Ultrabooks to begin arriving in September, dearer than expected

Seems like those skinny Ultrabooks Intel was seeking to sell us on at Computex will all be hitting the market at roughly the identical time. Despite earlier suggestions that HP would beat ASUS’s planned September launch, DigiTimes reports the Palo Alto company’s Air competitor won’t actually ship until as late as Q1 of 2012, due to LCD supply issues. Those problems scoring enough panels also are holding up similar systems from Acer and Dell. To make matters worse, it kind of feels those promised sub $1,000 price points were somewhat optimistic. ASUS told the Taipei Times that its UX line would only have the ability to hit this type of price using slower Core i3 chips — upgrading to a Core i5 and sticking in an SSD would push the value towards the $2,000 mark.

[Thanks, Marco]

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