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We're live at CES 2012, at the Intel press event this morning. The company is showing off ultrabooks, touch and Ivy Bridge, and demoed Windows 8 on stage.
Owen Williams
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Jan 9, 2012 11:32 EST
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Owen Williams Welcome to this Neowin.net live event. Coverage will begin shortly.
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Owen Williams We're just waiting in the hallway... with everyone else
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Dave Legg
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Owen Williams Nice and cosy in here, thats for sure.
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Owen Williams OK, going in. Be right back...
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Brad Sams we are now seated
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Brad Sams Owen is taking some pictures, will post sonn
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Brad Sams lots of Ultabooks to be seen here
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Owen Williams Ultrabooks everywhere here...
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Brad Sams Owen is uploading pics of the books
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Owen Williams Video starting... talking about Android...
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Owen Williams Intel branded ultrabook anyone?
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Brad Sams Telling everyone to take a seat, show will begin soon
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Brad Sams The image below looks like a convertible tablet with keyboard
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Brad Sams lights just dimmed, starting now
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Brad Sams Justin lively on stage
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Brad Sams "Intel loves to talk about evo of computers"
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Brad Sams ha, evolution of dance guy is on stage
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Brad Sams he is doing the entire routine
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Brad Sams breaking down some MC hammer as we speak
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Brad Sams Owen is uploading a picture, of it
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Brad Sams They are calling this the ultabook press conference
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Brad Sams 1 billion transistors on a chip
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Brad Sams he is running through a lot of stats that "he will not be talking about" in an ironic way
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Brad Sams talking about small form factors, obviously ultra books
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Brad Sams The presention will be dedicated to "user experience"
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Brad Sams ODM and OEM are building the intel ecosystem
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Brad Sams first question intel asked, "what do people really want to do with their PC"?
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Brad Sams just dropped a corney joke...big miss
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Brad Sams wanted ultrabooks to be unwired, no need to wait, at a price that works, peace of mind
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Brad Sams "People do not want to wait for PC, they want the PC to wait for the user"
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Brad Sams "Always on always connected, battery life should not be even thought about"
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Brad Sams People dont want to think about their device, it just works, and if it breaks, someone else should be at fault, not the user
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Brad Sams Price is key for the ultrabook market, average consumer prices, exceptional products
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Brad Sams want tro drop the ultrabook market below $999 price point
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Brad Sams Look at new idea pad for lenovo on stage
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Brad Sams brand new device, picture uploading now
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Brad Sams Showing off arc soft Album software of pics from pac-asia
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Owen Williams They're talking about Intel "turbo" technology - giving a boost to a CPU when it needs it.
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Brad Sams They created a photo album automatically, from pics selected...nothing really spectacular
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Brad Sams It took 100 photos, that were 3 MB each and created a photo album that was less than 3 MB total
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams Moving on to new graphics enign performance
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Brad Sams showing a demo of traning crossing bridge
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Brad Sams train crossing bridge*
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Brad Sams Basic demo, a lot of objects on the screen (bridge, train,) being blown up and each piece is calculated independently
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Brad Sams Showing another demo of creature on the screen (a troll)
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Brad Sams Showing the power of the CPU in the new ultrabooks to affirm that they are not cheap, or slow cpus
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Brad Sams Intel is trolling us, literally
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Brad Sams Ivy bridge supports DX11
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Brad Sams Big news dx 11, running on ultrabooks, gaming looks rather good for an ultra book
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams Switching things up, to identity theft
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Owen Williams He wasn't even driving on that demo... ha
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Brad Sams Ultrabooks comes with intel built in security software to help enhance online purchases.
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Brad Sams Ultrabooks can have NFC onboard!
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Owen Williams It's Mastercard paypass ON A LAPTOP
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Brad Sams basic idea, tap your card on the laptop, and it makes the payment online
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Brad Sams Card will only work with your laptop (or registered pc)
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Brad Sams Moving on to being thin
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Brad Sams Wow is not a technology word, it is a consumer word
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Brad Sams 18mm is only the beginning for thinness
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Brad Sams Talking about how they slimmed down each component to achieve the smaller size
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Owen Williams No socket for processors to save size
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Brad Sams Basic idea, ultrabooks are a modern technology masterpiece.
