As about Ivy Bridge , the new Intel processor platform made ​​of 22-nanometer technology, more details are known about the second generation of ultralight computers promoted by the manufacturer. If anything characterizes this line of computers is to integrate SSDs to achieve superior performance while minimizing equipment overweight, although their presence is a considerable increase in the base retail price, and a smaller amount of storage available to users, two handicaps that negatively impact sales of this and other similar platforms.

For the next batch of Ultrabooks, manufacturers considering another approach would be different, according to DigiTimes sources suminsitro chain for Taiwanese manufacturers, most assemblers adopt hybrid units for its new models , to reduce production costs and get the both a retail price more reasonable and superior performance to traditional magnetic drives.The hybrid discs, such as Seagate Momentus XT , incorporate a “small” format SSD cache, usually 4 or 8 gigabytes , which store the files used to boot, and most commonly used to reduce access times and search , improving the overall performance of the computer, keeping the original storage capacity, typical of magnetic disks.

Because storage units totaling between 10 and 15% of the total cost of the Ultrabook , manufacturers try to attack on this front with hybrid drives, which are priced at wholesale more than 50% cheaper than units 128 and 256GB SSD. As indicated by DigiTimes, sources say the new models with this type of hard drive will be below $ 700 . To be specific, and adding fuel to this fire, the Acer corporate president, Jim Wong, predicts that prices Ultrabooks equipped with SSD + HDD is set between $ 600 and $ 700 in the last quarter of 2012.