After being the center of attraction for media, users, Windows enthusiasts and others, Windows 8 will finally be out this year and with this curiosity to know what tablet manufacturing companies will have their names added with it has also increased among all!

So, any idea which companies will be tagged as Windows 8 tablet makers once the new Windows hit the market this year? Well, there are number of popular manufacturers that will get to included in the long list of tablet manufacturing companies, some of these are HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer and Asus which will come up with their Windows 8 tablet sometimes in October this year.

The other names that came into limelight for working on their own set of Windows 8 tablet to be introduced in the earliest possible part of 2013 happen to be Sony, Toshiba, Samsung, and Lenovo.

Well, as far as Dell is concerned, it has been keeping quiet about its plans for coming up with its tablet. It did launch the Dell Streak 10 tablet based on Android Honeycomb last year but it kind of kissed goodbye to it soon.

There’s a somewhat similar story about HP. It did land up into tablet market but couldn’t taste much success with its HP TouchPad which did gain popularity but it couldn’t last that long.

Interestingly, both the companies got ready to try out their luck in the tablet market once again with Windows 8 tablets.

It appears that the magic of Netbooks is coming to an end and has lost the kind of power it had earlier.  At least from the move taken by Lenovo, one gets this notion. Lenovo has stopped selling netbooks online, so if you had any online buying plans, you’ll have look for some other place to look for as Lenovo’s website is no more the place for you.  And the company hasn’t decided whether it’d starting the sales in the near future.

Lenovo is not the only company to take such a step; many other companies have taken similar decision on seeing consumers being less interested in netbooks over the time. With the availability of more technically strong tablets and mini-laptops at lower price tags, netbooks have seen dramatic drop in the sales. Dell too had stopped selling netbooks sometimes back, and the companies like HP and Acer have reduced their offerings.

Netbooks were a tremendous success but by the second half of the year 2010, their sales started declining, this actually started little by little after April 2010 when Apple’s iPad kindled the tablet market.

The total shipment of netbooks got reduced to 6.3 million in the fourth quarter of last year which was down by 29 percent or can be said to be just the third of what was sold in the fourth quarter a year back.

All the major netbook producing companies observed around 30% drop in the shipments and Lenovo alone found a shipment drop of 43%. However, netbooks are believed to be doing well in some parts of Latin America and Asia.

Right now the Lenovo’s site lists all its netbooks as “temporarily sold out – more stock is expected”.  But interestingly, Lenovo doesn’t seem to be changing its plan of releasing two of its S series netbooks namely S200 and S206 this June, which it announced last month during the CES 2012 in Las Vegas.

A latest report suggests that many popular PC manufacturing companies like HP and Dell have decided to use Windows 8 as the operating system for their tablets. With the coming up of Amazon’s Kindle Fire at a considerably lesser price, the competition among the Android based tablets have got quite tighten making it pretty tough for the devices to continue in the same segment. This has made most manufacturers to leave out Android and start on with a fresher take with Windows 8.

Recently at the Dell World 2011, Michael Dell, the CEO of Dell told that the Android tablet segment didn’t do that well as was their expectation, this made him consider their decision and go for associations with Windows for the development of their new devices. Though, Mr. Dell didn’t say any thing in a clear cut way, it appears somewhat apparent that they will get into this association with their latest tablet by developing it on Windows 8 operating system.

Again, HP is looking forward to go for an entirely new tablet segment after the discouraging performance of its TouchPad.

Dell and HP are expected to release their new tablets around the third quarter of 2012. And as Windows 8 has just touched the market, this time selection seems quite appropriate.

Microsoft is expecting its Windows 8 to perform well with its presence in most of the Microsoft devices that include computer systems, mobile phones, and the tablets. It is believed to be giving a perfectly seamless and quite comfortable performance which will surely be well liked by all the Windows users. Windows 8 will make it possible for the users to work using their keyboard and mouse as well as touch screen.

Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc. are few of the names which are looking forward to make their presence felt by getting a place competing with Kindle and iPad with the Microsoft’s newest presentation. Meticulously speaking, it won’t be wrong to say that Windows 8 is Microsoft’s essentiality for the moment in order to make its presence prominent in the table segment where Apple is yet the king.

It is speculated that if this operating system proves itself successful in giving all that it has promised, it will surely make a special place for itself in the segment.

