Ultrabook computers are the newest and most awesome computers yet. Mainly due to Intel's advances in processor technology, Ultrabooks are fast, have great graphics and are amazingly thin and light.

Most Ultrabooks weigh under 3 pounds and are close to 1/2 inch in thickness. They all have beautiful displays and are more than capable of running Microsoft Office and Adobe Design programs.

This is a category where the computers from manufacturers such as HP, Asus, Acer, and Samsung are universally sleek and classy. Their chassis's are primarily made out of magnesium alloy so that although they are very thin, they also feel solid.

Ultrabooks use one of Intel's newest processors. The lower priced ones are outfitted wit the second generation Intel Core i5, while the more expensive models feature the blazingly fast Intel Core i7 processor. Intel has also built impressive graphics processing into these chips and Ultrabooks benefit from bright and sharp screens.Even though Ultrabooks are so svelte, many of their manufacturers have managed to include impressive sound for such a small package as well.

Reviewers have been quite blown away by the performance of these laptops, in part due to the fact that most of them make use of SSDs (solid state drives) which are much faster than conventional mechanical hard drives. Windows boot times have been quite impressive, with many models capable of starting up in as little as 30 seconds and some even less. Their ability to resume from a sleep state in only several seconds also makes them eminently usable.

The other feature that makes Ultrabooks so popular is that they possess great battery life, again due to the energy saving features of the Intel Core processors. Most of these mobile computers have a battery life in excess of 5 hours and many of them can fully recharge in half that time.

This is an exciting time of technological breakthroughs and Ultrabook computers are benefiting from the most advanced of them.