Intel showed at the Cebit, an ultrabook that was equipped with the yet to introduce Ivy Bridge cpus and a touch-sensitive screen. According to Intel, we can similar machines at the end of this year in stores expect.
Striking on the prototype was finished. Intel does more prototypes of notebooks, such as the Keely Lake concept last year at Computex, but almost always involves machines that clear quickly put together and so not the best build quality. That was this time not the case. The finish was of a very high level, and the device felt as if it was without much effort about to be released soon.
The ultrabook had a gray body with on the inside a white underside and a black bezel around the 13,3″screen. Under the chiclettoetsenbord, that is a good attack, there was a touch pad of a reasonable size with including the two physical mouse buttons. A sticker on the left mentioned the presence of an nfc chip. Left and right were a usb 3.0 port placed, and further on we saw a card reader and sim card slot.
A demonstration with the recently issued Consumer Preview of Windows 8 had us logical point, but was unfortunately out. Although millions of people the trial download, Microsoft firms not ready for Windows 8 on their devices to show. We had therefore to do with Windows 7 and an application of Zinio, which magazines can be read.
The application was well built, but very quickly he could not be called. When scrolling and zooming, we saw a lot of glitches, but we are inclined due to a lack of softwareoptimalisatie. The system was powered by a dual-core-Ivy Bridge-cpu and that would be no trouble with the display of what is essentially a high-res picture. The touch screen was capacitive, like we are used to from modern smartphones and tablets, and felt fine. Light touches were directly registered and the addition of a touchlaag made the display, fortunately, is not noticeably thicker than we are used to from ultrabooks.
We could use the device, unfortunately, not sitting behind a plain desk test. That is a pity, since the big question still is whether a touchscreen is fine for working on a laptop, you will during the work often has an arm must extend to operate the touch screen. That question we must, therefore, unanswered.
Although Intel often prototypes manufactures who never make it to real product kick, seems to be the arrival of ultrabooks with touchscreens a certain case. Many manufacturers would have already shown interest in such devices and some might even already in production. Which manufacturer the prototype produced, if the present employee of Intel not tell us, but it would be in any case to a company that is also currently all ultrabooks produces. Intel expects that manufacturers in the fourth quarter of this year, as Windows 8 is on the market, with similar ultrabooks on the market.