Vizio’s Ultrabook PCs: Real MacBook Air Rivals, at Last?

PCWorld’s Jared Newman notesthat five months ago, Vizio impressed hom with a line of slick new laptops – the first PCs by the company known best for its televisions, and that with its first Ultrabook PCs, Vizio seems to have nailed the concept with machines built from a single slab of aluminum just like Apple’s MacBooks, and featuring a 1600 x 900 panel for the 14-inch variant and a 1920 x 1080 Full HD display for the 15-inch Vizio Ultrabook – not quite a Retina display, but close.

Other similarities to the MacBook Air include Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors (Vizio also offers a Core i3 model), 4 GB of RAM and 128 GB of solid state storage (although Apple’s Airs can be upgraded to 8 GB of RAM and up to 512 GB SSD capacity). Both makers claim up to 7 hours of battery life, and both offer USB 3.0, but Vizio uses HDMI output instead of Thunderbolt.

However a major parting of the ways is in price. Vizio’s 14-inch Ultrabook starts at $900, and its $950 Core i5 model is $250 cheaper than the closest equivalent 13-inch MacBook Air, and the Vizio 15-inch version starts at $950 with a Core i3 processor.

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