Anticipated CES Trends: Thinner Ultrabooks, Ivy Bridge and Thunderbolt
By Rob Scott
December 23, 2011
December 23, 2011
- “Laptop and desktop computers aren’t always the most high-profile of products shown at CES,” suggests CNET, “but with an influx of new, thin, ultrabook laptops expected, as well as an updated CPU platform from Intel, you’re sure to get a detailed view of what PCs will be on shopping lists for the rest of 2012.”
- CNET expects we should see the following trends:
- Laptops will get thinner: “…nearly every computer manufacturer will get in on the act with at least one 13- or 14-inch entry.”
- Nothing will be close to last year’s evolutionary Sandy Bridge leap: “…the industry is really waiting for Intel’s next-generation CPU architecture, code-named Ivy Bridge, due out in mid 2012.”
- The impact of Windows 8: “…we could see ARM-based laptops taking over some of the low end of the market previously owned by Intel’s Atom CPU line.”
- Ultraportable crossovers and hybrids, some running Android and others with Windows.
- Consumer and business laptops will cross streams with “less distinction between business and personal tools, and you’ll see consumer PC models made available to business customers and vice versa.”
- Thunderbolt’s coming-out party: “If Ivy Bridge isn’t going to receive a big push at CES, we also have to wonder about Thunderbolt, the fast new connection standard Intel introduced on Apple’s 2011 Macs. A few PC products already have Thunderbolt ports, but Ivy Bridge will popularize the standard by supporting Thunderbolt at the chipset level. Once that happens, we anticipate an influx of Thunderbolt-equipped peripherals like fast external storage hubs and external graphics cards.”
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