News - HP launches its first Ultrabook, calls it the Folio 13

[HEXUS]

Designed for business users, but ideal for just about anyone?

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[nichomach]

"13.3in BrightView display with 1,366x768 resolution" Bah. Humbug. More crappy television resolutions. They could have at least gone 1600x900.

[Repressor]

^ This is incredibly annoying.

You need around 1000 vertical pixels to do anything reasonably productively. I'd love to see a return to 15" laptops with 1920x1200 screens. It's really the only thing putting me off buying a laptop/tablet soon...

[digit]

I don't know really if I agree, my HP Probook has the same resolution and I don't have any problems being productive and I use mine both in the office, in PABX rooms and at customer sites. Does me just fine, I think a bigger resolution is more suitable on a bigger display.

[this_is_gav]

Does me just fine, I think a bigger resolution is more suitable on a bigger display.

It's not more pixels as such, more so the way they are arranged - the vast majority of users need/want more vertical pixels, not less. 1280x800 would be OK on a laptop of this size.

[CK_1985]

Have to agree that 768 vertical pixels is extremely limiting in terms of productivity. Had to resort to moving my taskbar to the side on my laptop just to get a few extra vertical pixels - which is annoying since a surprising number of programs (most notably iTunes) refuse to acknowledge that the taskbar could possibly be anywhere other than at the bottom of the screen.

Anyway, back on topic, this is a really good-looking laptop with a nice spec and (assuming there's not too much dollar-to-pound conversion creativity) a sharp price. I initially had a very 'meh' reaction to the whole ultrabook 'brand' concept, but it looks like it's going to give us some nice hardware at good prices so why complain?

[Denis_iii]

+1 on the res, should be at min the same as the Asus Zenbook.

What added security does the TPM provide?

[bobharvey]

I have to agree about the vertical pixel count, its nowhere near enough.