I would love nothing more than for Apple's new ostensibly overhauled MacBook Pros to get here in April, but even that's a best-case scenario, according to DigiTimes' latest supply chain whisperers.
If you’re thinking about buying an Ultrabook–a thin and light Windows laptop that’s meant to rival Apple’s MacBook Air–you might want to wait until April.
Although Intel doesn’t build laptops, the chip maker showed off a bit of design flare at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with Nikiski, a concept notebook that folds up into a touchscreen virtual assistant.
The Intel-led legion of thin, light and beautiful may look like the future of laptops, but at the moment, their prices could give you a heart attack. Many of the ones on display at CES float around $1,000, and some are closer to $1,500. Because of this, AMD sees an opportunity to attack its rival chip maker, Intel, which created the Ultrabook concept.
With the introduction of ultrabooks, 2012 will probably be the most disruptive year in portable computing designs since the industry introduced “thin and light” laptops a decade ago.
We’re on the hunt for a computer that costs less than $400 and will mainly be used for word processing and web surfing.
Toshiba’s Portege Z835 is part of the first wave of Ultrabooks, and tries to get an edge with a relatively low price tag of $899. I’ve been using a Portege Z835 review unit for a week, and I think Toshiba’s pulled off a good first effort, but the lower price doesn’t come without sacrifice.
Once you’ve got a dual-monitor setup at your desk, it’s hard to go back to single-screen computing. In other words, using a laptop, with its one measly screen, stinks.
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
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