$699 Ultrabooks to be Available in Starting 2013
Yes, those $700 Ultrabooks are coming, but not until next year.
We have been hearing about $700 Ultrabooks for quite some time and it appears that PC vendors are now aiming for this price point in a much more determined way. Digitimes quotes supply chain makers in Taiwan claiming that there will be many $699 Ultrabooks available next year.
Not surprisingly, these will be not the kind of systems you are going to brag about. For $700, you can expect "fiberglass-reinforced plastic or metal-plastic hybrid chassis, slim HDDs or HDD/SSD hybrid drives, conventional batteries and non-touch screens," the publication wrote. The purpose of these computers is simply to generate sales volume and help the category get off the ground.
If you want the aluminum unibody or carbon-fiber chassis, SSDs, Li-polymer batteries and Windows 8 touch screens, you will still have to shell out at least $1,000 next year. Research coming out of Taiwan estimates global Ultrabook sales to end up at about 16.7 million units this year, and 31.6 million units in 2013. A recent study published by IHS slashed a previous Ultrabook unit forecast from 22 to just 10.3 million units for this year. IHS forecasts 44 million Ultrabooks to be sold next year.

PSST.. Heads up.. we already have $700 models from Acer.
WHAT!? AMD has their own "Ultrabook" type laptops?!?! Thank you for the heads up!
I just want a laptop with 1920x1080 display and integrated GPU that is a quad core with 8GB of RAM. I don't care about a hard drive, I'm just going to slap in a Samsung 830/840 anyway! I'm not going to game, just want a laptop that can do the basics like Libre Office and web browsing!
Is it to much to ask for and for it to be less than or ~$600?
Bigger meh.......Why get an Ultrabook when the only advantage is that it's 1kg at most lighter
Well, I suppose that depends on what you're going to be doing with them. Considering some of the hardware in the more expensive models, it's not to simply do what your everyday tablet performs, though there is always going to be somebody who buys it because it's shiny regardless of its specs.
Personally, I'd use one for gaming plus some development work. Somebody I used to work with wanted to get a MacBook Pro for development; this will just be a more powerful option for the price.
"Hey mate, I just bought an ULTRABOOK!"
"What's that?"
"It's a laptop that's a little bit thinner than other laptops and costs twice as much"
"Oh, so you bought a laptop, why didn't you just say so?"
Where did you get that? It doesn't seem like it's available off Lenovo website yet. I'm looking to replace s205 soon.
Sleekbooks*. That kind of proves your point though, lol.
Basically what we always got at that price point...
Trinity APU ultra-thins at $500-$600 are going to spank 'book' butt ...