Leaked benchmarks portend shift in Windows 8 'PC' design

 
The first benchmarks of Intel's upcoming "Haswell" Fourth-Generation Core processors have leaked. But asking how fast future Windows 8 PCs will be is probably the wrong question.
The Haswell chip that Tom's Hardware got a hold of and tested showed only modest central processing unit, or CPU, performance improvements over the latest hardware.
This would seem to indicate the future of Windows PCs -- which in this case means newfangled devices like Microsoft Surface and HP's Envy x2 -- isn't about the desktop anymore.
"The mobile space is where Intel's efforts should become more apparent," said Tom's. And that's probably the biggest takeaway from the leaked benchmarks.
Intel's next chip that will undoubtedly land in most of the world's new PCs has been designed first and foremost for better power efficiency.