Windows 8 to spawn new breed of low-cost laptops
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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.
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20080472-64/windows-8-to-spawn-new-breed-of-low-cost-laptops
This is great for consumers, but bad for certain business models. Already the computer repair business is taking hits because people would rather just buy a new computer instead of fixing their old one. It’s also going to effect my business of renting computers. Business’s would rather just buy a bunch of cheapo computers instead of renting them and allowing people to re-use them. This is just another step into wasting more of our natural resources.