Everyone knows tablets are hot, but it is surprising to see that tablets were far and away the most-mentioned topic in media coverage from CES. In a presentation called “Trends to Watch from the 2012 CES,” Shawn Dubravac of the CEA showed data from Simply Measured: with the exception of ultrabooks, tablet mentions were almost 3 times any of the other key CES trends (6,126 for tablets vs. 4,060 for ultrabooks and 2,261 for OLED). And Apple didn’t even participate in the event!
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Category Archives: Mobile PCs
Can VIZIO Cross Over from TVs to PCs?
News that VIZIO plans to enter the PC market caught quite a few CES attendees off-guard, and it was a common topic of conversation at the show this week. The company announced plans to market all-in-one (AIO) and notebook PCs.
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ASUS Preps Two New Tablets
ASUS CEO Jerry Shen primed the pump for the company’s next generation tablet while also announcing the availability of its EeePad Transformer Prime on Monday at CES. During the Nvidia press conference, Shen said that ASUS had a $249 tablet in the works. The unnamed tablet was also going to have the latest elements, such as a Tegra 3 processor and Android 4.x OS, but would come with a 7” screen with a 1280 × 800 resolution.
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Nvidia Reveals New Features in Tegra 3
Nvidia shared some new features of its latest smart phone and tablet processor, Tegra 3, on Monday at CES. While the Tegra 3 is called a quad core processor, the part actually has a fifth core that the company is calling a SMP (symmetric multi-processing) processor. The fifth core essentially improves on the experience of the devices using it. The new features that Nvidia highlighted were around touch and battery life.
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Will Panel Prices Increase in Q1’12?
After falling every month since June, panel prices have finally stabilized. Notebook PC panel prices have been flat since October, TV panel prices have been flat since November, and monitor panel prices have stopped falling this month.
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