Really Light and Small Laptops

Wed Apr 9

Ultra Portable Laptops - Really Small Ones!

Ultra Portable laptop is one of the smallest laptops in the laptop category, although definately not the cheapest. One can say that this portable laptop is an ideal sized small laptop for students and frequent travelers. When a person selects an ultra portable laptop it is always important for him or her to make sure that they get the nearly all the RAM’s as possible, so that when they want to connect external peripherals and load various programs. Usually, RAM is not included to the overall weight of the portable laptop however; the user will be pleased to have more RAM along with a few software programs that are available in the market. This ultra portable laptop weighs only 4 pounds and sometimes less than that

Some of the important features of an ultra portable laptop include: -

  • These portable laptops are easy to handle when traveling and can be conveniently used without difficulty.
  • It is weightless because they are smaller in size; it also has smaller keyboards, smaller hard drives and does not include incorporated optical drives.


Some of its specifications of the ultra portable laptop includes: -

  • Dimensions – The average dimension of the portable laptop is around 11.3 in width, 7.7 in diameter and 1.0 in height.
  • Camera - Sometimes the need for digital photography is too great not tobe without a digital camera in your laptop.
  • Display - Its screen display is around 14 inches and diagonal in shape.
  • Processor – It is 1.1 GHz to 1.5 GHz which is usually slower with the low voltage processors.
  • Connections and Ports – Most of the portable laptops have two USB, one microphone or headphone but has no memory card reader.
  • Optical Drive and Hard Drive – This ranges from 30 GB to 80 GB. It does not have any internal optical drive; however there are few models which have detachable optical drive, similar to these.
  • Optical Connections and Networking Alternatives – Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, modem, LAN and WWAN that increases overall cost of the laptop.