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@ 2011/11/09Research firm IHS iSuppli is predicting that Ultrabooks will account for 43 percent of worldwide notebook PC shipments by 2015, despite the fact that Windows-centric ultra-thin PCs are just now starting to arrive on the market.
This year, Ultrabooks will account for just 2 percent of global shipments, iSuppli says. That is from just a smattering of devices from the likes of ASUS and Toshiba. But iSuppli argues that ultra-thin PCs will become a huge part of the notebook PC market for much the same reasons the MacBook Air became a big part of the Mac's laptop success. It's just going to take some time, because hardware vendors were slow in meeting the threat posed by Apple.
This year, Ultrabooks will account for just 2 percent of global shipments, iSuppli says. That is from just a smattering of devices from the likes of ASUS and Toshiba. But iSuppli argues that ultra-thin PCs will become a huge part of the notebook PC market for much the same reasons the MacBook Air became a big part of the Mac's laptop success. It's just going to take some time, because hardware vendors were slow in meeting the threat posed by Apple.
