Monday, February 13th 2012
Ultrabook Pricing Unlikely to Reach $599-699 Range till 2013
Affordable Ultrabooks, which strike a cost-benefit sweet-spot when priced in the US $599-699 range are unlikely to become a reality till 2013, sources among notebook vendors told DigiTimes. The same sources also note that pricing will be the key to driving demand for Ultrabooks. They attribute this to high production costs, which will likely persist till next year.
Components such as SSDs, which are key to keeping these devices ultra-slim, cost 10-times as much as HDDs, custom-design ultra-thin display panels, and aluminum unibody chassis are still quite expensive, even as major ODMs are ramping up infrastructure to mass-produce some of these components. Even with the most aggressive cost-cutting, the cheapest Ultrabooks available in 2012 will cost US $799.
Source:
DigiTimes
Components such as SSDs, which are key to keeping these devices ultra-slim, cost 10-times as much as HDDs, custom-design ultra-thin display panels, and aluminum unibody chassis are still quite expensive, even as major ODMs are ramping up infrastructure to mass-produce some of these components. Even with the most aggressive cost-cutting, the cheapest Ultrabooks available in 2012 will cost US $799.
2 Comments on Ultrabook Pricing Unlikely to Reach $599-699 Range till 2013
Tablets and ultrabooks are usually not for the same functions either. Ultrabooks will completely replace your laptops netbooks and tablets, while tablets are just an addition to your laptop and netbook.
If you want to compare tablets to ultrabooks, then it should be a comparision between the ASUS EP121 and the Acer S3. The Acer S3 can be found at 799$, while the you'd be lucky to find the EP121 at 749$. The price difference is minimal, the power and HDD space etc of the S3 is much better. The Acer S3, known for bad battery life, has AT LEAST over 50% better battery life.
Now if you want to compare a standard tablet to something, compare it to netbooks