As I made mention of in my previous post about laptops, the touch and convertible laptops I speculated about have been confirmed. Intel VP Kirk Skaugen was quoted by the Wall Street Journal that 30 new Ultrabooks will be released alongside Windows 8 that will be touch enabled and 10 of these will be the convertible type (laptop and tablet all in one!).

This is even better than I expected since Skaugen specifically mentions Ultrabooks - these laptops are super thin (see picture above) and light and take advantage of the new Ivy Bridge Intel processor and the new type of "hard drive" called SSD (basically a really large storage thumb-drive instead of hard drive). Both of these use less power than today's traditional laptops which means smaller batteries as well. All this leads to a really thin and light Ultrabook.