Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Netbooks Have a Huge Impact On the PC Industry

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-can-has-netbook dept.

Xbm360 writes "A report from researcher Canalys said 13.5 million netbooks were sold globally in the 1st half of 2009. Telecom companies have several bundling deals, with about 50 operators selling netbooks. The success of netbooks also surprised Microsoft & forced them to lower the prices of their XP Home licenses, to regain marketshare over Linux."

4 of 416 comments (clear)

  1. Look! It's a book, a phone, a camera, a recorder by mindbrane · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My Aspire One running ubuntu is just great thanks. Cost me 250 loonies. Best of all, it's 8" screen means I can manipulate it almost like a medium sized book. I can kick back on the couch, at a table, on the subway, where ever and twist and turn it as needed. I stick with the SSD drive because I it affords me even less worry about jostling it around. With wifi and 10/100 built in, how could anyone go without one. $250 bucks, you can't afford not to own one. Best tech toy to come down the pike ever.

    --
    ideopath @ play
  2. Re:Tons sold, how many ppl like them? by swanzilla · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One person in general got a netbook from there husband.

    I don't even know where to begin with this sentence...

    --
    0 = 1 + e^(Alt something)
  3. Re:Kind of obvious by TheKidWho · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And the reason XP netbooks are selling significantly better than Linux netbooks is because Microsoft held consumers at a gunpoint and forced them to.

    Right.

  4. Re:It's fairly obvious why they are so successful. by commodore64_love · · Score: 5, Insightful

    P.S.

    Apple and Microsoft are going to have a hard time surviving in the 2010s. Their business model is based-upon selling a new OS with new features like music playback (early 90s) or video playback (late 90s) or HD playback (now). These new features came-about because computers get getting faster. But what happens when users buy a Phenom machine in 2010 and are still using the same machine in 2020, and feel absolutely no need to upgrade wither the hardware or the OS? Microsoft will see its revenue shrink.

    Perhaps this is why they are trying to move to a rental model, in order to ensure they keep getting paid even if you don't upgrade.

    --
    "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall