Intel and Microsoft Muscling Into Tablets This Year
Expect Wintel to be moving into the tablet business too.
Tablet PCs themselves aren't new, but the entire segment is revitalized now thanks to Apple and its iPad.
While ARM-based chip solutions, such as Nvidia's Tegra family and even Apple's A4 chip, seem well suited enough for tablets, Intel isn't going to leave that market alone.
Apparently, Intel is working on a "dedicated architecture and dedicated solution" for tablets. Carrypad got a soundbite from Intel's Mooley Eden, and Tech Report transcribed his comment.
So Mooly, a question regarding how soon can we see ULV into tablets. Anytime soon?
I believe that ULV, if you look at it, you might find [a] few in tablets, but I believe the tablets will require different solutions. Probably they'll require even thinner TDP than what you have seen in the ULV. And for the tablets we've got special solutions that we're going to [uncover] at the coming Computex. We'll have a dedicated silicon for the tablet space. Because the ULV, although it's great for 0.75" or 0.8" notebooks, might be too hot for a tablet, and you need even a lower-power solution. We decided to come with [a] dedicated architecture and dedicated solution to address the tablet segment.
Intel's new Atom-based Moorestown chips could do the trick, but then again, there could be another new reveal at Computex.
In related news, MSI and Asus have long announced ARM-based tablets that run Android – but Digitimes reports that OEMs are now shifting over to Intel and Microsoft powered devices after some "persuasion" from the two giants.
While the ARM-powered Android tablets are still in the works, they may no longer be in the spotlight.
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Media consumption devices like the iPad are fine and with the correct apps they will find a place (for example, Jake Humphrey uses an iPad on the BBC F1 coverage for all his notes, user feeds and race data - a perfect use for the device), but having something that can create (or at least edit) as well as consume will also be very useful.
Example: tablets may be great for running presentations, but I'd like to be able to make corrections when I see them instead of going back to another computer and transferring over.
I got fed up of Jake holding the damned thing by the end of quali to be honest. And he admited himself that the thing was much better as a mirror once the sun came out!
And he admited himself that the thing was much better as a mirror once the sun came out!
That's just Apple's choice of screen material as opposed to a flaw in the concept - 10" AMOLED with matte glass wouldn't have as much of a problem in direct sunlight.
Dear Microsoft,
Please, please, buy the design for the HP TC1100 from HP and make it a tad thinner, with i5/i7. Then, add a multi-touch quality screen like the Latitude XT2, with variable pen tip sensitivity and superb multi-touch.
When installing your chosen version of Win 7, please also set the damn display DPI to 125% to make touch much, much easier. Also stop a few services that are simply not needed as this will be a consumer device, with, obviously, a domain device that technies can later enable.
Also stick on a nice 8 hour battery with an option of an extended battery that tilts the device slightly up/forward.
If you do that, I'll buy one.
Thanks.
P.s. If you insist on sticking Windows onto devices with really slow Atom cpu's, people may simply laugh at you. (The Archos 9 could have been good but its so damn slow. Not your fault though)
keep dreaming excalibur
Starts to cry at 'spsfinest's' reply.
Agggggghhhhhhhhhhhh!
I'll have to carry on using my Acer 1820ptz instead (sniff)(Not a bad machine at all)