Intel’s vision for Ultrabooks is to bring consumers high performance laptop computing in a sleek package with good battery life. So far we’ve seen just that, but the price component is important as well. Intel’s target price for Ultrabooks is around $1000. Thus far, the distribution of prices has been somewhat significant. Here I’m going to do a quick survey of Ultrabook prices so that we can follow the overall pricing of the category and see how it changes over time. I’ll also be looking to see how the prices of existing Ultrabooks have fallen since their release. To do this, I’ll be looking at top-end configurations of Ultrabooks from six major companies. A little while down the line I’ll take another look so we can get a grip on how prices in the Ultrabook market are changing.

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