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Intel Outlines 'Ivy Bridge' Roadmap as 1st Half 2012, and Previews 'Ultrabook' Laptop Designs

radiohead14 said:
the tapered/wedge design is nothing new. some would argue that the MBA's design was inspired by Sony's X505, which came out 4 years before the Air:
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The difference is that the X505 was a creaky, clunky toy with a 10" screen, undersize keyboard, and such tiny batteries that you were lucky to get 60 minutes of battery life. The Air (yes, even the original one) was, despite its faults, really a useable laptop.

The design, appearance, and construction of the X505 was also entirely different and unrelated to the Air.
 
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Hastings101 said:
I thought they've always been pretty slow with hardware updates.
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From what I understand the ULV Sandy Bridge chips did not come out until late this month or early June. Apple can't sell what Intel does not make. The MBA has always used ULV chips since its introduction. The current shipping Sandy Bridge chips have been Sever/Desktop/standard mobile chips.
 
Could someone find a picture of a laptop that looks exactly like a MBP that came out before it to shut these idiots up? I'm sure there is one. They didn't, after all, invent metal, or black, or keyboards. There are only so many ways to make a notebook out of metal or plastic, after all.

The black MacBook was pretty much a rip-off of something IBM started doing shortly after the dinosaurs departed. :rolleyes:
 
beebler said:
Possibly but I spoke to my good friend at Apple R&D last week and he said the timeline was still Jan or Feb for the redesigns.
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You don't have a good friend at Apple R&D.

If you ever had a good friend there, he would have stopped being your friend when you kept asking him about new hardware.

If he you told you anything, he would be "my good friend who used to work at Apple R&D" because he would have been fired.


Intel describes this family of notebooks as "thin, light and beautiful designs that are less than 20mm (0.8 inch) thick, and mainstream price points under US $1,000. These "ultrabooks" already sound very similar to Apple's MacBook Air which we've already heard is evolving into a mainstream product.
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Since Apple already has a mainstream product with a price point under US $1000 with this description, and without any new Intel products coming out, it looks like nobody is going to beat them on price. Since we know that nobody beats Intel on anything other than price, things look very good for the MBA.
 
Scarrus said:
That's a 1 on 1 copy of the MBA. Let's see if Apple are going to sue Asus over it...
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Hardly....its a thin laptop...try and find somewhere else to put those ports on something that thin. The only thing you could really say is remotely mac like is the glass trackpad, and even then there are others that had glass trackpads BEFORE Apple.

Get a grip man.
 
Surely they can't blatantly rip off the form factor?

To me this is worse than the Samsung infringement.
 
WELL DONE ASUS, you've completely copied the MacBook Air. Couldn't think of anything else to design, so they took apart an MBA and replicated it, changed a COUPLE of things, and BAM, they unleash the UX 21. Idiots.
 
DeanSolecki said:
Could someone find a picture of a laptop that looks exactly like a MBP that came out before it to shut these idiots up? I'm sure there is one. They didn't, after all, invent metal, or black, or keyboards. There are only so many ways to make a notebook out of metal or plastic, after all.

The black MacBook was pretty much a rip-off of something IBM started doing shortly after the dinosaurs departed. :rolleyes:
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Translation: "I don't really know and I am too lazy to check but my dogma says this and so it must be, dammit".

Tantrum much?
 
i'm glad i haven't upgraded from my late 2008 MBP this year. I allready have the money on the side for the 2012 MacBook Pro :D.


Really looking forward to what Apple comes up with in terms of design, trinkets to match the Intel chips awesomeness.
 
mijail said:
Translation: "I don't really know and I am too lazy to check but my dogma says this and so it must be, dammit".

Tantrum much?
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I suppose I could do a google search for "silver laptop," but you were supposed to get that there are only a handful of design choices and there simply will be overlap.

What dogma exactly are you referring to? I'm an Apple user, but you fanatics make that a somewhat embarrassing admission.
 
Maybe that really resembles the newer MacBook Airs, I think, we all should understand that most of these things end up looking just the same. There are specific ways to design these laptops and although the ASUS one is more or less a copy, one can't really blame.

Even the older MacBook airs were inspired from Toshiba and Sony laptops.
 
I think Pro will get more "airy" in 2012, and in 2013 Air is going to be merged completely in the Pro line, going back to two lines of laptops. Or even one, who knows.
 
That air looks thick, ugly, and toy-like compared to that asus. we'll see if performance, cost, and battery life can live up to that profile and form
 
wow .. i was planning to buy the macbook air after the refresh in june/july .. but i was only going to purchase that to get the "mac experience" - already have a powerful pc desktop

but i think now i'm gona put that on hold and just get the macbook airs with ivybridge ... should be exciting
 
Am i the only one a bit wary about the switch to 22nm/tri-gate. It seems Rev A-ish to me and thus may have issues no?
 
MonkeySee.... said:
Surely they can't blatantly rip off the form factor?

To me this is worse than the Samsung infringement.
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I think it takes way more than a design sketch to create a fully functioning, well form-factored computer. I feel that they have successfully succeeded in what until till this point, only apple has been able to do. Metal keys and body are nice and provide a nice differentiation from the air.
 
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