Where are all the reasonably priced Haswell & Kabini ultrabooks?

[monstercameron]

temash tablet/transformer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TfR44fFUsg

 

[Sweepr]

''The Satellite W30Dt starts from 649 Euro with AMD A4 4GB 500GB in Q4/2013.''

+649 euros for a huge 13.3'' detachable-tablet based on a 1GHz dual-core Temash (1/3 of A4 5000's CPU performance). Wow.

 

[monstercameron]

+649 euros for a huge 13.3'' detachable-tablet based on a 1GHz dual-core Temash (1/3 of A4 5000's CPU performance). Wow.

the intel version is what you saw, which is thicker because of the ative cooler and probably priced high due to haswell spd toting sku [i3-4020y]. So the amd version will be slower but smaller and most likely cheaper.

 

[Fjodor2001]

Intel now says there will be Haswell based laptops available for $299 in the coming weeks:

http://www.zdnet.com/intel-says-get...well-notebooks-349-2-in-1-hybrids-7000022020/

Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich says that he expects OEMs to push prices down over the coming weeks, and that this will result in $99 tablets, $299 Haswell laptops, and $349 2-in-1 hybrid tablets and notebooks.

I wonder what hardware those will have apart from the Haswell CPU though? Hardly large SSDs and high resolutions displays I think. Maybe he is talking about Chromebooks or something...?

Anyway, hopefully prices will start to drop on higher end Haswell based laptops/ultrabooks too, especially since Windows 8.1 now has been released, which I think many manufacturers have been waiting for.

 

[ShintaiDK]

The Acer Haswell Chromebook is 249$.

 

[Fjodor2001]

The Acer Haswell Chromebook is 249$.

Ok, so do you think the $299 price communicated by Intel is for "standard" Windows 8.1 based Haswell laptops?

 

[Techhog]

What you expect, ultrabooks don't even come close to the economies of scale that the Macbook gets and if people wanna spend $1000 for a laptop they certainly won't be looking at PCs anyway.

Speak for yourself lol

 

[blackened23]

Agreed. 1000$ is fine for a GOOD ultrabook. The problem in recent years is that apple has just been better than ultrabooks in terms of high quality - PC vendors such as dell, HP, etc were just shoving underperforming junk with horrible components and expected us to pay for that. Consumers had none of it. That may be changing. Several excellent designs have been released this year, such as the Lenovo Yoga Pro 2 (*very* nice machine), Sony Tap and the Surface Pro 2 looks excellent as well. In 2012 nothing matched the Apple rMBP. There are now several contenders that have been recently released - I certainly wouldn't hesitate to spend 1000$+ on a quality ultrabook, whereas one year I would only consider the rMBP for that price range.

In fact, the Yoga Pro 2 is now released and it is a heck of machine from what i've seen. It's definitely at the top of my list for consideration - it has a monster resolution of 3200*1800 as well.

 

[Shivansps]

Ok, so do you think the $299 price communicated by Intel is for "standard" Windows 8.1 based Haswell laptops?

Well Dell Inspiron 11 3000 is $379, prices are already close by.

Problem with C720 is that you need to add a bigger hard disk and W8 license, i dont think you can do that in just $50.

 

[FwFred]

Agreed. 1000$ is fine for a GOOD ultrabook.
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The problem in recent years is that apple has just been better than ultrabooks
In fact, the Yoga Pro 2 is now released and it is a heck of machine from what i've seen. It's definitely at the top of my list for consideration - it has a monster resolution of 3200*1800 as well.

Yoga 2 Pro is selling at Best Buy for $999 for i5/4GB/128GB, $1199 for i7/8GB/256GB. Pretty good pricing for a super high resolution convertible.

 

[LogOver]

temash tablet/transformer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TfR44fFUsg

Why does the keyboard part have "Intel inside" sticker?


BTW HP Spectre 13x2 (13.3", fanless haswell transformer) is available for preorder.
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/m/ads/new-products/spectre-x2.html

 

[monstercameron]

there is is an Intel and AMD version.

 

[Shivansps]

there is is an Intel and AMD version.

I cant find it, there is a price difference on AMD vs intel version?