Original URL: https://www.theregister.com/2011/08/22/intel_ultrabooks_windows_8_to_drive_notebook_market_in_2012/
2012 to be year of the ultrabook
Notebook makers desperately seek novelty
Posted in Personal Tech, 22nd August 2011 09:53 GMT
World+Dog will next year be after ultra-skinny laptops running Windows 8.
So says Simon Lin, chairman of Wistron, a Taiwanese contract manufacturer specialising in notebooks.
The slimline MacBook Air-style machines - dubbed by Intel "ultrabooks" - will be a key growth driver in 2012, Lin said during a chat with DigiTimes.
They will account for 10-20 per cent of laptop sales during 2012 - if Wistron's output is typical.
Laptop makers are, of course, desperate for novelty now that there's no longer the buzz around netbooks that there once was, and most folk have a standard-size machine.
Will super-skinny laptops be the big thing in 2012? Let us know what you think. ®