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Date added: 10/06/2011 Tomshardware - Asus: Ultrabooks Won't Threaten Tablet Market

Despite all the reports and rumors about how one device will kill off another device, there's one constant we've seen thus far: smartphones, netbooks, notebooks, tablets and desktops have seemingly worked out their differences and are coexisting together. Sure tablets are the big craze for now because Apple (once again) came up with something innovative, and manufacturers are seemingly trying to cash in on Apple's success. But all of these form factors have a primary focus and an audience that will always come calling.

Of course one of the latest fears is that the dazzling new tablet form factor may be eclipsed by this new thing called an ultrabook. It will be powerful, slim and supposedly cost under a grand. Asustek Computer CEO Jerry Shen, whose company already has a few Android tablets on the market and an ultrabook on the way, is resaauring pessimists (aka market watchers) that both form factors will coexist on the market, that one won't be a threat to the other... before the launch of Windows 8, that is.

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