Tablet and Touch Based Notebooks Emerge as the Future of Personal Computing

The entire personal computing segment is in the midst of a tectonic shift with the general preference shifting big time towards mobile and portable devices. The desktop device seems to be on the way out and its place is being taken up by the laptop or notebook brigade. That's not the complete picture though as both in turn run the risk of losing some serious market share to the tablet PC segment, if not being marauded entirely. Analysts with the research firm DisplaySearch predict the mobile PC market could be worth 762.7 million devices in 2017, a steep jump over the 367.6 million devices that were shipped in 2012. No points for guessing, it's the tablet devices that has emerged as the preferred device for personal everyday computing. Another notable shift in consumer preference is the increase in demand for touch enabled devices. The corresponding figures for tablet devices are 579.4 million devices shipped by 2017 while the same for 2013 is like to be around 256.5 million units. That consumers are hooked on to touch based devices can be ascertained from the research finding which claimed shipment of touch enabled notebooks are expected to increase by 48 percent by 2014 in spite for the entire notebook segment as a whole is poised to decline 10 percent within the next 4 years. Also, among the notebook segment, the ultrabook shipment is expected to make up two-third of the touch enabled notebooks to be shipped in 2013. DisplaySearch findings though point out a not too exciting future for Windows 8 claiming the Microsoft operating system won't emerge as the deciding far in procuring a new touch based notebook. Thus far, Windows 8 has had a limited impact on driving touch adoption in notebooks, due to a lack of applications needing touch and the high cost of touch on notebooks,” said Richard Shim, a senior analyst at DisplaySearch. “Form factors aimed at differentiation from standard clamshell notebooks will help to drive consumer adoption of touch-enabled notebook PCs, starting in the second half of 2013.” Tablet and Touch Based Notebooks Emerge as the Future of Personal Computing is a post from: E-Reader News

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