>yes, Hangouts will bring it to its knees, but for some reason Hangouts will bring just about any laptop to its knees. I've got a couple year old x1 carbon 13"

>yes, Hangouts will bring it to its knees, but for some reason Hangouts will bring just about any laptop to its knees. I've got a couple year old x1 carbon 13", and it handles hangouts fine, more or less everyday. That's with the (annoyingly high) cpu usage of a couple hundred tabs open as well. If a tiny couple pound ultrabook van easily handle hangouts, I highly doubt that hangouts would be difficult on most laptops (let alone "just about any").