Our notebook computer used to be our second machine -- the one we'd take with us on the road, then stick in our desk drawer under our "real" computer when we got home. But now, they're our primary workhorses.

The Basics

Ultrabooks
"Thin and light" -- the guiding principle of mobile electronics makers as long as we can remember -- is currently driving all the innovation in the notebook PC market. The white hot category at the center is the so-called "ultrabook," amazingly light, super-slim laptops with features like new Intel processors, integrated graphics, and solid-state storage drives....