ASUS CEO: Fold / Unfold laptop will cost between $1,000 and $1,500

We had already heard that ASUS' Fold / Unfold laptop concept -- which we originally spotted at CES in January -- would be shipping later this year, but that little fact just got a lot more official. In an interview with TechRadar, ASUS CEO Jerry Shen confessed that this very machine would be shipping in the September to October time frame, and that the end-user price would be "somewhere between $1,000 and $1,500." Just make sure we're not stuck with integrated graphics and we'll be pleased as punch, okay Jerry?

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[Frostblade10 Posted Mar 21st 2009 11:23PM]

I can see crumbs and grit getting stuck under the sliding part and scratching the hell out of the white part around the track pad.

[JW Posted Mar 22nd 2009 3:11PM]

i love grits!

[jsmrekar Posted Mar 22nd 2009 1:21AM]

If this was an apple laptop it would be overpriced,but it isnt apple, so i would buy it.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 22nd 2009 1:28AM]

It seems to me that IBM's butterfly keyboard was more useful than this idea...

[ch3burashka Posted Mar 22nd 2009 1:35AM]

What's with the obnoxious bright magenta LEDs?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 22nd 2009 2:15AM]

Well let's wait to see what the specs are before we get all cocky about what a great deal it is compared to a MacBook shall we? The overpriced shoe could well be on the other foot.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 22nd 2009 2:56AM]

In the PC world, there are dozens of other "feet" which can accommodate a vast array of "shoes".

In the world of Apple, there is only one foot, and they and they alone decide what shoe goes on it and how much it costs.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 22nd 2009 2:54AM]

Looks good.

[Wwhat Posted Mar 22nd 2009 7:53AM]

On the vid it seems the screen touches the keys, dunno about that.
I'm not enthusiastic about style and the colouring either but tastes differ I guess.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 22nd 2009 8:53AM]

This definitely looks cool and I appreciate anything to make laptops smaller and lighter to carry, yet still very productive (large screen and keyboard)

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 22nd 2009 1:33PM]

Its stupid. It will look cool but be severely underpowered. The industry needs to stop focusing purely on looks and focus on power.

[hahajose Posted Mar 22nd 2009 3:59PM]

$1000-$1500 seems pretty reasonable.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 22nd 2009 7:38PM]

Give me a decent C2D, 4gb ddr3 and dedicated graphics and im sold.