Make Way for New Hybrid Designs at CES: Hot Product of the New Year?
By Dennis Kuba
December 29, 2011
December 29, 2011
- Industry analyst Tim Bajarin predicts hybrid tablet/ultra-thin laptops will be “the hot product of the New Year.”
- “But unlike swivel-based laptop/tablet convertibles of the past, these devices will be ultra-thin laptops with tablet-based screens that pop off and turn into modern day tablets,” writes Bajarin in PCMag.
- “The big change is going to come when Microsoft introduces Windows 8 for tablets and Windows 8 for Ultrabooks,” he explains. “The basic idea is that it will use Windows 8 when in notebook mode and Windows 8 tablet version in tablet mode. Both will have the Windows 8 Metro UI on them so that the user experience will be the same.”
- Bajarin expects we will see as many as five hybrids at CES, but notes that none of them can be released until Microsoft launches the “commercial versions of Windows 8 on both platforms, which is currently slated for October 22, 2012.”
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