Speaking at a conference in Taipei, Acer Chairman J.T. Wang said specifications that define the emerging category of ultrabooks will become the "mainstream model for tablet PCs and notebooks in the next five years," according to a report from Taipei Times.
Wang added that the release of ultrabooks will stimulate a "stalled" Wintel (Windows-Intel) "framework."
He also said that the line between laptops and tablets will become less distinct. That comment matches up with the message that Intel has proselytizing: that ultrabooks will be very touch-centric, giving rise to hybrids that straddle laptop and tablet designs.
At an Intel Capital conference, CEO Paul Otellini said Windows 8 in 2012 will usher in touch-based ultrabooks. "Starting with Windows 8, you have a mainstream operating system incorporating touch. Our view is that in the ultrabook lines, touch is a pretty critical enabler," he said last month.
Wang also repeated an oft-cited mainstream market trigger price of $699. To "increase ultrabook sales volumes, prices need to be kept at about US$699," Wang said, according to the report. He also repeated his prediction that Acer's ultrabook shipments should be between 250,000 and 300,000 in the fourth quarter.
2011年12月7日星期三
2011年11月2日星期三
HP Developing Windows 8 Tablets and Ultrabooks
Right after HP revealed that it's keeping the PC division under the same roof, the company revealed plans for a Windows 8 tablet and ultrabooks.
Thursday during a conference call explaining why it will be beneficial to keep the Personal Systems Group in-house, HP CEO Meg Whitman confirmed that the company has no plans to bring the TouchPad tablet back from the dead. In fact, HP will use Windows 8 instead of the defunct webOS going forward, but it's still unclear whether the company plans to retain the "TouchPad" branding, or go with something else.
"I think we need to be in the tablet business and we're certainly going to be there with Windows 8," she said. "We're going to make another run at this business."
As for webOS, its future is still up in the air according to the conference call. But now that HP has made its final decision concerning the PC division, Whitman said the next order of business is to evaluate the platform it acquired from Palm. Right now HP is still working on the software, pumping out updates to current tablet and smartphone owners.
As indicated earlier, HP may license out the software to third parties much like Microsoft does with Windows Phone, and is supposedly negotiating with those companies now. But as of this writing, there hasn't been an official nibble made known to the press, nor has HP publicly announced that any kind of potential licensing deal is actually on the menu.
Is HP holding out to use webOS on ultrabooks? During Thursday's conference call, Todd Bradley, executive vice president of HP's Personal Systems Group, revealed that the company is "very focused" on the "ultramobile" space of sub-17 millimeter notebooks. He also admitted to the pressure HP is currently facing in the short term thanks to the "hangover" caused by its August 18 revelation of exploring a spin-off.
"HP had yet to announce its intentions for the Ultrabook market and has been notably quiet as Lenovo, Asus, Acer, and Toshiba have all announced new ultra-thin models," Deron Kershaw, an analyst at GAP Intelligence, said in a research note.
Thursday during a conference call explaining why it will be beneficial to keep the Personal Systems Group in-house, HP CEO Meg Whitman confirmed that the company has no plans to bring the TouchPad tablet back from the dead. In fact, HP will use Windows 8 instead of the defunct webOS going forward, but it's still unclear whether the company plans to retain the "TouchPad" branding, or go with something else.
"I think we need to be in the tablet business and we're certainly going to be there with Windows 8," she said. "We're going to make another run at this business."
As for webOS, its future is still up in the air according to the conference call. But now that HP has made its final decision concerning the PC division, Whitman said the next order of business is to evaluate the platform it acquired from Palm. Right now HP is still working on the software, pumping out updates to current tablet and smartphone owners.
As indicated earlier, HP may license out the software to third parties much like Microsoft does with Windows Phone, and is supposedly negotiating with those companies now. But as of this writing, there hasn't been an official nibble made known to the press, nor has HP publicly announced that any kind of potential licensing deal is actually on the menu.
Is HP holding out to use webOS on ultrabooks? During Thursday's conference call, Todd Bradley, executive vice president of HP's Personal Systems Group, revealed that the company is "very focused" on the "ultramobile" space of sub-17 millimeter notebooks. He also admitted to the pressure HP is currently facing in the short term thanks to the "hangover" caused by its August 18 revelation of exploring a spin-off.
"HP had yet to announce its intentions for the Ultrabook market and has been notably quiet as Lenovo, Asus, Acer, and Toshiba have all announced new ultra-thin models," Deron Kershaw, an analyst at GAP Intelligence, said in a research note.
