If you are thinking about buying an Ultrabook, better wait until October. Of course, if you can’t wait, and you have $800-$1,500 or so to spend, you’re going to love the lightweight super thin form factor. You’re going to love the fast start up time and long battery life. Here are three reasons to wait:

• WINDOW 8 should launch in October, preinstalled on laptops, computers, and tablets. Windows 8 offers a major redesign of the Window’s operating system, and features a new desktop that drops icons in favor of panels. On a touch screen, you can swipe the panels to open and close them fast.

• The Ivy Bridge chipset from Intel will be widely available in ultrabooks, offering significant performance improvements over the current chipsets.
• A slew of new models will be announced from multiple manufacturers by this fall. Some of them, such as the ones Dell have announced, will be hybrid ultrabook-tablets, where you can touch the laptop screen just like on a smart phone or tablet.

Finally, prices will continue to come down. So, why spend $1,000 today for an ultrabook when $800 will get you the same or better in a few months?

Also look for models that don’t quite earn the Intel-approved Ultrabook label but are just as thin and just as fast. These non-ultrabook ultrabooks will likely have the AMD chips, which are typically lower cost than Intel’s chips.