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Brad Sams All ultrabooks are 18mm or below...and they will get thinner
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Brad Sams Intel touting how they chunked $300m to get ultrabooks off the ground
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Brad Sams this fund was key to keep the marketprice low, prices should continue to drop.
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Brad Sams Walking thru all the laptops
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Brad Sams So what';s next...thats the next topic
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Brad Sams previously there was not enough computing power to do many things mainstream
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Owen Williams They're mocking DOS...but have Windows command prompt on the screen
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Brad Sams "Touch skipped the notebook market"
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Brad Sams So touch will not be skipping ultra books
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Brad Sams Ultrabooks with touch coming! No sacrifices
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Brad Sams Intel did market research, consumers loved ultrabooks with touch
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Brad Sams Windows 8, ultrabook touch screen, could be huge!
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Brad Sams Showing off windows 8 with notbook
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Brad Sams Boo, teased windos 8 images, but now showing windows 7
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Brad Sams Showing the demo, flicking back and forth between images, and other navigation techniques
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Brad Sams Showing off the sensors in the ultrabooks, has built in gyroscope
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Brad Sams Showing new form factor, that converts to thin tablet with keyboard
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Brad Sams they call them sliders or convertibles, not entirely new but relatively thin
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Brad Sams These sliders will be huge with Windows 8,
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Brad Sams Touting Windows 8 machine now, clamshow with windows 8
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Brad Sams looks brilliant
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Brad Sams Ultrabook with keyboard, transperent touchpad, on backside of ultrbook you can see through the touchpad to see data
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Brad Sams They have a working prototype!
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Brad Sams Running windows 8, owen is getting photos
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Brad Sams Touchpad does not pick up your palm, only fingers, simple but huge innovation
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Brad Sams Inel has a patent on it too
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Brad Sams Windows 8 in this form factor looks awesome, this is huge folks
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Brad Sams This is a fully working prototype, this looks exciting
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Brad Sams No longer open and go, but now close and go
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Brad Sams Intel making strategic partnerhip with Nuance
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Brad Sams This is interesting as Nuance was bought by Apple?
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Brad Sams Nuance will help Intel use speech with Unltrabooks
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Brad Sams Native speech recognition on the ultrabooks, no cloud involved (aka no Siri)
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Brad Sams Accents are no issue for the speech recognition.
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Brad Sams The speech technology will support 9 languages.
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Brad Sams The idea is to speak to your computer in English and have it convert on the fly to Mandarin
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Brad Sams The key is the cpu power is just about there, coming soon.
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Brad Sams Recapping all the UI, Voice, cpu power but there is more.
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Brad Sams Taking a look into Intels R&D lab
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Brad Sams Showing kinect like interaction with Ultra book
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Brad Sams This is quite nice, no need to touch the pc to intereact with it
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Brad Sams "Where are we today"?
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Brad Sams 75 designs in the pipeline
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Brad Sams Ultrabooks at largers isze are in demand too
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Brad Sams 28% say they would not move to UB unless they have a bigger screen...14in and 15in models coming soon
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams This comes with partnerships and affordable price points
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Brad Sams Taking about digital marketing...boring stuff
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Brad Sams People dont buy cpus, they buy experiences,
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Brad Sams Surprise, Intel will be marketing ultrabooks in 2012
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Brad Sams More marketing jab, how they are using social media, etc
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Brad Sams Showing a toshiba and intel promo video
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Brad Sams its the "Ive been framed video series"
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Brad Sams "It's not a computer, it's an ultrabook"
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Brad Sams Intel is running over time, CEA doesn't like that!
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Brad Sams SHowing more demo videos, "what was once impossible, now practicle"
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Brad Sams Showing an Intel advert for Ultrabooks
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Brad Sams Intel has another keynote tomorow where they will make more announcements.
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Brad Sams Last minute, showing Kinect on the PC!
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Brad Sams Using Kinect to interact with Intel promo material
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