We’re here today at Miniloc Island in El Nido for the launching of the Asus Zenbook in the Philippines. The official program will start this evening but we got some early whispers about the retail price.
Both the Asus UX21 and the UX31 will be revealed to the media later today and, so far, all we got are the suggested retail prices for the two.
The Asus Zenbook UX21 will come with an Intel Core i5 2467M 1.6GHz, 4GB DDR3 RAM and 128GB SSD while the Asus Zenbook UX31 will come with an Intel Core i5 2557M 1.7GHz, 4GB DDR3 RAM and 128GB SSD.
Suggested retail price:
Asus UX21: Php53,995
Asus UX31: Php59,995
Will follow-up with complete specs (there are a number of variants but I am told only one specs per size will be shipped in) as well as release dates in a while.
I brought with me my Macbook Air and Aspire S3 so we can do a side-by-side comparison.
Asus is set to release the units in local stores by end of November.
Updated: Here are more hands-on and photo comparisons.
puro kau reklamo me pambili ba kayo.kung mahal di wag kau bumili hahaha
lol. lame attempt at humor. people want the best bang for their buck. and this is a tech blog/forum where comparing price vs. value/specs is the norm.
go home and plant kamote! harharhar!
Asus should offer the same machine with slight specs variation – use of 320/500 GB HDD as primary storage and 20GB SSD as cache drive (similar to Acer offering). Bigger storage at a lower price, and it should be no higher than 50K.
I saw sellers at TPC for these ultrabooks and I say it’s pretty steep. A price tag between 64k – 69k, I’d rather get a MBA. I just hope the drop will drop before the year ends.
Ang nipis! Nakikipag-kumpetensya ba ‘to sa Mac Book? :)
For me Acer products are garbage! lackadaisical tech design! take for instance the first Iconia laptop with a swivel double touch screen which serves no purpose and reflects the engineering flaws in the design itelf. and almost Acer products end up in repair shops in less than a year. Poor quality products. That includes the E-machines and their Gateway products. And now here comes this..ultrabook, its a risk 10 times if but this product.
Yeah Acer is crap but this one’s Asus
Naku tama ka,
You must have had a bad experience with Acer products to have so sweeping an opinion.. personally though I have had three Acer laptops and the only major problem on one machine was to have the battery replaced under warranty, other than that, I’ve had zero problems, not even a dead pixel. The rest outlived their usefulness because well, technology does that.. all in all, they average at about 3-4 years of usage. That’s actually a long time for laptops.. oh, two of them are still alive (running Ubuntu and donated to relatives with simpler requirements), one I took apart for spare parts.. sold the TFT.
I’m not sure if it’s reasonable because the price for that specs online is $1099.. that’s around Php48k
Wow, Miniloc, its a nice resort. Enjoy.
back to topic…Nice Specs of Asus.