Typically Dell is locked arm in arm with Intel many steps of the way. When Ultrabooks were first introduced in July, Dell was somewhat silent on their intentions.

I don’t make that statement lightly as my family is the owner of three MacBooks and I do like them a lot.

I have to say, I am very impressed and believe they have a winner here that could take some business from Apple. Does this sound a bit like a MacBook Air? This is what I thought about the entire category until Dell lent me their Ultrabook, the Dell XPS 13, for a few days. If you want to see the details on what constitutes an Ultrabook, let me direct you to an article I wrote in Forbes yesterday. Launched at Computex 2011, Ultrabooks are designed to be very thin and light, have good battery life, have instant-on from sleep, be more secure and have good performance.

Intel introduced an industry-wide initiative to re-think the Windows notebook PC, which they have dubbed and trademarked the “Ultrabook”. If you are in the high-tech industry and haven’t heard of the term “Ultrabook”, you’ve probably been on sabattical or have been living under a rock.

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