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Intel might have miffed the Tablet market

by on03 September 2015


Why do you need one?


As Intel unveiled its Skylake chips yesterday it was hammering in another nail in the coffin of tablets.

Tablet sales have been slumping as the world discovers that Steve Jobs dreams of keyboardless netbooks were just an Apple Kool-Aid inspired bad trip.

While Intel has been spending a fortune trying to get its chips under the bonnets of the various Apple clones, Skylake might be the tool, which disembowels the technology.

Skylake will allow a PC to cut its weight and thickness in half, while speeding up the overall performance. It needs less heating, making some laptops go fanless, and almost no wires with its USB-C cable compatibility.

Notebooks with Skylake will look sleek as tablets, have a great battery life, a keyboard you can type on and be light.  It will also have all the Windows 10 goodness you can eat which makes your device a PC rather than a poxy mobile phone

The question is why would you bother with a standalone tablet?

IDC analyst Loren Loverde warned that the new features supported by Skylake, and in combination with Windows 10, will enable more attractive PC designs that will address today's needs better than older products, and compete better with tablets and phones.

Another IDC analyst, Shane Rau, said that it would now be the PC markets, which will make a comeback.

But that doesn't mean the tablet market will disappear overnight. Skylake will not be available on laptops until later this year, and it takes a long time to revive a market as big as the PC business.

The Tame Apple Press insists that Apple will save the tablet with its even bigger iPad later this year.  

It is odd to see Apple pundits forced to peddle out-of-date old-fashioned technology, however amusing this might be. Sooner or later someone is going to have to admit that tablets were never the game changer Apple said they were.

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