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HP: Netbooks aren’t hurting sales, the economy is

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 […]

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Netbook sales are up, are they saving or killing the computer industry?

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 […]