If Intel has its way, most laptops will eventually be Ultrabooks, which if you strip away the marketing jargon simply refers to slim and light machines with long battery life and enough processing power to watch Netflix and play …
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Two Minute Video: MacBook Air Style, PC Price with the Acer ‘S3’ Ultrabook
MacBook Air style with a more PC-like pricetag: That’s the promise of Acer’s new S3 ultrabook. At $900, it beats Apple’s lowest-priced 13-inch MacBook Air by a full $400 while measuring up almost identically in weight and …
IDF Preview: Can UltraBooks Save the PC Industry?
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.
This week, I will join around 5,000 others who will head to San Francisco to attend Intel’s Developer Forum. For Intel and much of the PC industry …
Eight New Tablets and Ultrabooks You Should Know About
Tech companies have been flexing their design muscles at the IFA trade show in Berlin this week, trying to prove that Apple’s not the only one that can make ultra-thin, ultra-light laptops and tablets. Turns out that these PC makers can out-slim the iPad and the MacBook Air after all. They just needed Apple to start the fire. Here’s a …
Acer MacBook Air Competitor Leaked with Sub-$800 Starting Price?
So these Windows-based “ultrabooks” we’ve been hearing about recently should be making their way to consumers in time for the holidays. The promise: MacBook Air-like design and portability, but with cheaper price points and, of course, Windows.
(MORE: The Race to Beat the MacBook Air Is On)
And while we’ve seen a teaser image of …
Windows-Based MacBook Air Competitors May Be Pricier than Anticipated
The promise of Windows-based “ultrabooks” is an intriguing one. They’re coming later this year and they’ll sport super-thin, super-light designs similar to those found in Apple’s MacBook Air line of notebooks.
As Windows machines, there may have been an expectation that they’d cost less than similarly-outfitted MacBook Air models. …
The Race to Beat the MacBook Air Is On
Laptop heavyweight HP may soon try to take on Apple’s MacBook Air with an ultra-thin notebook of its own.
The laptop would be part of a new category of PCs that Intel is calling “Ultrabooks,” measuring less than an inch thick and selling for under $1,000. According to DigiTimes’ unnamed sources, HP’s early entrant would use Intel’s Core
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Next in Notebooks: Super Thin ‘Ultrabooks’ to Cost Under $1,000
Not that it should be a huge surprise by any stretch of the imagination, but notebook computers will continue to get thinner, lighter and less expensive.
So says Intel, which outlined what it’s calling “Ultrabooks”—portable computers that’ll measure well under an inch thick and run atop Intel’s latest line of “Core” processors:
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