Mini- Laptops will be Launch in 2009 in Asia Pacific :- Gartner |
Author : Sanjeev Kumar | on 4th May 2009
Gartner says netbook sales could grow by more than 40% this year in Australia alone.Of course, there’s nothing particularly shocking about these numbers. For the first half of 2008 there were only a handful of mini-notebooks available. Today there are dozens, if not hundreds of models available throughout the world. So it’s hardly surprising to expect that more netbooks will ship in 2009 than shipped in the second half of 2008 (plus the relatively small number of netbooks shipped by Asus, HP, Everex, and a handful of other companies that were selling netbooks in early 2008).
All major PC players—including Toshiba, HP, Lenovo, Dell, Samsung and Fujitsu Siemens—entered the mini-notebook market in the second half of 2008, so buyers now have much more choice. These vendors are primed to recapture the market from pioneers such as Asus and Acer. The mini-notebook market will soon become saturated with vendors, models and price points, Gartner predicts.
From 2010, Gartner expects the mini-notebook market to stabilise and carve out a sustaining segment, especially in the 8.9-inch (22 cm) to 10-inch (25 cm) "sweet spot" screen size. Threats such as the falling average selling price of standard notebooks and ultra-portables will put more pressure on the price and weight of mini-notebooks.
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