Ultrabooks Get a Reality Check in Business Acceptance Discussion

The concept of a thinner, lighter and more powerful notebook may seem like a good idea, but reality has a way of changing even the best plans.

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I'll give you thinner, and maybe lighter (some of the time), but compared to a standard business ultraportable like the X230, ultrabooks have:
-MUCH lower battery life, mostly without ANY battery life extension options (extended batteries, easily rereplaceable batteries, slice batteries, etc)
-Worse performance
-Worse ergonomics
-Not all the standard required ports without using dongles
-Higher pricetags (for high end ones more comparable with X230/2570p/etc)

No wonder, they haven't taken off in business. Most of the time, they are simply less useful, more expensive machines.

 

I'm sure that the current price differential is one factor that is suppressing overall demand and business purchasing departments will need a lot of convincing about the benefit of paying more money for less computer. I also suspect that some business customers already had their ultrabook-type computers (made by that company with a fruity name) before the current crop of ultrabooks arrived.

For myself, as chief executive / chief purchasing officer / sole worker, I've already gone down the ultrabook route and don't plan to look back. My current machine, complete with PSU, weighs less than the bag provided for the last company-provided computer I had (albeit some years ago).

John

 

It just take time to adapt, I seen some professors actually upgrade to ultrabooks gradually.
However, no one/business is goona upgrade to thin and light just because, then dump their not really old computer.

 

Said ultrabooks made by FruityCo aren't standard issue notebooks though. I sure that there are users in businesses that will get ultrabooks, I just have a hard time seeing them becoming anywhere close to replacing regular notebooks as standard issue machines any time soon, instead of something that users with above a certain pay grade are able to ask for.

Personally, unless Haswell works a miracle, I'm probably going to end up buying the successor to the X230 rather than the successor to the X1 Carbon.