Windows 7 Discount Acer Passes Dell in Q1 Netbook

Nearly six million mininotebooks, or netbooks, had been shipped in the very first quarter of 2009, raising their standing inside the notebook Laptop marketplace to almost 20 %, market forecaster DisplaySearch is reporting.

Netbook penetration in North America, China and Japan was lower than in Europe Office 2010 License, the Middle East and Africa Office Professional Plus 2010 Key, 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 Office 2007 Serial, 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 in the industry, shipping 7.3 million total units from the 1st quarter of 2009, Acer, which recently scaled back its netbook shipment forecasts, delivered the most netbooks—1.8 million units to HP's 700,000.

Acer also shipped more than Dell, boosting itself from the No. 3 notebook Laptop maker to No. 2. Netbooks and notebooks combined Windows 7 Discount, Acer shipped 5.7 million units to Dell's 4.3 million, 400,000 of which have been netbooks.

In fourth position, Toshiba shipped 3 million total mobile units inside the 1st quarter of 2009, of which 200,000 ended up netbooks. Fifth-place Lenovo shipped a total of 2.1 million units, which included 200,000 netbooks, and sixth-place Asustek Computer delivered 1.7 million units, 900 Genuine Office 2010,000 of them netbooks.

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