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Will you be buying an Ultrabook?

  • 29-12-2011 1:28pm
    #1
    Defiler Of The Coffin
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    Looks like there is finally a PC-type competitor to the MacBook Air. Intel have defined a specification for 'Ultrabook'. Samsung, Acer, Asus, Toshiba and Lenovo have released machines with at least the following:
    turns on instantly
    is always connected
    battery life of longer than eight hours
    Flash memory for rapid Internet use
    thinner than 0.8 inches
    weighs less than 3.1 pounds
    full-sized keyboard
    latest version of Microsoft Windows
    Intel's newest chipsets
    USB 3.0

    http://burke.patch.com/articles/your-next-pc-could-be-an-ultrabook

    The ones out now have Core i3/i5 processors but are due to be replaced with the lower voltage Ivy Bridge processors out next year.

    Will be interested if they can get the price down a bit.


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  • #2
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    seen em. sell em. they are awesome.

    have to be careful which one though: the toshiba portege has a very flimsy plastic bezel around the screen. Extremely easy to bend, and even floppy. The ASUS for the cost of a few extra ounces is extremely sturdy in a full alumin*um body.

    Prices are already coming down on them. Poorly timed launch in most markets. Back to School season would have made a sh!t-ton more sense. During the holidays, if it's below $500, I can't keep it in stock. If it's below $300 I get computer illiterates jumping down my throat complaining why I don't have any in stock for them, and then I have to explain how our advertising works and how "limited quanitites, no rainchecks" operates, and how our state doesn't require me to keep minimum stock of an advertised sale and how all our **** was pushed up to hippie states like Michigan that do because we have nothing to sell because you crazy bastards already bought thousands of the laptop that we were about to put on sale so we didnt have any left by the time the actual sale rolled around. So good job.

    High-end laptops sell brilliantly during the summer though. Meanwhile these current models are going to come down in price little by little. You could have already snatched the Portege up for $700 at some points. The ASUS and the Samsqung Chrome I've seen at $999 this week and those will eventually come down also. Meanwhile though I still have retail zombies to contend with who aren't actually looking for a computer they're looking for that near-sexual gratification of thinking they are getting some kind of deal - any deal - for their money in the post-christmas salepocalypse. And Ultrabooks are not that.

    But **** yeah, if you want an Ultrabook, and need one soon, the prices are already fair on them. Compare the ASUS i5 to a Macbook Air, and compare the price. Hell compare it to an iPad and a Transformer Prime while you're at it. They are still already an excellent value but f*ck trying to convince plebs of it.


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