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Why Ultrabooks Are Falling Well Short of Intel's Targets

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-leveraging-enough-synergies dept.

nk497 writes "When Paul Otellini announced Ultrabooks last year, he predicted they would grab 40% of the laptop market by this year. One analyst firm has said Ultrabooks will only make up 5% of the market this year, slashing its own sales predictions from 22m this year to 10.3m. However, IHS iSuppli said that Ultrabooks have a chance at success if manufacturers get prices down between $600 to $700 — a discount of as much as $400 on the average selling price of the devices — and they could still grab a third of the laptop market by 2016."

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  1. Re:iSuppli ignores recent history by luther349 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    only apple can massivly overprice there hardware and get away with it

  2. Re:The reason is simple. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah and lose a shitload of performance emulating Linux on an already underpowered and non-expandable Macintosh computer.

  3. Re:The reason is simple. by crutchy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Linux ALWAYS takes tweeking to get working 100%, regardless of how standardized your components are

    ...only because you have one hand stuck to your cock

    ...for the rest of us, there are rarely problems with hardware in linux (certainly less than for windows... i can't remember ever having to download drivers or use cd's to get a linux device working)
    it used to be that you sometimes had to look up a command on linuxforums, but not for a long time