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Research indicates 35 million netbooks to ship in 2009. Did you buy one?

by Tarinder Sandhu on 5 November 2009, 11:37

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Confirming numbers that were originally forecasted in January 2009, ABI Research reckons that 35m netbooks will be shipped through the course of this year.

The netbook segment was dominated by ASUS, Acer and Samsung in 2008, accounting for 74 per cent of shipments, according to senior ABI analyst Jeff Orr.

This year, the market is saturated by a greater number of players, with the likes of Nokia trying its hand in the burgeoning market.

The future for netbooks looks bright, ABI says, commenting that the total number of shipments is likely to treble by 2013.

With Intel's Pine Trail platform and NVIDIA's ION2 on the horizon, have you been lured into contemplating the purchase a netbook? How would you define the current netbook experience? What makes the perfect netbook? Let us know your thinking in the HEXUS.community.


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Posted by aeonf242 - Thu 05 Nov 2009 11:43
I think I bought 4 this year and sold 3….
Still looking for good performance and 5+ Hours battery life….
I also got an iphone…which does facebook, email and sonme internet
Posted by DeludedGuy - Thu 05 Nov 2009 11:50
I would guess a big majority of those sales were by people with no knowledge of what they were actually buying, and who were under the impression they were buying a “laptop”, just smaller.

Over the past few months I have come across a few non techy people who expected a fast notebook and didn’t realise they had bought a netbook with Linux, and no optical drive installed. :crazy:

Most people only need a netbook tbh, checking facebook and browing the web doesnt require a core i7 system.
Posted by scaryjim - Thu 05 Nov 2009 12:05
I almost bought one, but got a HTC Magic instead. What does that say about me? ;)
Posted by Funkstar - Thu 05 Nov 2009 12:09
I bought one. For me they are just small laptops, but then i did put Windows 7 Ultimate on it :)

I don't need no pesky optical drive either :mrgreen:
Posted by cheesemp - Thu 05 Nov 2009 12:32
I got an EEEpc 701 on release from Taiwan (Remember that - the first netbook). Loved it at first, but soon got fed up with the 7" screen and 4gb SSD. Sold it 5 months ago after decided it had sat about for far too long.

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