Intel Formally Updates Ultrabook Specification

[RedundantInk]

Intel’s revised Ultrabook specifications include touchscreens, a thickness of 23 mm or less, and better battery life and general performance.

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[whyso]

Intel's ultrabook specifications are kind of anal-retentive. Touchscreen really?

 

[donovands]

Very meh. I want a notebook with Ultrabook dimensions, a proper quad-core processor and a 650m gddr5 version minimum for less than $1,500. Medium gaming, grat everything else. You can keep the touch screen, thanks.

 

[ingtar33]

so in short- they could have simply said "you need a Haswell CPU for it to be an ultrabook."

 

[Afrospinach]

Intel's ultrabook specifications are kind of anal-retentive. Touchscreen really?

Hey, they gotta "raise the bar". Gotta admit though, touch screen is slightly less annoying than a track pad if you really don't have space for a mouse and it is not like ultra books were ever a budget item.

 

[InvalidError]

I would ditch the touch-screen and voice-command.
Fingerprints on a display I use for work or reading bug the heck out of me and speaking to a computer is nowhere near as fast and accurate as keyboard+mouse... but it may be slightly better than on-screen keyboards for tablets - at least for people who do not feel icky about talking to computers.

 

[hannibal]

Hello computer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9kTVZiJ3Uc

 

[Jeff Krogue]

Uhm, why doesn't intel just spell it out and say you have to use Haswell? Its all arbitrary anyways, its just a small laptop.

 

[shafe88]

I would ditch the touch-screen and voice-command.
Fingerprints on a display I use for work or reading bug the heck out of me and speaking to a computer is nowhere near as fast and accurate as keyboard+mouse... but it may be slightly better than on-screen keyboards for tablets - at least for people who do not feel icky about talking to computers.

I bet Microsoft had something to do with the touch screen requirements, thinking that more touch screens means more metro use.