Netbook Shipments increasing at a mind-boggling rate! – 33 million netbooks expected to be sold in 2009
We all are still fighting the economic downturn and most of the people low on cash are treating netbooks as cheap alternative to notebooks. Reason is simple: They are small, trendy and easy to carry around.
In western countries and in countries like Japan, notebook shipments faced a sharp fall, whereas the netbook shipments actually increased. In the year 2008, when the netbooks were still considered as niche devices, the netbook vendors were able to sell just 7.3 million units whereas the notebook shipments were still high at 51.4 million.
This year, things are changing at a faster pace as netbook shipments are expected to be around 13.3 million units which is nearly 100% growth when compared to previous year. Same is the case in US and Japan, where the netbook shipments increased by 136.9% and 29.1% respectively.
Clearly, netbooks are being treated as secondary laptops and in some cases as primary laptops by consumers. Intel Atom processors that are used in almost all modern netbooks are powerful enough for handling the daily computing needs of the normal people. Netbooks are perfect for the ones who are not into hardcore PC gaming.
[via reghardware]
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I wonder why the computer press keeps declaring the netbook dead? Are they trying to get rid of it through bad publicity?
Netbooks are cheaper than notebooks. May it is the worried computer vendors themselves that are behind this as netbooks are hurting their notebook sales where they get better profit margins
I bought my EEE 1000HE as it had better battery life and great chiclet keyboard, not due to its cheap price ;)
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