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Summary Intel unveiled a new category of laptops that will include the best features of tablets.
Netbook pioneer Asustek showed its first new PC in Intels Ultrabook class. Ultrabooks will be lightweight but still pack high-performance processors. Ultrabook is a different category from the tablet and notebook. The Ultrabook is not the first PC category that Intel and Asus have promoted together. In 2007, Asus introduced a small and simplified laptop that is widely viewed as the first of many low-cost netbooks geared toward surfing the Internet. Prices for Ultrabook laptops would likely fall to around $600 within a couple of years. Intel is eager to make laptops more attractive to consumers who are increasingly captivated by Apples iPad and other mobile gadgets.Models made by other manufacturers would go on sale by Christmas and cost under $1,000.
