Acer will focus on making Ultrabooks in 2012 as part of a plan to get more people to buy its PCs. The Taiwan-based computer manufacturer says it will concentrate on selling Ultrabooks, Intel’s new ...

Just 12 months ago, the Ultrabook was widely regarded as the PC market’s savior. Since then, it’s become more of a punch line. The Ultrabook made a splash at CES 2012 with its ultra-thin form factor, ...

During the last three months of any year, PC vendors sell about 45% of all of the PCs that they offer in that calendar year. And if consumers buy enough of these PCs, the vendors are able to turn a ...

Prices for laptops in Intel's "Ultrabook" category are expected to fall below $1,000 by the end of this year and may drop as much as 10 percent in the first quarter of 2012 with the help of a $100 ...

In late 2010, after years of abstaining from entering the netbook market, Apple finally succeeded in transforming the MacBook Air from a disappointing promise of laptops to come into a machine that ...

2012 may well be remembered as the year of the Ultrabook, Intel's PC answer to Apple's MacBook Air. The world's largest chip maker had around 20 Ultrabook models in Las Vegas from various OEM partners ...

Looks like ultrabooks are the new tablets. Sort of. Remember when CES in 2011 was the show of a zillion slates? CES 2012 could see as many as 50 super-thin, Intel-powered ultrabooks. Wanna take a ...

It’s happening. Super-slim Ultrabook prices are edging closer to the average range of standard laptop prices. For instance, Lenovo IdeaPad U-series Ultrabooks officially announced on Wednesday start ...

When Intel wheeled out the first ultrabook in May 2011, it wasn't hard to see that its inspiration -- and arch nemeses -- were Apple's increasingly delectable line of laptops and tablets. In recent ...

PEl Segundo, Calif. (Oct. 1 2012)—Amid high pricing and a lack of effective marketing to draw consumer’s attention away from other hot-selling mobile gadgets, global ultrabook shipments are falling ...

A new analysis from investment bank J.P. Morgan says Windows-based ultrabooks are unlikely to achieve similar success as Apple's MacBook Air in their first generation and will not become "meaningful ...