2011年10月7日星期五
Asus: Ultrabooks and Tablet can co-exist
Asus says ultrabooks won't threaten tablet market. Meanwhile, HP and Dell are gearing up to offer ultrabooks of their own.
Despite all the reports and rumors about how one device will kill off another device, there's one constant we've seen thus far: smartphones, netbooks, notebooks, tablets and desktops have seemingly worked out their differences and are coexisting together. Sure tablets are the big craze for now because Apple (once again) came up with something innovative, and manufacturers are seemingly trying to cash in on Apple's success. But all of these form factors have a primary focus and an audience that will always come calling.
Of course one of the latest fears is that the dazzling new tablet form factor may be eclipsed by this new thing called an ultrabook. It will be powerful, slim and supposedly cost under a grand. Asustek Computer CEO Jerry Shen, whose company already has a few Android tablets on the market and an ultrabook on the way, is resaauring pessimists (aka market watchers) that both form factors will coexist on the market, that one won't be a threat to the other... before the launch of Windows 8, that is.
Right now Asus is gearing up to launch its Eee Pad Transformer 2 which will sport a quad-core SoC and Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich." However Shen said that Asus is still having difficulty bringing the retail price of its ultrabook down below Intel's suggested $1000 price point. The company reportedly won't achieve this price goal until Ivy Bridge CPUs become available in the first half of 2012. Ivy Bridge will also reportedly enable ultrabooks with 13.3-inch displays to sport a hefty resolution of 2560 x 1440, or rather, "retina quality."
In related ultrabook news, Taiwan-based supply chain makers claim that -- despite the uncertainty of its Personal Systems Group -- HP will release an ultrabook by the end of the year, followed by Dell with its own ultrabook offering sometime in Q1 2012. Sources state that Taiwan-based Quanta Computer has already started ODM production of HP's ultrabook whereas Wistron is currently designing a 14-inch model for Dell which will be unveiled at CES 2012 in January 2012.
Sources are also stating that Wistron is the ODM for Acer's 13.3-inch Aspire S3, and Compal Electronics is working on Acer's 15-inch version in addition to Lenovo's IdeaPad U300. Pegatron Technology is reportedly manufacturing the 11.6-inch UX21 and the 13-inch UX31 for Asus.
Sounds like it's going to be a busy six months.
Despite all the reports and rumors about how one device will kill off another device, there's one constant we've seen thus far: smartphones, netbooks, notebooks, tablets and desktops have seemingly worked out their differences and are coexisting together. Sure tablets are the big craze for now because Apple (once again) came up with something innovative, and manufacturers are seemingly trying to cash in on Apple's success. But all of these form factors have a primary focus and an audience that will always come calling.
Of course one of the latest fears is that the dazzling new tablet form factor may be eclipsed by this new thing called an ultrabook. It will be powerful, slim and supposedly cost under a grand. Asustek Computer CEO Jerry Shen, whose company already has a few Android tablets on the market and an ultrabook on the way, is resaauring pessimists (aka market watchers) that both form factors will coexist on the market, that one won't be a threat to the other... before the launch of Windows 8, that is.
Right now Asus is gearing up to launch its Eee Pad Transformer 2 which will sport a quad-core SoC and Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich." However Shen said that Asus is still having difficulty bringing the retail price of its ultrabook down below Intel's suggested $1000 price point. The company reportedly won't achieve this price goal until Ivy Bridge CPUs become available in the first half of 2012. Ivy Bridge will also reportedly enable ultrabooks with 13.3-inch displays to sport a hefty resolution of 2560 x 1440, or rather, "retina quality."
In related ultrabook news, Taiwan-based supply chain makers claim that -- despite the uncertainty of its Personal Systems Group -- HP will release an ultrabook by the end of the year, followed by Dell with its own ultrabook offering sometime in Q1 2012. Sources state that Taiwan-based Quanta Computer has already started ODM production of HP's ultrabook whereas Wistron is currently designing a 14-inch model for Dell which will be unveiled at CES 2012 in January 2012.
Sources are also stating that Wistron is the ODM for Acer's 13.3-inch Aspire S3, and Compal Electronics is working on Acer's 15-inch version in addition to Lenovo's IdeaPad U300. Pegatron Technology is reportedly manufacturing the 11.6-inch UX21 and the 13-inch UX31 for Asus.
Sounds like it's going to be a busy six months.
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