and light notebooks with Intel processors. To be allowed to bear the name, the device must meet a number of requirements. These include a long battery life, acceptable performance and tablet computer-like properties such as rapid resume from standby.

Intel announced the ultrabook line on at Computex 2011 and expected for the end of 2012 a market share of 40 % of the laptop market.

  • 2.1 First stage
  • 2.2 Second stage

Hardware Requirements

The introduction of Ultrabooks is to take place in three stages, and in each case coincide with the introduction of low- voltage processors Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge and Haswell. Intel's goal is to achieve a share of Ultrabooks at the entire notebook market of 40 % by 2012 was not achieved until the introduction of the third stage. The market share is estimated to have the end of 2012 at about 20 percent.

Since CES 2013, there are new requirements to ensure that producers entitled to use the Ultrabook - use. These would be now that wireless display and a touch screen must belong to the basic equipment.

First stage (4th quarter 2011)

  • Maximum 21 mm thick
  • Long battery life of at least 5 hours (at low load )
  • Mainstream prices - under $ 1,000 without VAT for the entry models
  • Low- voltage processors Sandy Bridge with 17 Watt TDP Intel Core i5- 2467M (1.6 GHz)
  • Intel Core i5- 2557M ( 1.7 GHz)
  • Intel Core i7- 2637M ( 1.7 GHz)
  • Intel Core i7- 2677M (1.8 GHz)

Second stage ( 2012)

  • Low-voltage (approx. 17 W TDP) Intel Ivy Bridge processors with 30 % more graphics performance and 20 % higher main processor performance over Sandy Bridge
  • USB 3.0 or Thunderbolt PCI Express 3.0

Third stage (2013 )

  • Low Voltage Haswell processors with a TDP of 15 W
  • New, advanced system power management system, which will save half of the energy compared to the Sandy Bridge chips by 2011
  • Battery life: 6 hours at full HD video playback and 9 hours in Windows 8 idle
  • Other features: Touch screen mandatory, Intel Wireless Display ( WiDi ) mandatory, voice control - to a suitable for speech inputs Two -way microphone must be installed, at least one USB 3.0 port

List published and announced models

First stage

Second stage

Many of the first-stage models appear with modified specifications as ultrabooks the second stage ( ie with Core i processor and a third-generation chipset, which then also USB 3.0 or Thunderbolt support ). The following is a ( non-exhaustive ) list of ultrabooks (not only exclusive) correspond to the second stage.

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