Did you contribute to the rise of netbooks? So did a bunch of other people.
According to early data from DisplaySearch, netbooks accounted for nearly 20 percent of all worldwide laptop sales with 6 million units in the first quarter 2009.
Acer with its Aspire One line is the top selling brand with a market share of 30.5 percent, doubling the shipping numbers of Asus’ Eee PCs.
45 percent of netbook shipments went to Europe, Middle-East and Africa, while the North America only swallowed up 26 percent.
A year ago, netbooks were less than 3 percent of the laptop market. The rapid growth could be attributed to greater selection and availability along with consumers being more cost conscious. DisplaySearch also believes that telecom company subsidies for signing mobile broadband contracts have a part to play as well.
“It is clear at the moment that mini-notes play a vital role in the total PC market. Without the additional volume provided by these products, shipment volumes for the notebook PC market would have been down 19% Y/Y, instead of only falling 3%. While there is no doubt that many buyers of mini-notes would have chosen larger notebook PCs if mini-notes were not available, it is also certain that many buyers might have chosen not to purchase a notebook PC at all,” said John F. Jacobs, Director of Notebook Market Research and author of the report.
Did you buy a netbook within the last six months? If not, do you have any plans to?
Haha I remember some news where mac said that they will never build netbooks because it was not worth it. Another stupid argument from mac demonstrated here!
It's obvious that a netbook is for basic needs... It would be silly to blame my phone (which I bough to make calls) because it does not has the power to do programming LOL.
You should get what you need, if you buy something with this out of mind, don't blame the device when it does not fits your necessity (after all is your fault for not checking out)!
I got a good look at one in Best Buy and I couldn't believe how small the screen and keyboard were. I couldn't imaging doing any type of work on it. I guess it's exactly what it's called - a netbook, or a notebook made solely for browsing the 'net. Doing any sort of productive work on a screen that small seems like it'd be extremely difficult.
I have a 15" notebook and I couldn't imaging going any smaller.
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thing is great. just what i need.
it is used mostly for work. am nomadic tech support. i don't need alot of power just something more versatile then my axim. primary uses are remote desktop, e-mail and web.
the little 2 pounder (celeron 8G SSD) replaced a 10 pound p2 with a 6Gig drive. it's not a primary system and never was meant to be one. before this i was eyeing up some ultra portable that was going to cost 1k for a used one. Cheap, light, small; Sold.
Remember, a lot of other computer makers sell computers with razor thin profit margins. Apple doesn't sell any product with razor thin profit margins. The netbook, by definition, is a product with almost no profit margins.
So what all that rambling comes down is I want to buy one cus they are neat little toys but without a really good use for one I will get shot if I buy another cool toy.
When the Acer Aspire One failed me, I went and bought an Asus EEE with a 10.1 inch screen, now I'm working on the EEE and the Aspire One is sitting in the corner and being messed around Windows 7.
Also I use it once a week when I need to go to a remote office where I have no dedicated PC to work on (software development). I connect 20 inch ext monitor, ext keyboard, ext mouse, internet cable and use Windows Terminal Server to connect to my work PC while mp3 is playing on Wind all day. CPU is not taxed too much this way and I do not feel any lag. While traveling home by train it keeps me entertained and I have no problems using it in small, cramped train seats
This setup works great for me!
I replaced by fiancee's 5-year old Toshiba Laptop with a Acer Aspire One last Christmas. Her main complaint was her Toshiba was too heavy to carry around. She had a desktop for her heavy work, and just wanted something smaller she could actually take with her to play flash games or browse the web on.
I think the trend toward netbooks shows a change in what people need to do on the go. Having a laptop that can rip DVDs or play Crysis might be nice, but only a very small amount of people need or even want to do that on the go. Most people are fine with netbooks as long as they can still surf, type up documents, and chat over IM, especially if they still have a desktop at home or work that can handle the bigger tasks where and when they are needed.
Hell, a solo core will work for me if it's decent enough.
However, discreet graphics is a MUST!
netbook can only be used to surf the web, that is so
stupid, i know that a netbook is not a super computer
but within their limits they are pretty good, and like
Hellwig says most of the people doesn't really need
a really powerful computer, most people only use their
pc's or laptops only for surfing the web, writing documents,
IM, so what's the problem
I have a acer aspire one with a 120gb and 1 gb of ram, and
in this tiny little netbook i can surf the web, watch dvds(i
ripped them on my other pc and then copy the dvd isos to the netbook)
watch matroska high definition videos using core avc
video codec, also i can do a little edit images (i installed
photoshop cs2 and runs fine), also i installed an older version
of autocad 2002 and also runs fine(i even think that a newer version
is capable of running without problems).
So maybe the netbooks aren't the most powerfull computers out there
but they can be useful and are not very expensive and being honest
most of he people don't use all the new features of new software
releases, so you can still install some older versions of the
software you need or want to use and you can take it on your travels
without worrying to much if this computer breaks or is stolen like
you would be with a "a notebook with 3+ gigs of RAM, 500 gig HDD, and 2GHz+ dual core and discreet graphics".
in retrospect , i bought this laptop because it had nvidia integrated graphics (geforce 7150) , which i did not know earlier , suck . amd turion 64x2 is a battery sucker as well . and more powerful notebooks are costly , and wont be good price/performance for the latest games anyway , with upgradability as a big feature on desktops .
something thin and light would be perfect for watching youtube and visiting tom's after dinner in my bed . plus they arent heavy on the wallet .
when i do buy one, i will of course evaluate various netbooks and platforms like ion here on tom's .