Smartphones are increasingly powerful, and now, the latest are the tablets - a little bigger than smartphones, and with the processing power similar to a netbook. Given this scenario, where more evolved?
Intel, during Computex 2011 event, suggested one way: the ultrabooks. More than a name, there is a whole concept behind this new nomenclature to describe a gadget. Thus, it is necessary to scrutinize the new proposals by Intel for this new series of handsets, beginning with the processor.
The first ultrabooks market come with such processors Intel's Sandy Bridge. The name given to the second generation of the company's Core processors, is already famous in the notebooks.
The Sandy Bridge were released earlier in the year 2011 and have a structure of 32nm, and the new 2.0 Turbo Boost, which gives a better performance for the processor and has lower power consumption than the older generation.
Already thinking about the second wave of his ultrabooks, Intel announced that the handsets launched in 2012 will have processors codenamed "Ivy Bridge", which promises a fuel consumption rate so low energy point of being revolutionary in their small 22 nm. The last promise of the Intel processor in the question will come in 2013, with the new line code-named "Haswell." See a video comparing the Intel Core i & and the second generation, "Sandy Bridge" in the video below.
Another difference that can be done using the new processors is the size and thickness of ultrabooks. On average, ultrabooks have 11 inches, a body with less than 2cm thick, distributed in 1kg. The low consumption of your appliances will cause the battery has a real autonomy of up to 10 hours. As connection, USB 3.0 ports and the brand new Thunderbolt (which reaches speeds 20x faster than USB) will meet in appliances present.
In short, these new devices are a fusion between the practicality of a netbook with a better response time, the usual tablets. Because they are super lightweight and can be easily carried in backpacks and bags, which is ideal to take on the street.
At first, the most damaging may be the small storage capacity, since the ultrabooks will use flash memory, which often roam between 8 and 64GB in order to save on energy consumption. One gains, however, the size and usability, but is lost in storage. They should cost on average U.S. $ 1 000.
The announcement was the first ultrabook Asus UX21. Its configuration consists of one case, 1.7 cm thick (thinner than the Macbook Air), a 11.6-inch screen (1366 x 768 pixels), glass trackpad, weighs little more than a pound, two USB ports ( 2.0 and 3.0), a mini-HDMI output, and equipped with Intel Core i7. You will have 4GB of RAM and was first shown at Computex. Its launch is scheduled for the end of the year.
Remains, then, wait and know what the future of ultrabooks market.
