Ultrabook: Size Does Matter

For quite a while, I simply don't get why the standard screen size for a notebook is 15.6", as I find that it is simply too large, and it becomes more of a desktop that folds, rather than a mobile computing device.  For the record, I currently use an 11.6", a 12.1", a 14" and a 15.6" notebook.

Care to guess which one gets the most use?  For a while, the 14 incher has by far gotten the most use.  I find that it has most of the real estate of the larger 15.6", and at the same time is considerably more portable.  I have recommended the 14" size to several folks and they invariably love it, and wonder why there are not more models made at that size.

So now, Intel has been pushing the ultrabooks, which promise a thinner, more portable notebook computer, and which will hopefully compete better with tablet computers, especially the iPad.  The news item for today is that it looks like all the ultrabooks on the drawing board are either the 13.3" or the 14.1" size.

However, let us hope that they also do make an ultrabook in an 11.6" size.  I have a CULV in that exact size, and it is ideally portable to the point that I traveled with it cross country, and would do it again without a second thought.  The smaller sizes are also usually less expensive, and the major stumbling block so far to the ultrabook has been that they will probably command too much of a premium.

See the models to be introduced here