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When Apple's original MacBook Air debuted—and raised eyebrows everywhere—industry watchers figured it wouldn't be long until other PC makers jumped on the ultra-thin notebook bandwagon. However, while the MacBook Air line is still going strong, the luster seems to have fallen off ultrathin notebooks for two major PC manufacturers: first Dell cancels its Adamo notebook line after substantially discounting their prices,… Read More

Following on the heels of Dell, computer maker Hewlett-Packard has decided to drop the price on its Envy 13 ultraportable notebook computer to $999 (after a $450 instant rebate), hoping to attract previously indecisive buyers before the company, in all likelihood, begins to roll out new traditional and ultraportable notebooks in 2011. Like the Dell Adamo, the HP Envy 13 was introduced more than a year ago as a direct rival to the likes of the… Read More

Hewlett Packard’s marketing arm undoubtedly intended the brand name “Envy” to refer to the emotion the notebooks stir up in adjacent coffee drinkers down at Starbucks. But given the direction HP has taken the Envy name, it might more appropriately refer to the company’s own envy of Apple.