THINK
that touchscreens are restricted to tablets? Intel says think again.
As
the company's Mooly Eden revealed at Las Vegas' Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
this January, touch is high on Intel's agenda with Windows 8. "In the last
30 years, the number of transistors has gone up one million per cent,"
said Eden. "But if you look at the user interfaces, we didn't do a lot. We
didn't have enough computer power to do what people wanted to do.
"There'd
been a lot of experiments, but you didn't have the power [to make] natural user
interfaces. We've seen people moving to touch, but for some reason touch
skipped the notebook. But it's not going to skip the Ultrabook any more."
It
looks like we'll be seeing convertible touch Ultrabooks that run Windows 8 in
late
2012 - at CES we saw a prototype waved around with a sliding screen, while
another had GPS and gyroscope for gaming.
There
was also a demo of the Intel Nikiski concept, which has a transparent trackpad
that doubles as a mini screen so you can preview emails and tweets.
Despite
there being over 20 new Ultrabooks launched at the show from the likes of
Samsung, LG and Dell, there remains criticism that Ultrabooks are too
expensive.
Apparently
75 Ultrabooks are currently in various stages of design, some of which will be
touch-capable. Eden hinted that the 15-18mm thickness of many Intel Ultrabooks
is "just the beginning."
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