With ultrabooks not seeing an immediate rise in sales as they should have, manufacturers are now contemplating offering cheaper ultrabook clones to the masses. While Intel has always pushed the concept of ultrabooks forward, people are yet to embrace it in a big way. The main reason behind this, the manufacturers feel, is that the prices of these ultrabooks are very steep. This might well be a very potent reason for ultrabooks not seeing a rise in sales as they should have.

Most of the ultrabooks out there start at around …

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The laptop makers of early 90-th surely had got talent. Gosh, this machine even came with a blow up doll. And you say Macbooks and Ultrabooks are cool

(This is from the movie Brain Donors)

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The guessing contest is over and now it is time to announce the winner. But first, you may be wondering, what was the number that I thought of. I promised to release the password to a zip archive so you could see for yourself, and here it is:

M3J~5^w6.qU}o

And here’s what you are going to find inside that file:

%#^!@#*&^ -> 8761

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Consumer demand for laptops, netbooks, and tablet computers is projected to be strong through 2015. Projections vary, but even the most conservative of them estimate combined sales in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Analysis firm Forrester predicts sales of 195 million tablets from 2010 to 2015. They estimate Apple will be the biggest seller by far; no surprise there. Another firm, eMarketer, predicts tablet sales of 81.3 million in 2012 alone. They’re quite bullish on the market, obviously. All predictions say that tablet computer sales will eventually surpass laptop …

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I thought it would be fun to run a little giveaway, so I brainstormed ideas for a quick and easy contest that a lot of people could take part in, and here’s what came to my mind. I’ve thought of a number in a range of 1 — 9999, saved it in a text file, made a password-protected .zip archive out of it and uploaded it here.

So, what do you need to do in order to get your $10? Here’s the plan.

1. Tweet about this contest and/or Like it using …

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