I thought the situation improved a bit with the appearance of ultrabooks; however I haven't had a chance to test one of them thoroughly.
Did they bring higher quality or they are just thinner with slightly better specs/battery?
Did they bring higher quality or they are just thinner with slightly better specs/battery?
One problem seems to be that we're such a tiny addressable market at this point that the best PCs never make it into stores. You won't find any Haswell i7's in ultrabooks at Best Buy / Staples / etc; just the lower-end i5 and HD5000 graphics clones each brand made. This one was only available from Amazon, which seems to pick up something like 30 units a month from ASUS. Samsung makes a very nice configuration of their Ativ Book 9 Plus that's both beautiful and powerful, but when I checked my local stores they only stocked cheaper models.