Dude, you are getting an Ultrabook!

Here comes the post-PC PC.

Back to school backpacks and holiday stockings this Fall should feature plenty of Ultrabooks. From ZDNet

“When the Ultrabook concept was first introduced with the promise of more than 60 designs in the pipeline, the general average price was $999. That's a fairly good deal for the form factor and processing power offered within many of those designs.

However, let's face it. With the MacBook Air also starting at $999, the competition for Intel and its Ultrabook partner ecosystem was going to be incredibly fierce.

But at $699? Now you're putting a fully-fledged, powerful computing machine at an incredibly low price point and even in the same pricing realm as tablets. Otellini also specified that at least more than 40 of the approximately 140 Ivy Bridge-based Ultrabooks in the pipeline will be touch-enabled with another dozen released as convertibles. Thus, at least some of those could steal away tablet sales.”

Photo of the Toshiba Portege Z835 which last Fall stood out as it was priced in some sales at $ 599.

Comments

[Ganesh]

I do not believe this comment is appropriate for this blog but still I couldn't resist making the comment anyway. With so much discussion about how college loans are impacting students in the long term, is a $699 ultrabook or $999 macbook really required for back to school backpacks? What is it that the students can do with these expensive laptops that they cannot with a $300 or $350 laptop (I am not talking about netbooks)? It is none of my business as to how much people spend on their personal needs but I am forced to listen to them complain about how expensive student loans are. While a $300 saving is a small drop in the ocean, it all adds up in the end and savings like these would go a long way in reducing the debt burden.

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[vinnie mirchandani]

Ganesh, my laptops last 2 years - my travel, no desktop version to share workload etc. I for one cannot question a student who is on a similar schedule...of course, for some it is a case of vanity - have to get latest and given your student loan scenario I would also question