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标 题: Asus Puts a Date on Release of the First Ultrabook
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Sep 28 22:51:49 2011, 美东)
Asus will start selling the very first Intel-branded Ultrabook with the
release of its UX21 ultrathin laptop on Oct. 11. The news comes by way of a
flashy graphic promising a launch event in New York City that appeared on
the Asus UX series landing page Monday.
Ultrabooks are Intel's answer to Apple's MacBook Airs, featuring
specifications for a laptop's thinness, battery life, boot times, and more
that if met will mean the product can be branded an Ultrabook, which is a
registered trademark of Intel.
The first Ultrabooks, including the Asus UX21, are based on Intel's current-
generation notebook processors code named Sandy Bridge but the chip giant is
touting its next-generation, 22nm Ivy Bridge chips as the platform of
choice for the new thin-and-light category.
Pricing for Ultrabooks would be optimally set at $999 in the early going,
according to Intel, which made the new category a big part of its Intel
Developer Forum agenda earlier in September.
Asus, which started the ball rolling with its unveiling of the Asus UX21 at
Computex 2011 in May, is expected to price its first Ultrabook under $1,000.
Like the Apple MacBook Air 11-inch, the UX21 has a sloping design, which
starts at 7mm in the back and tapers to 3mm once you reach the front bezel.
It differs from the Air in that the UX21 has a USB 3.0 port and a mini-HDMI
port, though it lacks an SD card reader.
The Asus ultrabook has a unibody frame, though it's made of hardened
aluminum that's been polished more than that of the MacBook Air, according
to PCMag's Cisco Cheng, who got his hands on the UX21 at Computex.
The model shown in May was packing Intel's 1.7GHz Core i5-2557M processor,
but Asus says it will have UX21 laptops with chips as powerful as the Core
i7 while keeping to Intel's requirements for Ultrabook battery life. The
UX21 has an option for either a 64GB or a 128GB solid state drive and the
computer maker says its Ultrabook can resume from sleep in two seconds.
In addition to the UX21, the Toshiba Portege Z835, Lenovo IdeaPad U300s, and
Acer Aspire S3 are expected to be among the first wave of official
Ultrabooks to be released and some of those designs could arrive in the next
few weeks, according to reports.
