Pricey
Lordy, those are expensive. £750 for the cheapest Lenovo
Ultrabooks are forecast to overtake notebook shipments by mid 2012 after swingeing price cuts appear to be finally reeling in some UK punters, particularly in the enterprise. This is according to channel box-counter Context, armed with distributor sales-out stats that show a six fold rise in 13.3 inch utrabooks - 80 per cent …
I think the lack of development of notebooks, their rising cost and the fact that lots of manufacturers are dropping their netbook lines has more to do with this than anything else. If netbooks had kept up a decent pace of development or kept their costs down then ultrabooks would be struggling even more than they are. Then there are things like the Acer v5 171 which blur the lines.
Yes Ralph B, you're right, but the same thing occurred to me at the time too.
I'm not an Apple fan, but why would I want to buy something like a MacBook, but not actually a MacBook? Why, why oh why?
These companies see Apple making huge profits and think they can too so long as they make something similar at a similar price. Idiots I call them, just plain idiots.
Twice as good or half the price, that's how you compete with an entrenched player.
Personally I'm super happy with the Dell Studio 15 I got from ebay for £300 being less than 12 months old at the time of purchase. It's had a hybrid Flash/Disk dive upgrade and a bit more memory, but it does me proud and looks good too, with the one exception of the ATI HDMI out.
ATI are so technically inept that they manage to screw up 1:1 pixel mapping on connections to 1080p TVs with the pixels being blurred by being resized again and again, while connecting to an HDMI monitor produces perfect alignment. God damn you ATI!!!
...if they'd fill up the space to something normal again, and spend that place for a better battery and better cooling. I mean a 12-13 inch device has advantages over a 15 inch one, of course. That's why I have a small IBM Thinkpad for when I travel. However it has never occurred to me that thinner might be better. In fact since it's not trimmed down, it's fairly durable. It can stand some beating.
Only a tiny percentage of punters care about laptop thickness (Within reason.) and practically everyone cares about price/performance. Therefore slapping a 50% premium on a machine with rubbish specs just because it is 2mm is a fools game.
They often are. For example they could easily take over much more of the "workstation" market, by having ECC on their lower end CPUs. An Intel mainboard with integrated dual head graphics, plus ECC memory would be a great product for people who just want reliability.