Ultrabook to enter an already crowded and confusing market ~ theaustralian.com.au

 

Its latest idea, the Ultrabook, was introduced in Taipei last week at the Computex show.
The idea is to marry some attributes of tablet PCs, which are selling like crazy but don't use Intel chips with lightweight laptops, sales of which are a bit slow.

Think of a really thin and light laptop in which you can fold the screen back, turning it into something like a touchscreen tablet. Fold it back again and you have a notebook with a full-sized keyboard, something that's lacking on a tablet.

Ultrabooks, to be made by a number of makers, including Taiwan's Asus, will be less than 2cm thick, have tablet-style features such as touchscreen and instant-on boot-ups, and batteries that run for up to 24 hours.

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