OK, so yesterday you started getting the news about the strong pushes at CES 2012.
“Laptops: The Empire Strikes Back”
Last year CES belonged to the Pads. This year the big push is to sleek, super thin and fast performers. And you’ll be happy to hear that what used to cost up there in the stratosphere will now be in the less than $1,000 range. Vizio’s the newest of the players. I talked about that yesterday.
(image credit: The Verge)
Sony is the lagger with a prototype that’s behind glass and which doesn’t look too different from the the Vaio Z line with W8 and a tablet that slides over a keyboard.
Intel has announced over 75 Ultrabook designs for 2012 – 50% of them 14 and 15 inchers (we’ll see), and that’s gotta tell you something as well as partnering with Nuance (Dragonspeak) for voice recognition. Also, there’ll be a Kinect like gesture control.
Catch the article on Intel NFC and vid on Neowin.net (http://www.neowin.net/news/intel-demos-nfc-on-the-ultrabook-video) so now you won't have to sit there and laboriously type in all the billing info:
Should be a very interesting year for laptops.
“3D” T.V.:
First of all, it isn’t 3D.
It’s manipulation, and if you move around, the effect changes. The good news? You won’t need glasses. The bad news? There’s no real programming for it, and what of it there is doesn’t really “make your day” as nothing is really added to the program you’re watching by the 3D effect. Toshiba has a “9 Zone” one, but so what? Nine zones of “meh” are still “meh”. The Vizios are sleek and up to 47” and up to $900, but the cost/gain here doesn’t make it worth it.
My best advice here is to wait.