A year and a half ago you would have been hard pressed to find a netbook (defined as a 10 inch or small mini-laptop for around $400) that came with Windows XP. The original Asus Eee PC 701, Everex Cloudbook, and other early netbooks all ran Linux. Today, 90% of all mini-laptops sold in the US are running Windows. That’s…

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A report out today from iSuppli claims that global notebook sales surpassed desktop PC sales for the first time last quarter. But I feel like I keep seeing that headline over and over so I’m not going to put too much stock in it. Much more interesting is iSuppli’s finding that Acer’s market share was up 45 percent from the…

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While Acer may be trouncing Asus in terms of global netbook shipments, Asus issued a press release today claiming that the company’s mini-laptops account for 60% of all netbooks sold in Europe. Asus netbooks are doing particularly well in Germany, france, Spain, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Russia.  Asus was the first company to bring a consumer oriented netbook…

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While notebook and desktop PC sales aren’t selling as well as anticipated, netbooks continue to be a growth market. According to a report from DisplaySearch, the market grew by 160% betwen the second and third quarters of 2008. That number’s not particularly surprising, since the netbook market was born just over a year ago. While most of the top PC…

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