Need an ultrabook
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Macbook Air.
I'm not joking. The battery life is the best in it's class. I have a Gigabyte X11 which was a Carbon Fibre competitor to the MBA (it's lighter and thinner than the Air of the same year but has pretty much the same internal spec including CPU) and the battery life is dire on the X11. I'm lucky if I get 4 hours to a charge with moderate work. Whereas the MBA will get 8. Allegedly.
Not a problem if you can charge up on the go or during class of course. But when going thin and light, you're giving up battery space. I don't know what Apple and Intel did to tweak the power saving settings for the Air, but it worked.
I'm not joking. The battery life is the best in it's class. I have a Gigabyte X11 which was a Carbon Fibre competitor to the MBA (it's lighter and thinner than the Air of the same year but has pretty much the same internal spec including CPU) and the battery life is dire on the X11. I'm lucky if I get 4 hours to a charge with moderate work. Whereas the MBA will get 8. Allegedly.
Not a problem if you can charge up on the go or during class of course. But when going thin and light, you're giving up battery space. I don't know what Apple and Intel did to tweak the power saving settings for the Air, but it worked.
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+1 for macbook air although you may consider the hp ultrabooks too since i had one that was around 4 hours ish
But if you have the cash and student it is worth getting a mba since you get 3 years and discount
But if you have the cash and student it is worth getting a mba since you get 3 years and discount
Another +1 for the Macbook Air, it's a great piece of kit.
As battery life is a consideration im not sure there is anything that beats the Macbook.
Dell do some really nice looking ultrabooks but the reviews are a bit varied, seems there are some issues with some of the models.
Samsung also do some nice ultrabooks, as do Lenovo, Acer and Asus.
As battery life is a consideration im not sure there is anything that beats the Macbook.
Dell do some really nice looking ultrabooks but the reviews are a bit varied, seems there are some issues with some of the models.
Samsung also do some nice ultrabooks, as do Lenovo, Acer and Asus.
The trackpad is also glorious on Apple gear. The sentelic finger sensing touchpad which is in my X11, and also appears in Samsung and Asus ultrabooks (like the Zenbook) is horrendous under Windows and completely unusable under Linux. I use Linux on the x11 (it came with Windows 8) and I use a USB mouse with it so I don't have to use the trackpad, which I disable in settings.