Last year Computex was all about netbooks; Asus expanded its Eee PC line with bigger screen models, MSI countered with its 10-inch Wind, vendors churned out several cost-effective SSD upgrades for these machines, Canonical talked up its Netbook Remix edition of Ubuntu and more. While netbooks remain hot items in this year’s show, it seems as though chip vendors and PC manufacturers are slowly moving towards a higher-performance “ultrathin notebook” segment, looking to replicate this success but enjoying higher margins.

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