“Intel has recently been aggressively cooperating with notebook chassis suppliers hoping to achieve the goal of dropping Ultrabook prices to below US$1,000, and Intel is currently focusing on pushing plastic and fiberglass hybrid chassis for the new machines, according to sources from the PC supply chain,” Aaron Lee and Joseph Tsai report for DigiTimes.
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“The sources pointed out that magnesium-aluminum alloy chassis are still the top choice for Ultrabooks, but limited by capacity and price, most of brand vendors are unable to offer an end price below the targeted US$1,000, and the three already-launched Ultrabooks from Acer, Lenovo and Toshiba are all estimated to have end price higher,” Lee and Tsai report.
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MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s MacBook Air isn’t so easy to knockoff, huh?
“Ultrabooks?” Pfft. There’s only one true family of “ultra” ‘Books: Apple’s.