Why ultrabooks were a flop in 2011?

Pinoys are waiting for the prices to go down,and most techblogs say they will in 2012.

Attracted with design but disappointed with price

Even the highly acclaimed HP dm1 11.6″ with E450 is priced at around 22k as a budget buy, selling a classy ultrabook with an SSD at 30k is nigh impossible.

In my opinion, there has been a big question of who the target market really is for the ultrabook segment (here in the Philippines anyway), and is the market available to buy the machines.

Mass market adaption of the ultrabooks will be hard since most laptop buyers are more on the 30-40k range. 50k and above buyers rarely get middle to low spec’d machines and go for the high end stuff.

Siguro tingin din nila ultrabooks are nice and thin but brittle and fragile.

aside from the price, it’s mainly because there’s not much option in 2011.

and if somebody would just use a proper version of windows 7, you can forget all the horrors from XP.

Yuga Price most definitely is the main factor. along with the Mac Air.

Why dont you check AMD’s ultrathin’s line up which is supposed to be around $500

I also think the form-factor hurts the genre in the country. Thin usually means “fragile” no matter if they are made of magnesium or aluminum or Kevlar or whatever. In a country where more people commute to school/work in buses, jeeps, FXes and trains, the seeming fragility might also be an issue.

Aside from the price, they have irreplaceable battery. I’m O-C with extra batteries since I use an ultraportable regularly in school.

@hmmm

wala pong graphics card ang mga portables. :)

Not really a flop since the ones that came out last year were basically ‘early adopter’ models, hence the steep price tag. Intel does predict that ultrabook prices will go as low as $400-500 due to stiff competition and cheaper raw materials. Acer says the S3 could go that cheap in a few months, according to Engadget(?)

Main reason behind this is that these ultra books are expensive..

PRICE was the biggest factor.

Why would anyone want to buy a plastic looking S3 at 45K when the entry level MBA is also at the same price? If it was way lower, people would have considered.

This year, if Lenovo prices the U310 and U410 affordably, they might be able to penetrate the Philippine market.

As of the moment, people are still into netbooks and other AMD portables. The best sellers are still the Atom netbooks. At a 10K-12K price point, most filipinos would opt for those machines.

To be honest, filipinos don’t have the cash to spend on these high end gadgets. Look at the cybercafes jampacked with people who are either playing, doing Facebook, or even blogging in there.

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