Acer Taking on MacBook Air with Ultrabook Laptop

Acer plans to competitor the MacBook Tune this October with a red-hot 13.3-inch Ultrabook laptop featuring Intel Core Sandy Nosepiece chips, longer battery spirit, and solid or merciless disk memory options, according to the latest rumors. The supposed Acer Aspire 3951 is clearly a MacBook Air-inspired device including purpose choices such as silver atomic number 13 case, large trackpad, and chiclet keyboard. Images of the purported new laptop computer recently leaked online through the Vietnamese web site Sohoa.

Reported eyeglasses for the Shoot for 3951 include the previously mentioned 13.3-inch showing (no word on resolution), Sandy Bridge Core i processors, 6 hours of bombardment life, 30 years of standby sentence, less than ii seconds of reaction time from sleep, Bluetooth 4.0, HDMI and USB ports, Dolby Home Theater sound, and a card reader. Storage options admit a 160GB SSD or an HDD with either 250GB or 500GB capacity. The new laptop computer reportedly measures about 0.51 inches thick (the Line measure 0.68-inches at its thickest point) and weighs to a lesser extent than 3.10 pounds. No word on pricing, but Ultrabooks are supposed to comprise priced at less than $1,000.

All about Ultrabooks

Intel in May proclaimed a new class of ultraportable laptops called Ultrabooks that would feature

longer battery life, be to a lesser degree 0.8-inches thick and priced at less than $1,000. The first round of Ultrabooks should hit shelves this fall with Loose Bridge Core i5 or i7 laptops. In early 2020, the hot laptop computer class volition switch over to Ivy Bridge chips — Intel's follow-up to Blond Bridgework and the first Intel chips to use the company's new 22-nanometer (Land of Enchantment) manufacturing technology.

To that degree, only Asus has officially announced an Ultrabook named the UX21. Asus' ultraportable laptop shares corresponding features to the rumored Aspire 3951, especially when it comes to design. Asus' 2.4-impound laptop has a unibody design, measures 0.67-inches at its thickest point, and can support up to a Core i7 processor. The UX21 features an 11.6-inch display with 1366-by-768 firmness of purpose, glass trackpad, miniskirt-HDMI, same USB 2.0 port, and one USB 3.0.

Just like the rumored Shoot for 3951, the UX21 is very more inspired past the MacBook Tune, which is nice if you're a Windows exploiter looking for something sleek to holdall around town. But considering Apple's current suit of clothes against Samsung terminated ripping off the iPhone's look and feel, you have to wonder how the Mac God Almighty will react to ii (and possibly many) Air clones hitting store shelves by the end of the twelvemonth.

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