What better time to test the Sensors in this Intel Ultrabook prototype then while in the air? I'm on a flight right now from Krakow, Poland to Munich, Germany, and I realized this was the perfect time to bring out this little 3 pound wonder. Even better because I received an email just a few days before with updated Sensor Firmware for this device.
Since that time I've been using this Ultrabook almost exclusively as my main machine, even preferring it over my giant (but super powerful) Lenovo W520. I've always been one to prefer the heavier laptop over a lighter one as long as it's got the power I need. However the i7-3667 Ivy Bridge in this system has been just fine for everything I could throw at it - even running Windows 7 and Ubuntu in a Hyper-V virtual machine while running Visual Studio 2012 under Windows 8. My only real complain so far has been that this model I was provided for review purposes has only 4 gigs of RAM and not 8 or 12. I feel like 4gigs is a real minimum for the kinds of computing I'm doing. That said, the 160 gig Intel SSD has been so fast that I haven't really noticed the lack of memory except when pushing two VMs really hard.
Anyway, I wanted to focus on the sensors as this prototype has all the possible sensors an Ultrabook can have, the most initially interesting sensor to me being the GPS and Location Services.
Read the complete review on my blog.
