Ultrabooks are here! These super slim but powerful computers are starting to trickle in – it’s a shame they missed the back-to-school buying seasons, however they are just in time for Christmas. Asus offers the UX21 and UX31 systems in 11″ and 13″ sizes, respectively. The hands on reviews are all here:

Gizmodo
Slashgear
Anandtech
Laptop Magazine
CNET

It took long enough, but there are finally some Windows-based competitors to the revised Macbook Air. This Samsung 9 series laptop is actually thinner and lighter than the Air, but only by very slight differences. Unfortunately it only comes in 13″ version, so there is no competitor to the 11″ Air yet.

Specs look good, with a much more powerful CPU than the Macbook Air and includes 4GB RAM and 128GB SSD.

This commercial was made using computer graphics. It’s surprising how realistic it is:

Silestone — ‘Above Everything Else’ from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

Laptop Magazine completed their annual survey of laptop vendors and evaluated their technical support. For the last few years, Apple has won and this year was no different. No wonder so many people are “thinking different”. Here are the 2009 grades, more detail about the web vs. phone support is in the article.

• Apple A
• Asus B-
• Dell C-
• Fujitsu B-
• Gateway B-
• HP C-
• Lenovo B+
• Sony B+
• Toshiba B