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The Most Anticipated Ultrabook of 2012
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If you’ve watched our extensive laptop coverage
from CES 2012, only to look down at your own bus-
ted-up old clunker of a machine, then 2012 might
be the year you buy a new laptop.
And with so many high-end, high-design systems
hitting store shelves this year, there are more wor-
thy candidates than ever to choose from, and many
of them fall into the still-new ultrabook category.
If you need a refresher on what “ultrabook” means,
it’s an Intel marketing term (much like Centrino
was), encompassing a growing category of Windows
laptops that are thin and reasonably powerful (ty- HP Envy 14 Spectre
pically under 188 millimeters thick with the latest Estimated price: $1,499, Q1 2012
Core i-series processors), with good battery life and
at least some solid-state-drive (SSD) storage. The winner of our Computers and Hardware Best
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of CES category, this glass-covered beast is certainly
With all the ultrabooks already confirmed for 2012, unique. We’re still not convinced a glass-lid laptop
it’s a fairly safe bet that your next laptop will be a can survive in the wild, but the NFC support and
very thin one. great audio controls are big pluses.
Running from just under $1,000 to $1,500 or more,
the 2012 laptops that seem the most exciting aren’t
exactly the least expensive we’ve ever seen, espe-
cially after several years of falling prices, but at
least they all look good.
Our question for you is: based on design, price, com-
ponents, and features, which of these highly antici-
pated 2012 laptops are you hoping to buy this year?
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Samsung Series 9
Estimated price: $1,399, Q1 2012
Dell XPS 13 Last year’s big design winner was the ultraslim Sam-
Estimated price: $999, Q1 2012 sung Series 9, which hit before anyone had ever
heard of an ultrabook. This year’s version is even
The look and feel remind us of Dell corporate Lati- slicker, but still on the expensive side for what you
tude line spliced with a MacBook Air, rather than get.
previous XPS laptops, and inside it has edge-to-edge
Gorilla Glass over the screen and a large clickpad. Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga
Estimated price: $1,199, Q2/3 2012
Another laptop we’ll have to wait for Windows 8 to
get our hands on, the Yoga works perfectly fine as
a standard clamshell laptop, but its lid flips all the
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way back to form a touch-screen tablet, providing
extra flexibility (no pun intended) in how you use it.
Acer Aspire S5
Estimated price: $999, Q2/3 2012
The S5 is 15mm thick–2mm thinner than last year’s
Aspire S3–weighs less than 3 pounds, and has a sleek
Onyx Black magnesium alloy chassis. More impor-
tantly, the ports–HDMI, USB 3.0, and Thunderbolt–
are tucked away via a motorized rear port door.
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Not a 15-inch MacBook Air.
15-inch Apple MacBook Air
Estimated price: $1,699 or more, sometime in 2012
A shot in the dark here, but there have been enough
rumors and online chatter about a larger version
of Apple’s MacBook Air that it must be on at least
some people’s list of most-lusted-after laptops of
2012. If there is indeed a 15-inch Air, it could very
well hit sometime around midyear, when the next
generation of Intel CPUs is expected, and would most
likely involve a decent premium over the existing
11- and 13-inch versions.
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