Five latest Ultrabooks to hit the Indian market

The notebook market has seen waves of development in the past few years with the netbook phenomenon. Now, it appears that the time for Ultrabooks has arrived. Netbooks were all about impressive battery life, decent amount of performance and very affordable pricing. Ultrabooks are aimed at being affordable, too, offer good battery life as well as very good performance, but all at a $1000 price point - at least, that’s what Intel is aiming for.

Ultrabooks are supposed to be slim and light-weight - very much like an Apple MacBook Air. Now, if you want one in India, it’s not like every brand has a couple of them. A few of them have just started entering the market and we’ve compiled a list of them for you to choose from.

Samsung Series 5 Ultra Notebooks

Samsung's new Series 5 line of Ultra Notebooks

The Samsung Series Ultra Notebooks (or Ultrabooks as Intel likes to call them) are the latest to be launched and are powered by Core i5 processors. In fact, these were launched a few days back. The Ultrabooks are available in 13 and 14-inch models,, which means they’re very portable. The unique feature of the 14-inch model is the integrated DVD drive and memory card. Samsung claims this to be one of a kind, because of the space constraints - no manufacturer integrated an optical drive in their Ultrabooks. This was also the case with netbooks.

The larger 14-inch model comes with a 1TB drive, while the 13-inch one sells with a 500GB drive. Of course, users have the option of choosing SSDs over hard drives on the 13-inch model - for this reason, there are 128GB and 256GB  options available. Users who go in for the 14-inch model can also opt for a Radeon HD7550M, part of the new Radeon HD7000 series of GPUs. The 13-inch model with all the features and components fit in weighs around 1.42kg, while the fully spec’d 14-inch model weighs around 1.84 kg. The standard models of the 13-inch and 14-inch Series 5 Ultra Notebooks sell for Rs. 48,990 and Rs. 54,390 respectively.

Wipro Aero e.go Ultra

The Indian Ultrabook - Wipro e.go Ultra

One of the other recent launches was Wipro e.go Ultra - an Ultrabook from the Indian PC manufacturer. The e.go Ultra has a 14-inch display like most of the Ultrabooks being sold these days. It’s also got the Intel Core i line of processors, 4GB of memory and 500GB of hard drive space onboard them. Windows 7 is a standard feature for the new Aero Ultrabook. Pricing is a sensitive thing for the Indian market, and Wipro is selling the Aero e.go Ultra between Rs.39,000 and Rs.49,000.