Sunday 29 January 2012

2012 will be a year of Ultrabooks


If 2011 was the year of the tablet, then 2012 will ultrabooks try to corner market share. The new, slim, beautiful-looking machine will try to steal back the slate he tore away from netbooks, laptops and PCs over the past two years. For some time now, laptops have languished in terms of design aesthetics. They are thick, heavy plastic and manufactured. No wonder the form factor easily succumbed to the call slim tablet. Ultrabooks are trying to Intel, in partnership with PC makers like Acer and Lenovo, to make the laptop sexy again.

In fact, the recently concluded Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in the United States, each PC maker worthy of the name was showing off its own version of ultrabooks slick - hard to imagine that the term was coined by Intel only in June 2011. To promote these machines thin, the mastodon chip (including power products for over 80% of all computers) has set aside a fund of $ 300 million, and analysts estimate that by 2015 nearly 40% of all laptops will ultrabooks.