I should have added that to my post, I waited this long because I learned a few years ago never to buy the first-model revision. (I had a bad first-year redesign Honda Accord of all cars and will never make that mistake again) I saw the same thing on the first-gen ultrabooks (pre Asus Ultrabook Prime). (It seems the manufacturers were rushing to play catch-up with Apple).
I found this hidden gem and have used it in several projects. It is the simplest ORM I have ever used in Java. (I use Eclipse to generate the JPA class from database tables, and I a done).
I did quite a bit of research for a new ultrabook. I am a software consultant and needed a hardware update. One of the surprising things I found was that most of the ultrabooks do not have dedicated home and end keys which I regularly use for coding. I finally came across the Lenovo Yoga book, it was almost high-def, had all of the keyboard keys including home and end, however as soon as I got the laptop out of the box, the keyboard had different "flex" in different areas of the keyboard. When typing "0" in the upper right the whole keyboard actually moved. This was disappointing as 3 other Yogas I tried had the exact same problem.
I returned the Yoga and found the Acer S7 (It does not have home and end keys, but it has dedicated page up and page down) which I plan to remap to home and end. (The base Acer ultrabook does not have these).
I have been quite impressed with the S7, the screen is incredible, keyboard is nice. Battery life is not excellent, but that is not a show stopper since the longest of my in-person meetings are less than a few hours.
Good luck! Finding just the right "ultrathin" ultrabook for development can be a little tricky right now.
We also received a similar email this morning from Amazon. Our eggs are not all in one basket, but they were definitely weighted that way. Lesson Learned!
We mostly use Amazon's webservices for price comparisons on a book site, but it's interesting to note they left our AStores up and running, but obviously we won't generate any money from them....