The ASUS UX21, which 11.6-inch baked sweat bread slicer which doubles up as an ultrathin laptop, is entrance in Sep with the cost tab of reduction than $1,000. That’s according to the Commercial Times, which cites retailer sources in identifying ASUS’ assertive pricing strategy. Word is which the Taiwanese association is aiming to cost the UX21 during 80 to 90 percent of the cost of Apple’s competing products, namely the MacBook Air family. Of course, with the second-gen Intel Core i5 (or i7) CPU inside it, ASUS’ latest laptop has the poignant spec value over Apple’s likewise aluminum-encased laptops, so we’d disagree simply relating the MBA’s cost will safeguard the UX21 flies off store shelves. ASUS has the excellent new story of violation by cost barriers, as shown by the $200 Eee Personal Computer X101 which was voiced to one side the UX21 during Computex, so if any one was starting to give us the 17mm-thick chunk of present gorgeousness for reduction than $1,000, it substantially had to be Jonney Shih’s crew.
