Introducing Ultra-Thin Notebooks
The best ultra-thin notebooks have Intel Inside®.‡
About Ultra-Thin Notebooks
Only ultra-low-voltage Intel® Core™ processors deliver the performance and long battery life you need in the sleek designs you crave.
Why wait? Step into the future with an ultra-thin notebook.
Sleek new ultra-thin notebooks powered by the latest ultra-low voltage Intel® Core™ processors let you travel light and provide the performance you need for music, video, photos, and more. And thanks to optimized energy-efficient technology, they also enable longer battery life. Fast, sleek, smart—make sure your new ultra-thin notebook has Intel Inside®.
New ultra-thin design. Intel® performance.
When you choose to go ultra-thin, you can feel confident that you’re getting the performance you need. That’s because the best-performing ultra-thin notebooks have Intel Inside®, giving you the best of both form and function.
Energy-efficient technology extends battery life in ultra-thin notebooks
Intel® ultra-low voltage processors are optimized for battery life,‡ so you can stay unplugged longer and use your notebook on the go without having to search for power outlets.
Intel® technology helps enable the thinnest notebooks
Ultra-thin notebooks are the perfect balance of performance and style for mobile computing. Typically measuring less than 1.0 inches thin and weighing about one to two pounds less than standard notebooks, ultra-thin notebooks are effortless to carry on the go while still delivering the performance you need.
With your ultra-thin notebook, you’ll have the performance you need to run your favorite applications…
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Intel® Core™2 Duo processor
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Intel® Pentium® processor
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Convert standard definition videos for upload to your favorite video-sharing site‡ |
5 videos in 10 min. |
1 video in 10 min. |
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Prepare photos for upload to share online with friends and family‡ |
32 photos in 1 min. |
16 photos in 1 min. |
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Prepare MP3s for taking your music on the road‡ |
32 songs in 3 min. |
16 songs in 3 min. |
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Create a 5-minute HD videoΣ |
22 min. |
68 min. |
Performance tests were conducted using specific system configurations. For more information, please refer to www.intel.com/go/culvbenchmarkconfig.‡
While ultra-thin notebooks offer a balance of style and functionality, if you use your notebook to create lots of rich media content, play intensive games, or engage in heavy multitasking, check out these standard notebooks for the ultimate in mobile performance.
What makes Intel® ultra-low voltage processors unique?
Did you know that Intel® ultra-low voltage processors consume less power which, in turn, enables sleeker, ultra-thin notebooks? Traditional notebook processors have a 25 to 35 watt Thermal Design Point (TDP). That’s the amount of heat generated by the processor, and your PC offsets it with fans and other cooling components—so you can actually keep your notebook in your lap!
By contrast, Intel ultra-low voltage processors have a lower Thermal Design Point of 10 watts and don’t need the fans and cooling components required by traditional notebooks. Removing these components frees up space, and that’s how your notebook can get sleek and ultra thin.
Only Intel ultra-low voltage processors deliver this unique balance of performance and power consumption in the thinnest designs. These innovations translate into more options when it’s time to go shopping. So, whether you’re just getting started with mobile computing or are ready to upgrade an old system, there’s an Intel® processor that’s perfect for you. Now, how cool is that? Make sure your new ultra-thin notebook has Intel Inside®.
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‡1 The best ultra-thin notebooks have Intel Inside®. Get best-in-class performance to run all your favorite applications flawlessly with the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor. These claims are based on performance testing using SPECint*_rate_base2006 on a class of processors designed for use in ultra-thin laptops with a Thermal Design Point (TDP) of 10 Watts or less. The TDP is the maximum amount of heat a chip or a system is able to dissipate. For detailed results and more information go to www.intel.com/performance/mobile/ultra-thin/.
SPECint*_rate_base2006 and SPECfp*_rate_base2006 are capacity-based metrics used to measure throughput of a computer that is performing a number of tasks. This is achieved by running multiple copies of each benchmark simultaneously with the number of copies set to set to the number of logical hardware cores seen by the operating system. SPEC* CPU2006 provides a comparative measure of compute intensive performance across the widest practical range of hardware. The product consists of source code benchmarks that are developed from real user applications. These benchmarks depend on the processor, memory and compiler on the tested system.
SPEC, SPECint, SPECfp, SPECrate are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. For more information go to www.spec.org/spec/trademarks.html.
‡2 This claim is based on the MobileMark* 2007 benchmark on the Acer Timeline* 3810T and 3810TZ laptops. Battery life will vary based on your configuration. The MobileMark 2007 benchmark does not include DVD playback. For detailed results and more information go to www.intel.com/performance/mobile/ultra-thin/.
‡3 VirtualDub* 1.8.8 is a video capture/processing utility. It is streamlined for fast, linear operations over video and allows users to batch-process multiple tasks on multiple video files. DivX* 6.8.5 is a format for digital video. The workload for VirtualDub is a 66.2MB 110second MPEG2 video file in 720x480 resolution at 5Mbps. It is converted to DivX format with 720x480 resolution with a total size of ~10.3MB. Extrapolation is used to calculate the number of 5-minute videos you can prepare in 10 minutes.
‡4 Adobe Photoshop Lightroom* 2.3 is a photography application that lets you manage, adjust, and present a large amount of photographs. For this scenario Lightroom 2.3 is used to resize 125 ten-megapixel and 75 six-megapixel JPEG photos at 480x360 resolution for posting to Facebook* or viewing on portable devices such as an iPhone*. The photos are also used to create a personal HTML web gallery that can be published online. Extrapolation used to calculate the number of images you can prepare in 3 minutes for upload to Facebook.
‡5 Apple iTunes* 8.1 is a digital media application that can be used to manage digital music such as converting from one digital audio format to another. In this case, Apple iTunes is used to convert 61 minutes, 24 seconds of music from WAV to MP3 format with a bit rate of 160Kbps for listening on your Apple iPod*. Extrapolation used to calculate the number of 3-minute songs you can convert in 3 minutes.
Σ Pegasys TMPGEnc* 4.6 allows you to take almost any video file and encode it to your desired file format including DivX*, AVI, QuickTime*, MPEG 4-ISO, H.264, DVD-Video, DVD-VR, HDV camcorder, Blu-ray* disc, and much more. The input file for this workload is a 1-minute, 16-second, 29.97fps, 1920x1080 video clip with VBR encoding and a total size of about 1.12GB. The output is an HDV format MPEG file with 1920x1080 resolution, 29.97fps and 25000Kb/s CBR encoding. The extrapolation used calculates how long to create a 5-minute video.
‡6 Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel® products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, visit Intel® Performance Benchmark Limitations.