Posted on 02/04/2010 2:15:20 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
ARM CEO Warren East believes that netbooks will come to dominate the PC market - and it won't be that long before it happens.
"Although netbooks are small today – maybe ten per cent of the PC market at most – we believe over the next several years that could completely change around and that could be 90 per cent of the PC market," PC Pro says he says.
Alas, the magazine doesn't quote East explaining why he believes we all - well, 90 per cent of us - will be buying netbooks a couple of years or so down the line.
There's certainly plenty of room for growth. Netbooks are cheap and easier to carry or simply to stash in a handy place for quick on-sofa access than your average notebook.
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Now way is it 90%. It could be a big number though.
Netbooks are nifty and will do good but they will have Ipad competition. Laptops are real computers, I can play DVD’s on mine. I like the screen size too.
My wife has one.
She uses a laptop unless actually travelling. The netbook hasn’t left the house in three weeks, and has spent those weeks in its bag.
There is a reason it is called a ‘net’book.
As much as I like my Iphone, the iPad has some serious work to do before it can claim its going to take out netbooks.
IPad won’t. Not until Version 7. =o|
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