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Toshiba has revealed its plan to launch a raft of new products at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, with TVs, tablets and PCs being readied for an official unveiling.

New tablet PCs and ultrabooks are expected to provide much of the excitement and interest at CES 2012 and Toshiba is aiming to get in on the act with products to be launched in both sectors. Its new tablet is promised to be the “thinnest and lightest in the world” while its ultrabook will enter the fray at 13.3 inches.

Strong sales of its latest MacBook Air have helped Apple overtake several of its rivals and rank at number five in the list of the largest suppliers of PCs to the UK market.

Still behind HP, Acer, Dell and Toshiba, Apple now accounts for just over six per cent of all the personal computers sold in the UK, having increased that share from 5.4 per cent at the end of 2009, Gartner reports.

Laptop and netbook giant Asus has introduced a new range of hard disk drive (HDD) products branded along the sleek and slender lines of the car-maker Lamborghini.

The product launch builds on an existing tie-in between the Asian consumer tech company and the iconic Italian motoring brand that last year saw the launch of a new Lambo-branded Asus laptop.

Toshiba has launched a new range of hard disk drive (HDD) memory products designed for use with the latest mobile computing devices, including tablet PCs, netbooks and laptops.

Three separate HDD models are to be made available from next month and will make up the Mkxx39GSLseries, with the different products offering 160GB, 200GB and 220GB respectively.

At just 1.8 inches in size, the new range of hard drives are reckoned to be more energy efficient and more robust than their 2.5 inch predecessors and therefore better suited to use with the increasing variety of mobile computing devices on the market.

Acer is reportedly hoping to increase the number of netbooks it ships this year and is expecting to see a number of its rivals in the sector switch their attentions to tablet PCs.

The Taiwanese firm is one of the largest players in the netbook market worldwide and is apparently keen to maintain and possibly even strengthen that position.

There have been rumours recently that Acer would phase out its netbook range as tablet PCs take an ever larger share of consumer technology sales but the company has denied this and hinted that it could stand to benefit if other business shift their focus away from netbooks.

Tablets, netbooks and smartphones have been tipped continue their rise in popularity as consumers worldwide look for more mobility from their computerised devices.

A report from Deloitte outlining the expected trends in consumer technology in 2011 suggests that small and portable devices will become increasing in use and in demand over the course of this year.

Asustek is still planning to introduce new additions to its netbook range despite an increasing emphasis on the development of tablet PCs, according to reports.

The company is among the world’s largest suppliers of personal computers and doesn’t want to miss out on opportunities in the tablet sector but isn’t yet willing to write-off the global netbook market.

Indeed, Asustek is aiming to ship somewhere in the region of six million netbooks over the course of 2011 and expects to see 30 to 35 million units sold worldwide by all major suppliers during that time.