HP Taking on MacBook Air, Asus with Ultrabook Laptop

The ultraportable laptop competition is heating up, American Samoa HP is reportedly expected to atomic number 4 the firstborn to launch laptops supported Intel's new Ultrabook category: slim, affordable laptops that may hand Windows users decent alternatives to Apple's MacBook Air travel. DigiTimes says HP will exist launching at the least two Ultrabook models — ahead of the Asus UX21, which is slated for Sept and the laptop Intel used to announce the new family in Crataegus laevigata.

Sources told DigiTimes that the HP Ultrabooks bequeath use Intel's Meat i7-2677M (1.8GHz) and i7-2637M (1.7GHz) dual-core CPUs. However, Intel's guidelines for the Ultrabooks division indicate the HP models will comprise under 0.8-inches chummy, have a long bombardment life, and cost under $1,000.

Since Apple is also expected to refresh the MacBook Air soon — within the adjacent few weeks or days, even – the timing of this news show is very interesting. Intel believes Ultrabooks will enamor adequate to 40 percent of consumer laptops globally by the end of succeeding year. That race is just about to lead off.

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