Saturday, August 22, 2009

Price drops in ultrathin laptops may squeeze netbooks

The dominance of low-cost netbooks could be threatened by an emerging category of ultrathin laptops, which could compete on features and price, analysts said.

Ultrathin laptops are a new category of lightweight laptops that are as portable as netbooks and provide adequate performance to run most applications such as high-definition multimedia or casual gaming. The category emerged earlier this year when Hewlett-Packard in January introduced DV2 laptop, which was priced at around US$700.

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