Acer Developing a $699 15" Ultrabook, Says Supply Chain

[exfileme]

Acer reportedly plans to ship a 15-inch ultrabook next year with a $699 pricetag.

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[jacobdrj]

How would they keep a 15" model under the Intel-prescribed weight limit when they are having such a hard time keeping 13" models under that limit?

 

[amstech]

Ultracrap more like it.
Stop milking the system greedies and release 2560 X 1600 laptops!!

I'm ok with Intel (and some other companies) sitting on thier hands to make money but we need to start pushing the technological age again.

 

[nebun]

[citation][nom]amstech[/nom]Ultracrap more like it.Stop milking the system greedies and release 2560 X 1600 laptops!!I'm ok with Intel (and some other companies) sitting on thier hands to make money but we need to start pushing the technological age again.[/citation]
why such high resolution?....your icons will be so very small, what we need is a laptop with at least 8 hours of battery under full stress

 

[warezme]

[citation][nom]nebun[/nom]why such high resolution?....your icons will be so very small, what we need is a laptop with at least 8 hours of battery under full stress[/citation]
That is a bit high but if you were editing photos like in photoshop that would be ideal. I don't see many people doing that. I would appreciate a full RGB 1920x1200 screen on a 17" laptop

 

[aznshinobi]

Are these going to be Intel based or AMD based? I remember reading about AMD having some distributors wanting to make "ultra-books" out of the next gen Llano chips.

 

[sonofliberty08]

the term of Ultrabook sounds sux, better use the term Sutra insteed of Ultra, and the model name Kama, Kama Sutrabook sounds a lot better

 

[wemakeourfuture]

I agree with you amstech.

Resolution of 2560 x 1600 are what's need and in fact will be the next evolution of laptops and ultrabooks.

Icons won't be smaller, just the DPI will be a lot better. Funny how on a tech forum I keep hearing people complaining that the text and icons will be smaller.

iPhone 3 and iPhone 4 have the same size screen with similar sized icons but the 4 has a lot higher resolution (has higher DPI)

 

[fb39ca4]

that picture that has appeared in every single ultrabook article here sure is getting boring.

 

[WyomingKnott]

Umm, this is the "ultrabook" market. Thin. Light. Not a powerhouse for Photoshop, high-end graphics, massive storage, and so forth. It's addressing a specific market. Let's judge it in that context.

As for resolution, my eyes have always preferred higher resolution in the same space. I set font and icon sizes to "normal" sizes, but the additional resolution is kinder to my eyes. Except for graphics professionals, this may be a matter of personal preference.

 

[cknobman]

Likely the only thing ultra about it will be the display, as in ultra "shitty".

One day laptop makers will wake up and realize screen quality is important.

 

[dalauder]

[citation][nom]fb39ca4[/nom]that picture that has appeared in every single ultrabook article here sure is getting boring.[/citation]Funny how the picture of that girl with the legs that appears in every Xbox article isn't getting boring.

 

[dalauder]

[citation][nom]Zingam[/nom]That's thanks to Microsoft and their crappy Windows. Increase the DPI and everything breaks, icons look like $%#@$%@. Use another languages - everything breaks. Put a larger monitor, everything gets smaller... etc.[/citation]It's not really fair to talk trash on something because you know nothing about it. Windows has a simple setting to change text size (small, regular, large, XL, Custom) that fixes most the icons to fit on a higher resolution. What computer system do you use that has perfect automatic customization and peripheral compatibility?

 

[dalauder]

An Ultrabook for $600 actually sounds pretty nice. At $600, I can see the benefits over a $450 laptop actually being adequate to consider the price increase.

 

[eddieroolz]

That'll certainly be welcome, except for the 15" size. That kind of defeats the point of an ultrabook.

 

[Belardo]

Well... so much for Acer's "we wanna be like Apple" with product design and profit margins.