Up to 6 of these will be coming out in October
Asus reports that it will be launching five to six Ultrabooks in October in New York, when it will display its full range of Ultrabooks that will be priced from $899 – $1,999. The Ultrabooks will have screen sizes of 11.6″ to 13.3″ and will be ultra-thin and ultra-portable. Publicly-known models are the 11.6″ UX21 which was displayed at Computex 2011 and the UX31, which will be the 13.3″ model. It’s unfortunate that I find the Asus logo so ugly.
While Intel has envisioned that an Ultrabook should be powerful and ultraportable, they have also demanded that the Ultrabook be under a thousand dollars, which was rather impossible up until now. The first few prototypes by Acer and Asus both had mid-$1,000 price tags. However, Intel has been willing to help manufacturers to design Ultrabooks that are below $1,000, and also have invested money via they investment corporation to find innovative technology and cost-efficient methods of productions.
However, the Ultrabook has its critics. To me, an ultrabook is a very expensive laptop, and unless it were as slick and ‘cool’ as the MacBook Air, I don’t really see too much point to buying one, especially if I had to pay a premium and not get a significant performance bump. On the other hand, manufacturers have also been wary of the Ultrabook. While HP was supposed to unveil an Ultrabook, it decided to pull out of the PC market completely. The only people left in the market is Asus and Acer, and their move will be closely watched by their competitors
Source: Digitimes
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