Acer Chairman JT Wang sees a resurgence of Microsoft software in the coming years, enabling Windows to more effectively take on Apple. Microsoft’s Windows “has not had any achievements within these two markets that can help it gain share,” precipitating a decline in Netbook shipments…
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Asus & Acer Ultrabooks Under performing – Only 100,000 Unit Sold in 2011?
The first Ultrabooks from ASUS and Acer are on the market and they aren’t meeting sales expectations. Sources from the retail supply chain, according to one count each with only expected to sell around 100,000 units by the end of this year. These numbers are…
Apple Reported Testing New Macbook Air/Pro with 15″ Display
Apple is apparently about to finish the development of a MacBook Air with 15-inch display. The U.S. company has recently completed work on an important “test component” for the display of the new Ultra…-thin notebooks, according to a report from Japan. The MacBook Air
Manufactures Looking for CPU Price Drop on Ultrabooks
I saw this one coming a mile away! I’ve been saying for weeks now that Intel should subsidize the end cost of Ultrabooks for the consumer and apparently the manufacturers agree! Both Acer and Compal are looking Intel to help them drop the price on…
Ultrabooks Aren’t Providing Large Enough Profit Margins, Yet
When you’re blazing new trails with an Ultra… Thin Category of course the parts necessary are still going to be a little more expensive because they aren’t as common as traditional notebook parts. What this means is that each Ultrabook can only contribute an average
Another Ultrabook Round-Up For Your Perusal
Liliputing has a great round-up of specs for the 5 ultrabooks that were introduced at IFA 2011. It’s a nice companion article to the one we posted earlier from This is My Next, since that one mainly had video and lots of photos.
These…
Ultrabooks Galore at IFA 2011
It seems that IFA 2011 has ushered in the era of the ultrabooks category of laptops. These Intel-based, Ultra…-thin, and light laptops hope to lure you away from the MacBook Air with their sleek hardware designs, beefy hardware specs, and, most importantly, pricing competitive
ASUS X101 MeeGo Netbook Up for PreOrder in the US
Update: Apparently they are shipping! Rather then waiting for stock to get into the warehouse they are shipping directly from the supplier who has stock! Although I’m not sure how much I believe this since my contact at ASUS says it wont start shipping until…
ASUS UX21 Confirms Q3 Availability in Australia
Ultrabooks are rumored to be going up for sale in the fall and we are pretty excited that the PC world is finally going to have a competitor to the MacBook Air. APCMag got to spend a little bit of time with the ASUS UX21…
HP Looking to Beat ASUS to the Ultrabook Market
Looks like HP is looking to come to market first with an Ultrabook before ASUS does in September with their UX21, according to Taiwan component manufacturers. We should be keeping an eye out for two, or more, Ultrabooks from HP using Intel’s Ultra…-thin
Can Intel’s Deep Pockets Jump Start the Ultrabook Category?
Another year another new product category, at Computex 2011 the Ultrabook category was announced by Intel, in case you missed its meant to sky rocket to 40% of the notebook market by the end of 2012 and they will be will be less than 0.8-inches…
Asus Eee PC X101 goes on sale in July
The svelte, Ultra thin, Meego powered Asus Eee PC X101… is set to go on sale this July. This ultra thin netbook features a matte 10-inch 1024 x 600 resolution display, single core Intel Atom N435 CPU at 1.33GHz, 16GB SSD, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, 2x USB
Taiwan’s IT Month 2010 Show Floor Walk Through
IT Month is Taiwan’s Biggest sale and its not like you go from shop to shop looking for the good deals, they rent out two huge halls and bring all the vendors to you!! What every you’re looking for you’ll be able to find, they…
Gigabyte Q1105 Best 11.6 Keyboard on the Market
Its not often I’m floored by a keyboard, but this one has an absolutely massive one, I’m sure upon closer inspection it might even be an over sized keyboard. The Gigabyte Q1105 is running on an Intel Core 2 Duo ULV SU4100 processor, 2GB DDr3…
ASUS U36JC Hands On and Preview
Update: The Asus U36JC is now shipping at Amazon.com
ASUS had a few models being debuted at their press conference today but only one seemed like it was something a little different, something actually worth mentioning. The ASUS U36Jc is a 13.3 inch Core i5…
