2012 Year of Ultrabook?

Amid the increasing number of tablets that have sprung up from various vendors and certain trademarks, Ultrabook is a new breakthrough that may be booming in 2012.


Ultrabook considered the main rival MacBook Air after the previous Apple product is considered to have no meaningful competition in the class notebook is very light and thin. But the presence of Ultrabook in late 2011 forced the Macbook Air to lower market prices ranging from $ 999 to compete with Ultrabook.Ultrabook itself according to Intel is a laptop:- Having a thickness of less than 20mm (0.8 inches).- It has no optical drive.- Using a solid-state drive (SSD) for the entire storage.- Using the Core i5, i7 processor.- Weighs less than 1.4 kg (1.3 lbs).- Produces 5-8 + hours of battery power.- Dibandrol a price of around $ 1000The first Ultrabook generation has emerged from the upper class of laptop makers such as Lenovo, Acer, ASUS and HP. Currently, Windows 7-based Ultrabook from vendors such as Acer and Asus still have to compete hard with Mackbook Apple Air. But later with the new design of Windows 8 and the latest Intel processors Ultrabook expected to attract the attention of the user's laptop.Intel itself makes a very optimistic prediction by saying that the market Ultrabook will rise to 40 percent in 2012. But that prediction is contrary to the iSuppli analysis which says that in order to compete with the products and re-ogled consumer tablet, notebook should be more sexy and attractive design. Due to current consumers prefer tablets because it is lighter, thinner and almost all functions of the laptop is in tablet.In terms of price, Ultrabook also still considered too expensive and not affordable for most consumers. Although it is possible to produce a number of companies competing Ultrabook will drive down the price.Ultrabook prove Steve Jobs right with the introduction of the Macbook Air, that people will look for high-performance laptop that is packaged in a form that is very portable as a natural evolution of larger laptops. So it can be described laptop makers will pursue the Macbook Air, such as iPad tablet makers pursue. In addition Ultrabook also integrate with 3G/4G was not done on the Macbook Air.Given the few who do not require a Windows-based laptops, with a lightweight laptop market and thin. Next year will probably be a good year for more users to the Ultrabook response.
source: kabarit.com