IPad change PC design: Flash, ARM processors and attractive appearance
United States Science and technology website CNet the other day pointing out that, between the light and heavy, consumers chose the former, between thin and thick, they chose the former. Is the preference of consumers on the characteristics of light, thin, making more and more laptops started to copy Apple iPad design. The following are three aspects of the PC design changes because the iPad:
1. Flash : iPad (iPhone, not to mention) is the main driving force for promoting the development and production of Flash memory. Apple is obviously always has a special liking for the Flash. Motherboards use solid state drive on their smaller, lighter. 2011 edition MacBook Pro disassembly results show, standard hard drive and solid state hard drive size disparity.
The past two weeks, as Micron-Intel, Flash and solid state hard drive manufacturers such as Toshiba and SanDisk have announced the launch of higher density memory. Senor said: “Intel and Micron want to publish the 16GB sample, in a size no United States regular issue of solid state drives created on the 128GB capacity. ”
Analysts expect many vendors will be launched next year higher density, lower prices of Flash memory and solid state drives, more like Air and Samsung Series 9 laptop will go on sale. Despite the high-performance solid state drives may never be a more cost-effective hard disk drive (HDD) opponent, but 256GB and more storage space, solid state drive prices will eventually drop sharply, so that it become the mainstream in the second half of 2012 market design.
2.ARM processor : with the continuous development of manufacturing technology, small size and low power consumption performance of ARM chips will be promoted, applied more and more feature-rich PC device. A5 has replaced the PC processor and Nvidia Tegra processor function. In addition, the Intel processor to move into tablets and Smartphones market. More specifically, Intel PC-grade processor would follow like A5, chip design, add more features on the main processor, chip more energy-efficient. Evidence of this trend will be reflected this summer, when Apple is embedding the efficient Sandy Bridge chip Intel MacBook Air and the market.
3. beautiful appearance : analysts believe consumers look very like iPad, which because of its perfect combination of appearance and functionality of many individual users and business users are hard to resist. The same applies to the MacBook Air and similar portable design.
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