Dell is again at war against Apple’s MacBook Air. Now it has come up with large screen ultra thin laptop which promises to perform better than Dell’s discontinued device Dell Adamo.

According to sources, the initial model with 15.6 inch screen will be making its debut appearance in the coming weeks and will be priced under $1,000, which is another important amelioration on Adamo’s ultra premium price.

Before the discontinuation of Dell Adamo a few month back, it got a lot of attention as a Windows based alternative to MacBook Air. However, it was much criticized for being an under-performing yet over-priced device as the deluxe version started at as high as $2,700.

Perhaps, Dell has learned a lesson from its unsuccessful Adamo as it discontinued the range and now it has come up with more and is well determined to bring out a totally new range of ultra performing and ultra thin laptops, as the sources say.

The upcoming model from Dell will be marketed as the first larger-screen ultra-thin laptop targeted to “prosumers”. This year has been an year for the rivals of MacBook Air as so many of the devices competing against MacBook have entered the market, these include business oriented ThinkPad X1, Curvy Samsung Series 9, and now finally Adamo which has copied the 13.3 inch form factor of MacBook.

The upcoming laptop from Dell will not only offer a larger display with high resolution but will also use Intel’s second generation Core i5 and i7 processors. Dell will be highlighting this new premium laptop as “style and beauty” as it will be made out of special materials.

This new series will not just offer 15.6 inch display but also some other screen sizes as well so that one can think of buying what’s suitable. Hope that this time Dell will not disappoint its consumers with the pricing and the performance of the series as it did earlier. It will be a good news for the Windows users as they’ll now have one more alternative to MacBook Air to choose!

Dell is going to launch its 10 inch tablet this June; a leaked document got the news out. Right now Dell has two tablets to offer. These are Streak 5 and Streak 7, out of which the former offers a five inch screen and is available in India and the latter offers a 7 inch screen and can be bought in other countries.

Now the company is looking forward to add three new tablets to its repository of tablets. Out of these three, the first one will be next in line after its current Streak series. However, this tablet will offer a 10 inch screen, dual core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor and will work on Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS. The company is anticipating its launch this June.

Again in July, Dell Latitude, another tablet from the company is expected to hit the market. It will be a 13 inch long Windows device offering i3 to i7 Intel processors along with a keypad doc that will help the users to transform the device into a laptop.

After this, Dell has a plan of launching another Windows based tablet in October. The device will be a 10 inch long tablet featuring an Intel Oak Trail processor of 1.5 GHz. It will offer a battery life of 8 hours and will be named as Latitude ST.

All the three upcoming tablets from Dell will feature high definition screens but unfortunately they will only be supporting data. Thus, it won’t be possible to make any calls other than the ones made with the help of VoIP which will be possible as the device has a built in microphone for the purpose.

These devices will come along with Dell’s own set of applications.  However, the tablets aren’t offering any outstanding specification so their success will be determined on the basis of their pricing and the integration of the application integrated to them.

Fusion based systems are making their presence felt in the market with the coming up of Dell’s new Inspiron M102z this week. Currently, the new ultraportable device of 11.6 inch with a starting price of $599 is listed on the Dell’s Australian website. It offers an on-die Radeon HD 6259 graphics, a 1GHz AD C-50 Processor of single core, a 2GB RAM of DDR3 1333MHz. The device comes with a 1.6 GHz E-350 APU of dual core, Radeon HD 6310 graphics, and a RAM of 4GB.

A LED backlit display of 1366X768, a 320GB 7200RPM hard drive that comes along with a Dell’s cloud storage of 2GB for a year, a webcam of 1.3 megapixel, Ethernet 10/100, Bluetooth 3.0,  a 7-in-1 card reader, 3 USB 2.0 ports, 802.11 b/g/n, and HDMI and VGA outputs are offered with all the configurations. A standard six-cell battery is offered but an optional nine-cell unit is also available that gives about 14 hours life. A third model for $749 is also offered by the company although it appears that it only gains an internal DVB-T TV tuner.

However, it is notable that HP’s Pavilion dm1z series at a starting price of $449.99 is already available which offers more flexibility as it allows you to add mechanical storage of 250GB to 759GB or a 128GB SSD, a RAM of 8GB, AT&T or Sprint, WWAN connectivity through Verizon, and Windows 7 Professional in the place of Home Premium. Dell’s device will have to compete with it. Both the systems come in around same dimensions, with HP’s device being a little thinner and heavier compared to the Dell’s device.