As notebook brand vendors are ready to release their second-generation ultrabooks with Intel's upcoming Ivy Bridge platform, vendors are preparing to cut their existing ultrabook prices to digest inventories
Last update: Tuesday 14 February 2012 [3 news items]
Ultrabook prices to drop 20-30% in early March to April
Feb 14, 01:25
Prices of the existing ultrabooks are expected to see a 20-30% drop in early March to April to help digesting notebook vendors' inventories as Intel is set to announce its next-generation...
Ultrabook price unlikely to achieve sweet spot until 2013
Feb 13, 16:09
Despite that notebook vendors all understand that price is the key to significantly drive demand for ultrabooks, especially when approaching to the sweet spot at about US$599-699,...
Vendors dropping ultrabook prices in preparation of second-generation models
Feb 7, 01:15
As ultrabooks from brand vendors such as Acer, Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard (HP) are all recently seeing price drops in the North America, sources from retail channel believe that the...
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