{"id":33354,"date":"2011-09-06T13:35:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T11:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=33354"},"modified":"2011-09-06T13:38:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T11:38:39","slug":"notebook-providers-limit-initial-ultrabook-shipments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/33354-notebook-providers-limit-initial-ultrabook-shipments.html","title":{"rendered":"Notebook providers limit initial Ultrabook shipments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Acer\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/352522-Acer\">Acer<\/a>, <a title=\"Lenovo\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/349182-Lenovo\">Lenovo<\/a>, <a title=\"Toshiba\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/349102-Toshiba\">Toshiba<\/a> and <a title=\"Asus\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/363482-Asustek\">Asustek<\/a> are among companies that are reportedly limiting initial Ultrabook shipments to below 50,000 units as they test market demand according to sources in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>While <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a> has a firm hold on the Ultrabook market thanks to the successful Macbook Air and Pro ranges, <a title=\"Intel\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/307489-Intel\">Intel<\/a> wants to encourage more partners to enter the market with higher volumes. Intel are set to host a conference on September 14 to discuss strategy and try to resolve the technology bottlenecks that current partners are experiencing.<\/p>\n<p>Intel plans to have Ultrabooks account for 40 percent of global consumer notebook shipments by 2012, a difficult target to achieve as the notebook sector has experienced low shipment volumes thanks to the current state of the global economy.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"Digitimes news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitimes.com\/news\/a20110905PD215.html\" target=\"_blank\">Digitimes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First-tier notebook vendors are likely to limit initial Ultrabook shipments below 50,000 units as they test the market<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":25021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2006,605,947,131,1525,733],"class_list":["post-33354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-acer","tag-apple","tag-asus","tag-intel","tag-lenovo","tag-toshiba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33360,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33354\/revisions\/33360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}