{"id":578140,"date":"2010-05-25T09:55:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T13:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=159630"},"modified":"2010-05-25T09:55:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T13:55:33","slug":"report-laptop-sales-are-rocking-fueled-by-netbooks-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/578140","title":{"rendered":"Report: Laptop sales are rocking fueled by netbooks sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/netbooks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/netbooks.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"netbooks\" width=\"620\" height=\"355\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-159631\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPeople might not be buying houses and cars at the pre-recession levels, but laptops are flying off the shelves led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/tag\/netbooks\/\">netbook <\/a>sales. (Quiet, don&#8217;t tell John. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/04\/27\/the-netbook-she-is-dying\/\">He hates netbooks<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Consumers clearly want mobility. Laptop shipments<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9177304\/Laptop_sales_up_by_43_in_Q1_says_Gartner?source=rss_news\"> are up 43.4%<\/a> over last year with 20% of them being low-cost netbooks. The notebook segment as a whole made up 13% of the total PC sales in the first three months of 2009.<\/p>\n<p>But it was the netbook numbers that&#8217;s most surprising. We&#8217;ve been hearing for weeks that netbooks are dead, no one buys netbooks, blah, blah, blah. However this Gartner seems to say differently by finding netbooks sales are up 71% over last year. So maybe the netbook segment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/04\/27\/the-netbook-she-is-dying\/\">isn&#8217;t dead<\/a>, Mr. John Biggs. Perhaps the is a market for small, low-cost notebooks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/7zPilPym8MxDulEktcGU1Hf8xo4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/7zPilPym8MxDulEktcGU1Hf8xo4\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/7zPilPym8MxDulEktcGU1Hf8xo4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/7zPilPym8MxDulEktcGU1Hf8xo4\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=SeRRE4zeSto:SXZDwWX85LM:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=SeRRE4zeSto:SXZDwWX85LM:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=SeRRE4zeSto:SXZDwWX85LM:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=SeRRE4zeSto:SXZDwWX85LM:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=SeRRE4zeSto:SXZDwWX85LM:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People might not be buying houses and cars at the pre-recession levels, but laptops are flying off the shelves led by netbook sales. (Quiet, don&#8217;t tell John. He hates netbooks.) Consumers clearly want mobility. Laptop shipments are up 43.4% over last year with 20% of them being low-cost netbooks. The notebook segment as a whole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}