2012 ultrabooks that are in the market or are in the pipeline – Part 2

Following are some of the notebooks that either have been launched or are at the door to see the light of the day.

Samsung Series 9 NP900X4B-A02

The laptop has been officially launched by the Korean company but it is planned to be released in the US and UK in April.

Samsung is planning to release a couple of ultrabooks in its Series 9 line of devices. The one under discussion is one of their slimmest. Samsung has even gone to the extent of claiming it to be the slimmest in the 15-inch models.

The larger footprint of the device begs the question, are these large laptops killing the charm of ultrabooks, which made the first impression of being super slim and 13-inchers with high portability, a more technologically advanced option to the tablets in the current era.

A lack of higher-end features, such as an optical drive, and the dongle-requiring Ethernet and HDMI ports mean that this larger Series 9 isn’t all that much different under the hood from its tinier 13-inch sibling. Also, it only has 128GB of SSD storage, and battery life is good but not spectacular.

Tough the device is super slim and, unsurprisingly to me, gets the Ultrabook label issued from Intel, it still gives me the odd feeling of calling the NP900X4B-A02 an Ultrabook.

Acer Aspire S5

Launched at the CES 2012, Acer’s line of slim laptops, ultrabooks for that matter, is going to be another player in the market to compete on the thickness front. The S5 is planned to be launched somewhere in the second quarter of calendar 2012.

The launch and some of the specs that we saw at the Consumer Electronics Show suggest that the new laptop is going to incorporate the Ivy Bridge processors, though not Windows 8 because of its late arrival in the market.

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