It was in news that Intel is constantly working for introducing ultra low voltage energy efficient processors for next genertion notebooks and laptops. Recently” ultrabook” and an ASUS model was brought in market-first device that is equipped with Intel’s new ULV processor similar to Apple’s Macbook Airs. It is expected quite sure that these ultra-thin and ultra-light laptops can grab 40% share of the consumers laptop market by the 2012. Sources say
“The sources pointed out that the new MacBook Airs are priced at about US$999-1,599 with rather strong demand in the US; however, designing an ultrabook based on Intel’s technical suggestions will still be unable to reduce the machine’s price level to lower than the MacBook Air’s unless Intel is willing to reduce its prices, which already account for one-third of the total cost.”
Macrumors say
Intel’s effort to match the MacBook Air’s thin profile has seen the company push forward its new platform with more components integrated directly onto the machines’ circuit boards and using non user-replaceable batteries, mirroring Apple’s own steps. Those requirements have, however, pushed up the cost of those components beyond that of the modular ones typically used in PCs, resulting in Ultrabook pricing coming in at the same levels as Apple’s MacBook Air.
Softpedia Adds
” to that the high prices of solid state drives and ULV processors (Intel’s hardware alone accounts for a third of the $1000 price) and it becomes pretty clear that Ultrabooks will find it hard to compete with the $999 to $1,599 priced MacBook Air.”
“As far as notebook makers are concerned, the only solution to deliver sub $1000 Ultrabooks could be for Intel to reduce the price of its components (one could actually interpret all these complaints as a way to force Intel to do just that).”
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