{"id":67204,"date":"2012-12-29T10:28:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T08:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=67204"},"modified":"2012-12-29T10:33:22","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T08:33:22","slug":"top-5-ultrabooks-techradar-and-t3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/67204-top-5-ultrabooks-techradar-and-t3.html","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Ultrabooks: Techradar and T3"},"content":{"rendered":"

As happens around Christmas time, tech sites the world released their \u201cbest of\u201d and \u201choliday buy\u201d lists, advising shoppers of the best way to spend their hard-earned bonuses on gadgetry.<\/p>\n

TechRadar and T3 both put together solid lists of the so-called \u201cbest\u201d ultrabooks of 2012 and a cross-referencing of the two line-ups yielded five PCs the two agreed on.<\/p>\n

Neither publication included Apple laptops in their lists, explaining that Ultrabooks are a breed of laptops that compete with the likes of the MacBook Air, but aren\u2019t made by Apple.<\/p>\n

The definition of the term \u201cultrabook\u201d can be contentious as one way to view it is the proper noun \u201cUltrabook\u201d as defined by Intel, for which the chip giant has applied to register as a trademark.<\/p>\n

Another definition uses the term as a common noun to describe notebooks with 11-inch to 14-inch displays that are lightweight, yet powerful.<\/p>\n

Regardless of the definition you prefer, the MacBook Air is included in ultrabook lists, whether implicitly as the device everyone is competing with, or explicitly as just another contender.<\/p>\n

MacBook Air 11-inch and 13-inch<\/h3>\n
\"MacBook

MacBook Air 11-inch and 13-inch<\/p><\/div>\n

The five Ultrabooks explicitly listed by both TechRadar and T3 follow.<\/p>\n

HP Spectre XT TouchSmart<\/h3>\n
\"HP

HP TouchSmart Spectre XT<\/p><\/div>\n

Asus Zenbook UX32A<\/h3>\n
\"Asus

Asus Zenbook US32A<\/p><\/div>\n

Toshiba Portege Z930<\/h3>\n
\"Toshiba

Toshiba Portege Z930<\/p><\/div>\n

Dell XPS 13<\/h3>\n
\"Dell

Dell XPS 13<\/p><\/div>\n

Lenovo Thinkpad X1<\/h3>\n
\"Lenovo

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch<\/p><\/div>\n

Related articles<\/h3>\n

Ultrabook pricing comparison<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Top Ultrabooks of 2012<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook laptop review<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These are the five top Ultrabooks that two top tech sites could agree on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":43379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[605,947,11233,35,2012,1525,2274,7525,17512,1527,733],"class_list":["post-67204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-apple","tag-asus","tag-dell-xps-13","tag-headline","tag-hp","tag-lenovo","tag-macbook-air","tag-t3","tag-techradar","tag-thinkpad-x1","tag-toshiba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67596,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67204\/revisions\/67596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}