Comments on: Intel plays Ultrabook matchmaker to boost production http://www.slashgear.com/intel-plays-ultrabook-matchmaker-to-boost-production-06212188/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: mjw149 http://www.slashgear.com/intel-plays-ultrabook-matchmaker-to-boost-production-06212188/#comment-180974 mjw149 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:50:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=212188#comment-180974 Boy, Lenovo and Dell must be thrilled that Intel is trying to undercut their premium products even before some of them have been released.  It’s such an odd business arrangement, as if Cummings had to pay Chrysler to build a new pickup truck, so they could sell more engines to Chrysler.  Or farmers paid McDonald’s to come out with a new burger.  Or MS paid Nokia to buy their OS.

]]> By: Steve http://www.slashgear.com/intel-plays-ultrabook-matchmaker-to-boost-production-06212188/#comment-180498 Steve Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:50:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=212188#comment-180498 What’s missing in this article is any mention of Intel Inside which Intel’s billion dollar pool of marketing funny money used to drive adoption. Whenever you see intel’s logo on a ultrabook, pc or in a tv commercial that’s Intel Inside at work. Intel Inside funds will allow the ODMs and their clients to market ultrabooks at a favorable price point while getting the necessary funds to market/promote the products.

]]> By: Matti http://www.slashgear.com/intel-plays-ultrabook-matchmaker-to-boost-production-06212188/#comment-180470 Matti Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=212188#comment-180470 If the hardware isn’t Linux/BSD friendly, won’t matter to me whether they name it ultrabook, budgetbook or stupendousbook.

I suspect getting the models down to that price (at this point in time) will likely mean crap SSD drives. From experience, if you’ve got a slow SSD, you might as well go back to a regular HDD.

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