“For now, Apple has a vise-grip on ultraportables like it has on tablets,” Brooke Crothers reports for CNET. “With the company on track to sell well over 10 million Airs this year, it may well see the product ultimately become its bestselling laptop. And the company will only accelerate this trend when it brings out a larger ultraslim model, which, for all intents and purposes, will also be a MacBook Air.”
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“Call it PC versus Mac, the Ultrabook edition,” Crothers reports. “A possible result: Apple is the only device maker selling large numbers of the new breed of powerful, Sandy Bridge-based, sub-3-pound ultraportables, aka Ultrabooks. As is the case with the current tablet market, consumers will look to Apple for ultraslim post-PC designs but continue to choose–in diminishing proportions relative to Apple–HP and Dell for the traditional computing paradigm.”
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