Friday, January 23, 2009
Mini-Notebooks Lowering Overall Laptop Prices
Mini-laptop sales are booming, luring consumers away from more expensive standard notebooks and driving down overall prices, a market research firm said Thursday.
Mini-laptops, also known as netbooks, accounted for a majority of the increase in overall mobile PC shipments to U.S. retailers in December, according to the NPD Group. The number of laptops shipped rose 23% to 1.9 million units, with 14% of that growth attributable to mini-notebooks
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