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This poll is missing an "I want one, but lack money" option.
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[sarcasm]I'm waiting for super-duper-nano-book[/sarcasm]
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I'll get one when someone else buys me one. 
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I am with you on this. 
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totally Agree 
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Can this be used for regular development purpose where bulky development environment can be installed?
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Yes
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Then it is worth considering as long as it does not heat up much. I like compact and efficient devices.
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I got the Asus ultrabook and it is excellent, I would not want it as my primary dev machine but as a traveller it is brilliant. It is faster than this crappy desktop in the office, I can live with the screen size!
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RAH
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For computer scientists, devs and IT guys ultrabook is synonymous to ultrauseless.
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Light and powerful? I travel a lot and need those two properties. Very useful little boxes.
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meta_berkut wrote: For computer scientists, devs and IT guys ultrabook is synonymous to ultrauseless.
I disagree, even though I don't buy one for myself in near future. It's good to have a lightweighted and powerful computer to carry to customers. If I need to demonstrate something or to develop on site, well that's a good solution.
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If you belong to one of the groups that I mentioned earlier then I stand corrected. Otherwise, your opinion is irrelevant. Recently I replaced my old laptop with Sony S series. It is not an ultrabook. However, it is not that heavy (2 kg) and much more powerfull than any ultrabook currently available on the market, and 12 hours of life with an extended battery. I was looking for something that can support wide range of tasks (working with office suites, carrying around at conferences, developing software, CPU/GPU intensive analysis of data that can last for hours, or even gaming). Sony S series was exactly what I needed, and there are plenty of lightweight laptops that are similar to Sony S series. So I just cant comprehend why would someone (from three groups mentioned previously) would choose an ultrabook. Surely, you can sacrifice little weight for more versatility.
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meta_berkut wrote: If you belong to one of the groups that I mentioned earlier then I stand corrected.
Well, I'm a Software Developer and IT-Consultant.
But of course there are other solutions, too. I just want to state, that's not totally useless. But, at the moment it's to expensive to be a good solution.
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I stand corrected. 
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If it does not fit in my pocket, it's too big. If I have to carry it in a laptop bag, I want the screen to be large and I don't care about weight.
Now, if you had a samsung note II with a windows 8 running on it.. we'd have something
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To be honest, these are exactly what I have been looking for. I'm a software dev, consultant, and speaker. An ultrabook is perfect for me. It is powerful enough that it is a serious development machine (at least as long as you get the ones with a big SSD). While the screen size is on the small side for head-down development, you can use a second monitor (and I'm already doing this) or even two more monitors (using a USB adapter - I have one for this purpose).
The great thing, though, is how easy it is to then take your entire development machine (minus the monitors) on the road. For so long, laptops have been getting bigger and heavier. When you are on the go a lot, that is a problem. I've had shoulder problem because I carried my laptop around too much. With an ultrabook, I can walk around all day with it without difficulty. When you are visiting customers, showing off alpha builds of new products, and doing remote demos, this is a big deal.
As a speaker, having a full dev machine with the power of a desktop when you are on stage is great. I can use my presentation VM for most of the presentation, but if I want to drop into my dev machine to show off a piece, I know I have the power to switch around without issue. After my presentation, I can still walk around the conference or event with my laptop without a problem.
I know that ultrabooks aren't for everyone. However, that doesn't mean that they aren't for anyone. Honestly, I have been waiting for years for them to come out. As soon as Windows 8 comes out and the new crop of ultrabooks with touch screens gets released, I'll be spending the $1,500 on a nice one. That is a lot less than I spent on my Macbook Pro, and I have to run all of my dev work on a VM with that because I develop in Visual Studio and Microsoft SQL Server.
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Some good points for me to think about. Thanks for the reply.
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Bollocks and utter crap.
I had a first gen, sold that to get a 2nd gen, and now have a third gen. My 2nd gen Toshiba is my primary work machine at home and while travelling, and the 3rd gen I know have blows my toshiba out of the water in terms of power.
I thought the touchscreen was a gimmick and now it bugs me that other laptops don't have it. I thought the sensors were a gimmick and now I'm cranky that not more apps are making use of them.
I'm honestly baffled you'd make such a statement, but how about you take our challenge and write an app that, in whatever way you wish, takes advantage of the Ultrabook capabilities and we'll send you an Ultrabook[^] so you can decide yourself.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote:
It almost feels like you are just trolling around to get more attention to the ultrabook challenge.
Chris Maunder wrote: I had a first gen, sold that to get a 2nd gen, and now have a third gen. My 2nd gen Toshiba is my primary work machine at home and while travelling, and the 3rd gen I know have blows my toshiba out of the water in terms of power.
Assuming that you are talking about ultrabooks here, you are comparing lower generation ultabook with a higher generation ultrabook. And somehow I should reach a conclusion that ultrabooks are better bargain than lightweight laptops? I sense a logical fallacy here.
Ok lets make some reasonable comparisons between ultrabooks and lightweight laptops. Recently I bought Sony VAIO S series (small and lightweight laptop). I hostly considered buying an ultrabook, but ended up having strong opinion agains ultrabook, and here is why:
1. CPU speed and RAM size: In terms of these two spec, most ultrabooks will give less for the same price than lightweight laptops, and even if you are willing to pay a lot, I doubt that there are ultrabooks that can provide more CPU power and RAM size than lightweight laptops will.
2. Number of USB ports: How many times you wished you had one more USB port? You get even less USB ports with ultrabooks than with ordinary laptops.
3. Ethernet card: Many ultrabooks do not have ethernet card. Believe me or not, but people still prefer ethernet connection to Wi-Fi. I have yet to meet anyone who will come to office and say "No, I will just keep using wi-fi". Given a choice they always choose ethernet connection.
4. Dedicated graphics card: Most ulltrabooks have onboard graphics card, and best you can get currently is HD4000. That is very low end graphics card, and basically useless for someone who does any kind of modern CGI. My VAIO, on the other hand, has dedicated graphics card with which I am very much satisfied.
5. Disk drive: With ultrabooks you have no choice but to have SSD. With lightweight laptops you have a choice between SSD and HDD . You know, many people need a disk with more capacity than more speed. Do you know how much data a single FMRI experiment can generate? Well, lets just say that dozen of those experiments can fill up an entire SSD on ultrabook.
6. CD-ROM: Personally, I can't remember the last time I would choose to use CD. However, there are many occasions when I need a CD-ROM. You know the kind of situations where you are on the conference and all the proceedings are on CD, or how about the occasion where you attend a talk introducing a new software and its sample is distributed on CD?
7. Touchscreens: they are just gimmicky. For ages there were touchscreen monitors available for desktop computers. Somehow, they never became popular so far, and I do not think they will become popular with ultrabooks. Simply because touchscreen has very limited functionality comparing to mouse and keyboard. Honestly, I prefer my screen to be clean. It is easier to read a source code that way.
So tell me again why I should have bought an ultrabook instead of Sony VAIO S series? And this time without raging, please.
Best,
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meta_berkut wrote: So tell me again why I should have bought an ultrabook instead of Sony VAIO S series? And this time without raging, please
Actually, I think the initial point is that you said they were ultrauseless. It was that rather extreme generalisation that I thought was a little wild and crazy.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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The next Master Chef could be based on Ultrabooks burning hot for cooking... 
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