Asus Ultrabooks Expected Soon

It's the year of Ultra books. With the high demand for the ultra portable and ultra thinner notebooks, all the leading manufacturers of high end laptops and notebooks are concentrating hard on presenting most efficient Ultra books in the market. This year has already witnessed the launch of many ultra books by some of the most respected names in the business like Acer, Toshiba, etc. The very new among them was an Acer Aspire S3 ultrabook with all those high end specifications. Now its Asus that's making news with their new laptop dubbed as UX21. Intel recommends its new technology for all laptops meeting the ‘ultrabook' specifications.

Asus's ultrabook entry was a major attraction of the IFA event at Berlin. The new UX21 is an 11.6 inch machine with a pure aluminum build. There is a rumor about an updated version of the Asus ultra book assumed to be called as the UX31. It would be as thin as UX21 with 0.67 inch and is expected to have an identical configuration of 2^nd generation Corei7, i5 processors. The notebook would also feature a 2 second sleep resume along with its 10 days of standby. It would be a lighter design weighing just 2.9 pounds.

The UX21 and UX31 are expected to have its launch in September this year. The launch of the two editions of the Asus in September suggests market dominance by the MacBook Air. The full specification of the Asus ultra books is not completely known but there are reports from resources that the unit would consist of an Intel Core i5 and i7 processors with at least a 2 GB of DDR3 memory. It would also consist of a 64 or 128 GB SSD and also a USB 3.0 for synchronizing the unit with other supported external hard wares. The ultrabook weighs just a 1 KG, its major advantage.

The success in the market for Ultrabooks however depends on the affordability of the unit. It has been already promised by the company that the ultrabook will be tagged with affordable price in India keeping it below $1000 (Rs 45,000). To fulfill the promise it's geared with Sandy Bridge Core processors and it is expected to come with heavy discount offers from the manufacturers. Intel is planning to achieve a market share of up to 40% for all the costs of all its notebooks by the end of the year 2012.