Netbooks party hard in 2009: shipments up 103 percent year-over-year

The full "man, how instance flies" abstract feels a little played out, but we definitely meet heard the Pavilion dv2 say as such to the Wind U100. Believe it or not, those digit machines were meet a pair of the legions that ushered us into a netbook-crazed 2009, and today DisplaySearch has the figures that establish what we've every been thinking: netbooks are the bees knees. According to their research, shipments of low-cost, miniaturized laptops shot up 103 proportionality year-over-year; compare that to the 5 proportionality dealing in the customary laptop market, and you'll move to get a feel for the movement trend. Potentially more awful is the income analysis, which institute that netbooks old a 72 proportionality uprise in year-over-year income ontogeny patch every another ambulatory computers saw a loss. It's thickened to say if the momentum crapper be stopped, but if folks have continued to acquire these things despite the restricted mainframe options and lackluster multimedia performance, we suspect there isn't anything those furious CULV alternatives crapper do to stop the inevitable uprise to stardom.