The ceo of Acer is expected that the prices of ultrabooks in 2013 decreased will to 500 dollars. That is almost a halving compared to now. Acer would be in the second quarter ultrabooks for $ 800 offer.
Acer ceo Jim Wong expects the prices of ultrabooks mid next year with 20 percent down will be up to 799 à 899 dollars, while in 2013 a further decline to even $ 499 is a fact. All manufacturers go, according to him, ultrabooks release, which is partly the cause of the fall in prices would be.
The shortage of hard drives for Acer, according to Wong, in the fourth quarter of 10 percent to 15 percent. That is much less than the overall deficit, by hdd suppliers at 30% to 35% estimated it would be. Probably this is due to the priority that the major manufacturers to get with the delivery.
Acer would currently to 100,000 ultrabooks per month and his goal of 250,000 to 300,000 deliveries at the end of this year, claims Wong opposite to Digitimes. The notebookindustrie seems to agree that ultrabooks price drop to be truly successful. Intel, the market would be financial support to keep costs down. Among others, Asus is going to make use of glasvezelbehuizingen in place of aluminum to reduce the cost, as confirmed with the manufacturer recently Tweakers.net.