after Intel announced second-quarter earnings for 2012, Otellini stated that the company achieved its volume goals for for the first half of the year and is pleased with the category's performance.

This clashes with that Ultrabook sales flopped in the second quarter.

However, those analysts' reports don't take into consideration that second-generation Ultrabooks with the newer Ivy Bridge processors just started launching in June.

June is the last month of the second quarter of the year, a quarter when laptop sales typically are poor. (Even sales for Apple's super popular MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops were down 10 percent from the same period a year ago, according to .)

The last half of the year, with back-to-school and holiday sales are the more important seasons for laptop sales, so we can't count Ultrabooks out yet.