The Future of Laptops

One of the many recent computing trends has been the use of tablets. There have been many reasons for the tablet’s rise in popularity. They are highly mobile, light weight and can be integrated into our lives with relative ease. The boot up time of these computers is almost instantaneous, which means no staring at the loading screen while you wait to access email or other services. As convenient as these devices are, they don’t have many of the features that traditional lap tops do. Therefore they arguably pose little threat to the laptop industry and are in a class of their own.

In order to bring the power of a laptop computer into today’s market which demands mobility and speed, a different class of laptop has emerged called the Ultrabook. These machines are lightweight and durable thanks to the fact that they don’t use Hard Disk Drives (HDD) and other components that traditional laptops do. The majority of Ultrabooks utilize what are called Solid State Drives (SSD) that have no moving parts and are not only much smaller, but also last much longer. In addition, Ultra books use lower power processors that can boot up almost instantaneously, much like tablets.

One of the key differences between the Ultrabook and the laptop is the fact that almost no Ultrabooks have optical disk drives. The use of CD’s to transfer data or to install programs is becoming unnecessary to many users, as most of these can be accessed via the cloud. By doing away with the disk drive all together, Ultrabooks have even less moving parts to fail making it smaller and lighter in weight.  

With the ease of use, convenience and durability, the Ultrabook can easily become the future standard of laptops.