Intel Outlines 'Ivy Bridge' Roadmap as 1st Half 2012, and Previews 'Ultrabook' Laptop Designs

[jnpy!$4g3cwk]

Ultrathin not for every application

Intel describes the ultimate evolution to these ultra-thin laptops in a 3 step process. The first systems based on their current designs should be available this winter. Meanwhile, they plan on continuing to push processor power designs in the coming years to enable even more efficient designs.

I'm certainly not against this trend for consumer and appliance laptops. I just hope everyone doesn't drop everything else. A lot of professional users will continue to want ever-faster CPUs as available, full size keyboards, more screen pixels, and maintain the current 15" and 17" screen real estate. Human fingers and eyes are not evolving rapidly enough to change this! I use both MacBooks and MBPs, including a 17" MBP with antiglare. If you want an actual desktop replacement on the go, you need something more than an ultrathin 11"-13" glossy that you can stuff in a handbag.

The problem I see looming is that everyone jumps on the ultra thin/small bandwagon and drops the larger models, even when demand remains strong, because ultralights are fashionable in the marketing department.

 

[AidenShaw]

I'm certainly not against this trend for consumer and appliance laptops. I just hope everyone doesn't drop everything else. A lot of professional users will continue to want ever-faster CPUs as available, full size keyboards, more screen pixels, and maintain the current 15" and 17" screen real estate. Human fingers and eyes are not evolving rapidly enough to change this! I use both MacBooks and MBPs, including a 17" MBP with antiglare. If you want an actual desktop replacement on the go, you need something more than an ultrathin 11"-13" glossy that you can stuff in a handbag.

The problem I see looming is that everyone jumps on the ultra thin/small bandwagon and drops the larger models, even when demand remains strong, because ultralights are fashionable in the marketing department.

Good points, maybe Apple will finally listen and make a "MacBook Workstation", where performance and flexibility overrule "thin and light".

They don't need to drop any current model, just add a new model with power and connectivity that a mobile video/photo/audio/design professional may need.

 

[qzxyu]

Think these chips will have any significant performance boosts for the iMacs as well? Or is this more of a notebook revolution?

 

[jnpy!$4g3cwk]

Think these chips will have any significant performance boosts for the iMacs as well? Or is this more of a notebook revolution?

Ivy Bridge? Probably. But, who knows when Apple might use them. It just depends on how the release fits in to the product cycle.

 

[twoodcc]

please apple update the macbook air next week!

 

[bigwig]

TDP improvements come primarily from die shrinks. Since Haswell will use the same 22nm process as Ivy Bridge, how does it reduce TDP by half without killing performance? Personally, I'd much rather have a big performance increase than a reduction in TDP.

 

[Obi Wan Kenobi]

Battery life - tech Q

V late contribution to this thread, and possibly a stupid question, but does having a processor chip with a lower power consumption mean that battery life will increase significantly? I'd assumed the screen and hard drive were the biggest drains on the battery.

 

[maclaptop]

In the mean time I expect Apple's personal computer sales will increase again in the third and fourth quarters of 2011. Given the overall personal computer market isn't doing well, Apple's market share will continue to grow.

I imagine a healthy 15-17% market share is in Apple's future sometime in the next few years.

Too bad it's not reflected in my Apple Stock.

 

[maclaptop]

I'm certainly not against this trend for consumer and appliance laptops. I just hope everyone doesn't drop everything else. A lot of professional users will continue to want ever-faster CPUs as available, full size keyboards, more screen pixels, and maintain the current 15" and 17" screen real estate. Human fingers and eyes are not evolving rapidly enough to change this! I use both MacBooks and MBPs, including a 17" MBP with antiglare. If you want an actual desktop replacement on the go, you need something more than an ultrathin 11"-13" glossy that you can stuff in a handbag.

The problem I see looming is that everyone jumps on the ultra thin/small bandwagon and drops the larger models, even when demand remains strong, because ultralights are fashionable in the marketing department.

I'm with you in thinking this way.

Unfortunately the biggest influence in the world is the company that pioneered appliances with sealed batteries, pentalobe screwed , "don't you dare touch that computer we just sold you" Apple.

Now with iCloud that in Apple Speak "Automagically" does everything for you, the word "choice" is being made obsolete in AppleLand.

Come with us, we have a place in the walled garden for you where no thinking is required. Stevie will tell you how to live....

With all of the good work, and terrific achievements in computing that Apple has done over the years, I am fascinated that the technorati is not pushing back on the "dumbed down" Macs.

However that said, many haven't even noticed the convenient elimination of the expression "Mac OS" from Apples latest dialogs. Now it's simply OS X and before long, totally neutered and replaced with the ever fabulous money making, app seeking code called iOS.

All in the name of making sure that it's so simple "Granny Can Use It"...

 

[KingCrimson]

ll in the name of making sure that it's so simple "Granny Can Use It"...

Hobbyists will always have Linux.

 

[accessoriesguy]

now with the new macbook air out, all apple has to do is, update the macbook air more often, or lower the price some more, and they shall dominate the future laptop market.

 

[genovelle]

Hardly....its a thin laptop...try and find somewhere else to put those ports on something that thin. The only thing you could really say is remotely mac like is the glass trackpad, and even then there are others that had glass trackpads BEFORE Apple.

Get a grip man.

Are you nuts?!!! When he stacked them in the video the looked identical except for the color. Also, please give me one model of track pad that used glass before Apple. The reason it was created was to mimic the feel of the iPhone for gestures which other track pads still don't offer.