Your next laptop, so Intel were at a little conference in Computex in Taipei, where the talk about there specks to the manufacturers, so the manufacturers know what to put around Intel’s chips. So looking at their ultra books, aka a mac book air look alike, there looking at some serious battery specks, and will be pushing 8 hours. It will have thunderbolt or USB 3. Their also looking Windows 8 with touchscreens, so we are going to be treated to a number of technologies, and a step change in ultra-book/laptop technologies. so if anyone can wait to buy a laptop, now would be a good time to wait, it will probably take a year or so before these hit the main stream and have got through maturity stage of their product life cycle curve.
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http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/31/intel-to-show-third-gen-ultrabooks-requires-usb-3-or-thunderbolt/