Office 2007 License Acer Passes Dell in Q1 Netbook

Nearly 6 million mininotebooks, or netbooks Office 2007 Pro Plus Key, had been shipped from the very first quarter of 2009 Office 2010 Home And Student, raising their standing within the notebook Personal computer marketplace to practically twenty %, industry forecaster DisplaySearch is reporting.

Netbook penetration in North America, China and Japan was lower than in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, which DisplaySearch wrote may be attributed to telecommunications subsidy plans in Europe that combine discounted netbooks with carrier subscriber plans.

(U.S. carriers have taken note, and AT&T recently announced a trial plan in Atlanta and Philadelphia, offering a choice of netbooks with starting prices as low as $49.99 for new subscribers to its Internet at Home and On the Go home and mobile broadband service.)

While Hewlett-Packard saw the highest total notebook Pc numbers within the industry, shipping 7.3 million total units within the very first quarter of 2009, Acer, which recently scaled back its netbook shipment forecasts, delivered the most netbooks—1.8 million units to HP's 700 Genuine Windows 7,000.

Acer also shipped more than Dell, boosting itself from the No. 3 notebook Computer maker to No. 2. Netbooks and notebooks combined Office 2010 Professional Key, Acer delivered 5.7 million units to Dell's 4.3 million, 400,000 of which ended up netbooks.

In fourth position, Toshiba shipped 3 million total mobile units in the 1st quarter of 2009, of which 200,000 had been netbooks. Fifth-place Lenovo delivered a total of 2.1 million units, which included 200,000 netbooks, and sixth-place Asustek Computer shipped 1.7 million units, 900 Office 2007 License,000 of them netbooks.

Asus is expected to release an 11-inch netbook later in May, and Lenovo and Dell recently announced netbook updates.