Desktops, notebooks, tablets: Just five years ago, those three words defined three distinct classes of products. But now consumers are being asked to choose among all-in-ones, two-in-ones, convertibles, mini-tablets, ultraportables, and phablets. With Intel's new "Bay Trail" Atom chip, due this fall, you can expect the market to diversify even more.
And that's a beautiful thing.
For all of the various types of computing devices we might purchase, each is defined by its operating system. We buy a Windows machine, an Android device, or an iPad.
But that may soon change. Intel's Bay Trail supports both Windows and Android, and hardware manufacturers will be able to build machines that boot into either OS—or both. Their OS implementations notwithstanding, system prices could drop as low as $150, Intel executives have claimed.
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