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Is the Asus Zenbook a disappointment at retail? (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) If you believe Digitimes, Asus and Acer have cut ultrabook orders by 40 percent due to sluggish demand for the ultrathin laptops. Of course, Digitimes is often wildly wrong, so take this news with the requisite grain of salt. Related stories Ultrabooks to see fast growth, says analyst HP says it will soon offer ultrabooks The problem with ultrabooks, thus far Digitimes claims that Asus and Acer planned to order a combined 250,000 to 300,000 ultrabooks by the end of 2011.
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Weak sales of the Acer S3 and Asus Zenbook series Ultrabooks have forced both Acer and Asus to scale back orders by 40%, DigiTimes reported on Thursday. The two companies are said to have slashed orders from between 250,000 and 300,... Read Post

Are Windows-based Ultrabooks built to the same engineering and manufacturing standards as Apple's now-legendary MacBook Air? We removed the shells from both an ultrathin Acer Zenbook Ultrabook and an Air to find out. What we discove... Read Post

Is the Asus Zenbook a disappointment at retail? (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) Asus and Acer have cut Ultrabook orders by 40 percent due to sluggish demand for their computers, Digitimes is reporting, citing sources. According to the publ... Read Post