Acer is reportedly reducing orders for some of its netbooks from ODM manufacturing partners. Digitimes reports that the move is due to cooling demand for netbooks in Europe and a high level of inventory in local channels. But the company is also deciding to its efforts more heavily on Consumer Ultra Low Voltage or CULV based laptops which will provide…

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Netbooks have been one of the only areas of the PC industry to see increased sales over the last year or so. That has a lot to do with their low cost. You may not have noticed, but there’s a global recession going on, and if you’re worried about losing your job, watching your stock portfolio plummet, or tightening your…

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I get asked all the time why netbooks are suddenly so popular. My usual response is this: Once upon a time if you wanted a light weight, ultraportable laptop, you had to pay a premium price and you’d still wind up with a machine that wasn’t as powerful as a cheaper full sized laptop. Now, instead of paying $1500, you…

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HP has been selling netbooks since April of 2008, making the company one of the earliest innovators in the mini-laptop space. (Seriously, that’s how new this whole industry segment is). But despite a lot of gloom and doom projections from market watchers claiming that cheap netbook sales would cannibalize the sales of pricier, more profitable full sized laptops, HP’s CEO…

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Hello and welcome to today’s installment of  “are netbooks helping or hurting computer makers?” There’s absolutely no doubt that mini-laptops represent the fastest growing segment of the computer industry. This week the researchers at DisplayBank put out a report estimating that 14.6 million netbooks were sold in 2008. That’s about 11% of all notebooks sold over the course of the…

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