14 DAY TRIAL // Tablets have been blamed for the decline in notebook demand, but some companies are singing a different tune. Or the same tune but with different notes.
Basically, slates that don't need keyboards have been eating the market share of normal laptops, ultrabooks included.
Yet there has been an increasing number of hybrid tablets showing up, with various sorts of hinges and other form factor conversion mechanisms.
In other words, tablets are becoming more like the notebooks they have supposedly supplanted every day.
AMD U.K. Retail Business Development Manager Andrew Muscat has even told T3 that he fully expects hybrid tablets to be the only kind of tablets on the market by 2016.
"You're going to see a shift I think. While tablets are good you're still restricted when it comes to content creation; there's always going to be a need for notebooks," Muscat told T3.
"I think it's moving a lot more towards taking tablet technology and effectively turning it into notebook technology."