All attempts by Intel to make the masses ultrathin laptops and productive ultrabooks, have so far failed. With each new processors generation the company set more ambitious goals: to bring to market Ultrabooks worth no more than $ 399 , or bring them to a certain point to 40%.
According to ABI Research experts, in the last year Ultrabooks took about 12.3% of the total market for new laptops (22.5 million out of 182.7 million units sold). In absolute terms, sales increased year Ultrabooks twice, but to talk about achieving goals Intel still is not necessary.
Ultrabooks cost ranges from $ 940 to $ 1540, the majority of models sold for over $ 1200, and this category of mobile devices can not be called affordable. The statistics were transformable devices and combining the characteristics of a laptop and tablet.
If we are not talking about smartphones, after a certain level of sharing LTE mobile devices will be able to abandon backward compatibility with the 3G networks - data more modern infrastructure will be preferred.