14 DAY TRIAL // Adding to the attention that the media is paying to ultrabooks, a report has emerged, saying when HP and Dell are expected to make their own contributions.
If anything can be said about ultrabooks, it is that they have caused a great deal of talk around the worldwide web.
They were made as a way to steal back the market share that tablets took from notebooks, though ASUS thinks ultrabooks and slates are more likely to exist as parallel markets.
Either way, being super-thin laptops that don't really sacrifice performance much, albeit somewhat too expensive, ultrabooks are expected to do their job well.
Of course, this may be more of a result of all the promotion efforts Intel and its partners have put into the initiative.
Regardless, pretty much every notebook maker out there has or will deliver one of these new mobile personal computers at some point.
Digitimes says that, according to what supply chain partners are saying, HP will be slightly faster than Dell in this.
The PR disaster-plagued top PC maker will finish and launch its product before the ongoing year (2011) is out. This should let it catch the holiday shopping season, or at least part of it.
Meanwhile, Dell is holding off until the 2012 edition of CES (Consumer Electronics Show). For those who are interested in a potential awe-inducing fact, it was recently discovered that Ultrabooks powered by Intel's upcoming Ivy Bridge CPU series will have Retina-Like displays with a resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels.
The fact that this series of chips have integrated graphics with support for 4k resolutions deems to lay credence to this and will no doubt sit especially well with those customers that are tired after five years of seeing laptops with the same average vertical pixel number (HD resolution may be 1,366 horizontally, but the 768 vertical pixels aren't nearly as impressive).