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Yeah but it isn't like Apple invented the idea of the ultrabook.
by riprowan 10y ago
Yeah but it isn't like Apple invented the idea of the ultrabook.
- bryanlarsen 10y agoThe ultrabook was almost entirely a reaction to the MacBook Air. Read initial press reports about the ultrabook, they make that obvious. Like http://www.pcworld.com/article/246691/ultrabooks_laptops_as_light_as_air.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/246691/ultrabooks_laptops_as_...
- Tiksi 10y agoThe MacBook Air was almost entirely a reaction to the eeePC. Probably not really, but just as much as ultrabooks were to the macbook air.
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoYes, the MacBook Air was a reaction to netbooks. But it was a different category of device, a high-end ultraportable. The same category of device that Ultrabooks fit into.
- acdha 10y agoI don't see anyone making that claim. All of the major players experimented with small laptops – just as there were small PowerBooks, there were small ThinkPads, Vaios, etc. going back to the 1980s. – but for a long time the engineering tradeoffs were too extreme.