That has taken place for a while, but it has comeintovoguein recent years as schools sought new revenue to make up for budget cuts, or realized their sports teams were worth a boatload of money.
The most surprising leap may be in graphics: while we knew the GPU core would be much faster, we're now seeing that the new Intel hardware can output to as much as a 2, 560 x 1, 600 display and record stereoscopic, 1080p 3D video in the event that 3D-capable tablets come back intovogue.