January 30, 2009 – 6:07 pm
Amazon has put together a very handy netbook catalogue that should save people the effort of searching left and right for individual models on the colossus that is Amazon.com.
The page lists the top netbook brands like ASUS, Acer, and HP, then with one click you get a full list of available models. They also have [...]
January 27, 2009 – 10:14 am
ABI Research predicts big growth for netbooks. No, scratch that. HUGE growth.
Analysts at the company predict that netbook shipments will hit 35 million in 2009 and looking head, 139 million in 2013. They reckon that smartphones have just about jumped the sharks and that the day of the netbook is here — and judging by [...]
January 21, 2009 – 2:49 pm
I4U News has an interesting story via Biz360 about netbooks and apparent dissatisfaction towards them by consumers.
A study by the analysis firm has shown that despite immense growth in the netbook genre, customers are not overly pleased with what they are getting.
The main reason is low performance which suggests that consumers don’t realize thats why [...]
December 23, 2008 – 7:47 pm
iSuppli, a market research firm, today broke the pretty big news that for the first time in quarterly history (a quarter year), global notebook sales exceeded global desktop sales. Notebook sales in Q3 2008 were up a massive 40% over the same period last year, and the thing that catapulted them to this achievement was [...]
December 19, 2008 – 2:15 pm
Everyone is after a netbook this Christmas it seems. Don’t believe me? Just ask AOL and Pricegrabber, who have collaborated in an effort to let us know just what people are looking for on the AOL Shopping website.
TVs are there of course, just as they always are on Christmas shopping lists, but netbooks have also [...]
December 12, 2008 – 4:32 pm
Imagine this: You’re running a busy enterprise and need to be conscious of expenses when equipping your workers with the technology they need. And so someone suggests netbooks to you – a less pricey alternative to a notebook or sub-notebook, and certainly cheaper than a full desktop. Such a thing would have been unheard of [...]
November 28, 2008 – 6:37 pm
Intel, who as you probably know develop the dominant Atom processor in the netbook scene, are apparently having doubts about the usefulness of netbooks. Stu Pann, vice president in the sales and marketing group at Intel, said some pretty revealing things at a recent conference. He firstly commented that Intel originally thought netbooks, with their [...]
November 17, 2008 – 3:12 pm
The talk that AMD is going head to head with Intel in the netbook process market seems to have been premature and, well, basically false. CNet claims that AMD are not going for the netbook market, but something between netbooks and laptops.
AMD Chief Executive Dirk Meyer set the record straight last week though with this [...]
November 7, 2008 – 3:30 pm
Netbooks are becoming an unexpected problem for Microsoft, according to Bloomberg. Acer Inc. and Asustek Computer, two of the big names in the netbook market, who make up 90% of said market, are using Linux on about 30% of their netbooks. Of course, Linux has always been a fairly non-threatening rival for Microsoft’s Windows series, [...]
