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CALIFORNIA - It seems that Hewlett Packard (HP) will resume its PC business to get into the market Ultrabook or PC devices with a thin model.

"Is a category of ultramobile notebook that has a thickness of between 17 millimeters. We are very focused to have a circuit in the ultramobile space and will soon present it to our customers," said Todd Bradley, HP executive vice president, Personal Systems Group.

HP (along with Dell) will be one PC maker will enter the market ultrabook by designing devices with a thickness of 0.8 inches and weighs under 3 pounds. It seems that HP's desire to enter the market ultrabook due to return to compete with Apple that has the MacBook Air.

"HP does not yet officially announced its intention to enter the market Ultrabook and yet have a product that stands out from Lenovo, Asus, Acer and Toshiba have released the laptop with the ultra-thin models," said Deron Kershaw, an analyst with GAP Intelligence, such as quoted by Cnet, Friday (28/10/2011).

"At present it is unclear whether HP will provide ultrabook device before the holidays this year and if so, whether the HP Pavilion will carry the name or Envy," he continued.

Windows 8 tablets is also one of the products scheduled by HP to be developed soon. Even HP's new CEO, Meg Whitman claims will focus on developing a tablet that uses the Windows platform 8.

"I think we need to get into the tablet business and we will definitely be there with Windows 8. We will make another run at this business," said HP CEO, Meg Whitman.

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