Nearly 6 million mininotebooks, or netbooks, were delivered within the initial quarter of 2009, raising their standing in the notebook Laptop market to virtually 20 percent, market place forecaster DisplaySearch is reporting.
Netbook penetration in North America
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(U.S. carriers have taken note, and AT&T recently announced a trial plan in Atlanta and Philadelphia
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While Hewlett-Packard saw the highest total notebook Pc numbers from the industry, shipping 7.3 million total units from the first quarter of 2009
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Acer also shipped more than Dell, boosting itself from the No. 3 notebook Personal computer maker to No. 2. Netbooks and notebooks combined, Acer delivered 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 from the initial quarter of 2009
Microsoft Office Standard 2010, of which 200,000 have been netbooks. Fifth-place Lenovo shipped a total of 2.1 million units, which included 200,000 netbooks, and sixth-place Asustek Computer shipped 1.7 million units, 900,000 of them netbooks.
Asus is expected to release an 11-inch netbook later in May
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