Comments on: What’s On Your Ultrabook?

By: cadder

cadder — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:07:46 +0000

I have a Samsung 530u4c-s06 core i7 w/ 6gb of ram, ssd, hd4000 w/ NVidia gt620m and it’s quite choppy using civil3d 2011 (sucks when using dedicated gfx maybe driver issue), plain AutoCAD on the other hand performs well considering it’s just an ultrabook

By: intercad melbourne

intercad melbourne — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:09:52 +0000

What CAD software or combination of software is best for the process of designing to eventually manufacturing. I’m new at CAD I have solid works 2010 but I have been reading that CATIA or Rhino might be better for Auto and Aviation. Any help is appreciated.

By: Soren Porskrog

Soren Porskrog — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:15:06 +0000

I am the very happy owner of a Samsung 9 Series 900X3D. Yes Chippy I’ve gone from my HP Notebook to this Ultrabook. As consultant and PhD student I use some fairly heavy software applications in addition to the office applications. My most used software is:
- Office Pro 2010 (primarily Word, OneNote, PowerPoint)
- Nuance DPF Converter Pro (converting documents to PDF)
- PDF XChange Viewer (annotation)
- Nuance Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 (transcription software)
- Mendeley (reference library)
- MindJet’s MindManager (for organising thoughts)
- QSR NVivo (software for qualitative research)
- SPSS (software for quants research)
- Copernic Desktop Search Pro
- PrepLit (keyword search in PDF files)
- Skype

I thought it would be a problem with the limited 128 GBSSD space. But no problem even though I hold more than 2000 articles in my library and a fair number of audio files from interviews. Though, I do not have any videos or photos on my new Ultrabook. I store these file on a server.

By: me

me — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:28:31 +0000

That’s unfortunate. If it uses an Intel WiFi chip then there’s a very good chance connecting to 802.11n networks will result in the long standing (years now) stability issues. 802.11a/b/g networks work fine. 802.11n isn’t a draft standard anymore and I think it’s time Intel should make it work properly under Linux.

By: beemer

beemer — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:24:57 +0000

I’ve got a Folio 13 two motnhs ago. With a special promotion and the 200€ rebate in Spain it has cost 500€ (without tax).

I get easily five hours from its battery developing Android software while connected with a3G USB modem, a bluetooth mouse and a Android phone via USB. Fantastic!

So my software is several utilities, office 2007 and Eclipse with all the Android SDK, libraries, ant, etc. This takes haslf of the SSD space.

In the remaining 64GB I’ve a Ubuntu Linux vmware virtual machine for those things linux does better, a MacOS Vrtual machine for some iOS developing and some music and videos.

I’m very happy with this ultrabook because what I need is battery, cpu power (not GPU power) a good jeyboard and portability.

Waht is bad?: the touchpanel, the buttons are to hard to press.

By: Leekid

Leekid — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:50:26 +0000

I dont know the battery life on Win7, since I erased it when I got the machine. The average battery life I usually notice is about 5/6 hours (wifi activated, surfing).I don’t use hibernation, but no problem with sleep/unsleep.
About the Fn keys, all don’t work, but I don’t care, the only ones I use work (screen brightness and volume up/down). I didn’t take time to make the other work, since I don’t care
Never noticed any problem with the wifi connection.

By: schmo

schmo — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 01:27:41 +0000

How’s the battery life compared to Windows 7? Do all the Fn keys work? Does suspend/resume work consistently? Do you get stable 802.11n connections?

I really wish this site puts some effort into Linux targeted articles. I know Chippy says he gets sponsored by Intel every now and then but I don’t think he has any partnerships with Microsoft.

By: Leekid

Leekid — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:05:17 +0000

Happy owner of a Z830-10F (Core I5), I installed the latest Ubuntu (12.04) with some optimisation and personnalisation. My main usage is :
-web surfing and website management (firefox and chrome)
-programming (Eclipse, various HTML, XML or text editors)
-audio live streaming (Butt or IDJC)
-audio editing (Audacity)
-picture editing and creation (The Gimp)
-chatting (X-Chat, Emesene)
-File transfer (Filezilla)
-Watching videos (VLC)
-Office works (Libre Office)

For those jobs, my ultrabook is perfect

By: kdas

kdas — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:18:05 +0000

Not a whole lot of ultrabook owners on an ultrabook site? Are sales that low?

Anyway, since these ultrabooks don’t have an extremely slow Atom CPU, I’m pretty sure people are just going to treat them as any other notebook. At least that’s how I plan on using one when there’s finally an ultrabook I would buy. Maybe next year.

There are probably more differences in software and usage among sizes (ie. 11.6″ vs 14″) than between “notebook” and “ultrabook.”

By: Konradus

Konradus — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:06:19 +0000

I dont have an ultrabook yet, but I plan to replace my 5 year old 14″ laptop with an 13″ ultrabook. I need to be able to use Adobe programs and a bit of CAD (Pro Engineer) and usual surfing and wordprocessing.

Therefore I am interested in experiences using ultrabooks as a desktop replacement for my exact purposes. Especially how well it performs with HD4000 ivy bridge in CAD.

It will no doubt be better than what I use right now anyway, probably double performance and half the weight.

Thank you for this informative site