CES: Thinner, Lighter, Faster Laptops with Longer-Lasting Batteries

By Rob Scott
December 7, 2011

PC World reports that while tablets and smartphones may be all the rage right now, we should expect to see some impressive laptops next year that “promise to be thinner, lighter, and faster” and feature “longer-lasting batteries.”
The article suggests that holding off until CES before making a new laptop purchase may be worthwhile.
Some 30-50 ultrabooks are expected to be announced at January’s show; we should expect better graphics and longer battery life with Intel’s next-gen Ivy Bridge chips; and Windows 8 is anticipated to be the biggest change of any Microsoft release since Windows 95.
“The category will kick into high gear when Intel’s next-generation CPUs, code-named Ivy Bridge, hit the market. Ivy Bridge’s power utilization and performance, together with steadily falling prices on solid-state drives, should make these superthin laptops more affordable and appealing,” predicts the article. “By the end of the year, we may even see ultrabooks with screens that rotate and fold down to transform into a tablet. The emphasis on touch interfaces in Windows 8, together with the thinner and lighter design of ultrabooks, could make this new generation of convertible laptops more desirable than the convertibles of the past few years.”

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