Sentences with phrase «as the netbook market»

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As of last year, low - cost netbooks accounted for 19.6 % of all the portable PCs sold in 2009, according to DisplaySearch, a market research firm.

Asus has the market power to really make a bold thrust into the tablet market, just as they almost single - handedly created the entire netbook craze with their eeePC two years back.

Slates can catch on to a wider audience then Netbooks were able to do and accomplish day to day tasks in key markets as an effective work tool.

You have the most capable Android tablet on the market as well as one of the most capable netbooks with a simple click.

A lot of people responded rather negatively to my last post questioning whether Nokia had a tablet strategy and decrying the entire idea of the tablet market as little more than a gimmick — Too large to be a phone and marginally more functional but smaller than an even a netbook and significantly less productive.

One particular effect: That's helped take a bite out of Apple's market share, as Apple doesn't sell a netbook, and rather hates them.

Acer officials are denying that they plan to phase out the company's netbook lines as Acer begins to also focus on the tablet market.

With soaring sales, huge gains as an e-reader, real cuts into the netbook market, and sky - high (albeit early) customer satisfaction rates, the iPad's biggest challenge has been living up to all of the pre-launch hype.

And on the subject of interesting hardware, here's a link to Nokia's entry into the burgeoning netbook market, the Nokia Booklet 3G, showing more boundaries blurring as the computing world and the web go mobile.

If it can be used as a ebook reader, a netbook, or run a web browser simultaneouly with the book page on the opposite screen, this could be a product that would take over the ebook market.

Two may not have much to show, as news this week suggests both ASUS and Acer are backing out of the tablet game next year, and Dell is doing to the same with netbooks after it publicly claimed intentions to exit the Android tablet market.

Non-Apple netbooks have been around for a while, but it really wasn't until late 2008 and early 2009 that pundits took notice of netbooks as a growing market segment.

Michel Lisiecki, product marketing manager EMEA, AMD, confirmed the AMD chip offered full HD video playback, as well as stating that they had «slaughtered the power consumption», although the battery life is cited as 4 - 6 hours, so it's more netbook than tablet again.

So the much rumored «Kindle / netbook / everything killer» is revealed to the public and we can finally make a first guess about it's prospects in eBook / eReader market that is getting increasingly crowded as well as it's general chances of success.

Other netbooks running Moblin will soon hit the market, and Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation, was quoted at the recent LinuxCon conference as saying that they will arrive at very low price points.

Described by Nokia as a «mini-laptop» to help differentiate the high - end device from the rest of the netbook market, the Booklet... Read more