Here Come a Crap Ton of Ivy Bridge Ultrabooks

After abounding delays Intel's Ivy Bridge processors were assuredly unleashed on the apple endure month. Now actuality comes the anthology version. Next anniversary we'll get a attending at the aboriginal beachcomber of Ivy Bridge ultrabooks, address of Intel.

The bifold amount 17-watt Ivy Bridge chips will ability this year's crop of ultrabooks, and they'll about bifold the acceleration of video encoding. They're aswell afterpiece in achievement to their cloister amount counterparts than any bearing of chips yet. They're bigger and faster and good, but that's accepted from the newer generation. The added absorbing $.25 are what Intel's accomplishing with its all-embracing gameplan for ultrabooks.

In a blog post Intel says it will appearance off Ultrabooks powered by its new third bearing Intel Amount processors at Computex Taipei 2012 next week. The aggregation aswell letters some abominable numbers: Intel is acquainted of 110 Ultrabooks in the pipeline. That's a huge amount because there are alone 21 Ultrabooks out there appropriate now. In accession to the abbreviate but acceptable clamshells we've apparent so far, Intel says there are "30 touch-enabled systems" on the way of which 10 will be convertibles.

Intel has aswell adapted the adapt that ascertain Ivy Bridge ultrabooks:

Thin designs: Ultrabook accessories accept to be 18mm or beneath in array for systems with displays beneath than 14 inches and 21mm or beneath for systems with displays 14 inches or more; some accepted systems are abundant thinner.Responsive: All 3rd bearing Intel Amount Ultrabook accessories deathwatch in a beam – traveling from a actual abysmal beddy-bye accompaniment (S4) to abounding use (keyboard interaction) in beneath than 7 abnormal and deathwatch from "sleep" access even faster. Additionally, they accept to be acknowledging while active, acceptation they will amount and run admired applications quickly.Extended array life: Ultrabook accessories accept to action at atomic 5 hours of array life, with abounding affair the recommended akin of 8 hours additional in even the sleekest anatomy factors.Security enabled: Anti-Theft technology is a hardware-based technology that makes it accessible to lock down an Ultrabook arrangement if it's absent or baseborn and helps defended acute advice stored on the device's harder drive.

Ultrabook™ systems appear enabled with Intel® Identity Protection technology to accommodate a added defended online acquaintance for activities like shopping, cyberbanking or gaming online. It uses chip-level affidavit agnate to accouterments tokens and is broadly admired by aegis experts as a added defended access than software-only authentication.Fast I/O: Ultrabook accessories based on 3rd bearing Intel Amount accept to accept either USB 3 or Thunderbolt technology to accredit abundantly fast alteration capabilities.Processor: Powered by the Intel Amount processor ancestors for Ultrabook.

The better changes to the requirements are added array activity and a accelerated I/O port. Which are nice, really, but the improvements this annular are experience-focused, not specs-based. You're not traveling to apprehension the aberration in your ultrabook accepting its accouterments "exposed" to the anti-theft stuff, until you lose your laptop. Same goes for the instant-on responsiveness, which is convalescent bearing by bearing as OEMs amount out their own tricks, after just afterward Intel's blueprint. And while Intel didn't acknowledgment it in its release, it's assured that lesser-used-but-impressive ultrabook features—like the auto-updating Smart Connect tech it just signed a civic chargeless Wi-Fi deal for—will accomplish their way into this bearing at a college rate.

There is still no chat on if absolutely you'll in fact be able to buy an Ivy Bridge ultrabook, but, hey, we'll yield this as a starting point.