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Windows 8 to spawn new breed of low-cost laptops

The pairing of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 with processors from companies like Qualcomm and Nvidia is expected to spawn a new kind of low-cost laptop, according to IHS-iSuppli, possibly threatening Intel's overwhelming dominance in laptops.

"After more than 30 years of domination by a single microarchitecture--Intel Corp.'s X86--the PC microprocessor...market finally is set for some real competition," Matthew Wilkins, an analyst at IHS-iSuppli, wrote in a research note today.

This will happen as shipments of ARM processors soar in the coming years, eventually shipping in about one out of every four laptops in 2015, according to Wilkins.

And those ARM processors won't be running in systems with Linux operating software or Google's Chrome OS necessarily. The lion's share will be inside Windows 8 laptops, according to Wilkins.

"Spurred by next year's introduction of [Microsoft's] new ARM-enabled Windows 8 operating system, ARM-based systems will account for 22.9 percent of global notebook PC unit shipments in 2015, up from 3 percent in 2012," Wilkins said. "Shipments will reach 74 million ARM notebooks in 2015, compared to 7.6 million in 2012."

They won't break the bank, either. Systems will be priced below $700--the same "value" segment today dominated by Intel's Celeron M and Atom processors as well as Advanced Micro Devices E-series chips, wrote Wilkins. And those laptops are typically well below $700, with many in the sub-$500 segment.

Windows-8-on-ARM will, of course, require PC vendors to break from Intel and AMD--at least at the low end of the market. But they already have to some extent with tablets . Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad runs its WebOS software on top of Qualcomm processors and Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Acer's Iconia Tab 500, for example, run the Android OS using chips from Nvidia. It wouldn't be a leap of faith to envision PC vendors bringing out inexpensive laptops with ARM processors.

Intel, of course, is not standing still. It has a strategy for a MacBook Air-like laptop design called the Ultrabook that PC vendors are expected to adopt. By 2013, the Ultrabook is expected to be low-cost and run on Intel's first system-on-a-chip for mainstream laptops codenamed Haswell. And if the price-performance balance of power doesn't shift dramatically one way or another in the next few years, Intel will maintain the coveted performance advantage over ARM.

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Runaware, the leading supplier of on-line computer software demonstrations, announced nowadays that Coastal Laptop or computer Corporation, a developer of Support Administration software program based mostly in Fort Myers, Florida, has increased sales by 20 % by utilizing Runaware’s TestDrive services. TestDrive enables prospective consumers to try out a total-showcased model of Coastal Computer’s ESC service administration and dispatching software package without getting to download and install it. “It takes genuine-time evaluation to produce real-time income,” according to Coastal Computer’s Tom Fanelli, vice president of Income and Advertising and marketing. In addition to improved company’s sales, evaluation expenses have actually absent down.

“We utilised to have to battle to get individuals to install the computer software as soon as they obtained the CD or downloaded the application,” ongoing Fanelli. “With the TestDrive service we don’t have that difficulty. It means fewer obstacles throughout the sales method. The instantaneous gratification on the prospect’s component benefits in a shorter sales cycle for us. With a twenty percent improve in earnings since we started making use of TestDrive in December 2002, we can’t be anything at all but delighted.”

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Coastal was looking to offer its consumers with a better trial remedy than the pricey and inefficient approach of sending out demo CDs. Fanelli now studies: “We ended up shelling out an exorbitant sum of dollars on mailing CDs to each and every request we would obtain. When factoring in the CDs, duplication, packaging, delivery and labor involved, the expense was obtaining substantial. Secondly, by the time the prospect received the software package the project had lost some of its priority. This of program lengthened the income cycle.”

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“We went from sending out a lot more than 800 CDs per month to fewer than 100”, continues Tom Fanelli. “Sales to potential customers from the TestDrive service typical $ 300 far more than income to prospective customers from our obtain demo service. It seems as if the on the web demo attracts the far more important potential customers, far more prepared to devote cash on further functions and include-ons.” The ESC application and on the web evaluation company can be discovered at http://www.coastalcomputercorporation.com.

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