Ultrabooks 'are the future'
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Ultrabooks will become mainstream in the future and, within two years, about 80 percent of laptops will have touch screens because of the coming Windows 8 operating system, said Yang Xu, president of Intel China.
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A Lenovo ultrabook - the Thinkpad X1 Carbon - on show in Beijing. China's largest PC maker, Lenovo Group Ltd, launched an updated version in China on Oct 12. The new product is able to swivel its screen 360 degrees, turning a normal laptop into a tablet PC. [Photo/China Daily] |
Yang said that by the end of this year there will be more than 40 touch-screen ultrabooks out of 140. "The touch-screen ultrabook is the industry trend and will dominate the market in the near future," he said.
The ultrabook is a concept introduced by the semiconductor giant Intel Corp. The concept is to produce a notebook computer designed to provide similar or superior functions as a standard laptop but thinner, lighter and with a longer battery life.
This concept was introduced by Intel in 2011 in an attempt to reclaim territory lost to mobile Internet devices such as tablet PCs and smartphones, especially to Apple Inc's iPad.
"Last year there were only a few ultrabooks in the global market but this year we will see more than 140 ultrabooks," said Yang. He said the new type of product will boost sales in the PC industry and many creative models will be produced in the future to redefine the concept of traditional laptops.
The 26-year veteran IT worker demonstrated the new Microsoft Corp Windows 8 by using a Chinese PC brand Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13.
The world's and China's largest PC maker, Lenovo Group Ltd, launched this, its latest ultrabook, in China on Oct 12. The new product is able to swivel its screen 360 degrees, turning a normal laptop into a tablet PC. The company said it will be available on Oct 23 in China starting at 6,999 yuan ($1,109).
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