News - Research indicates 35 million netbooks to ship in 2009. Did you buy one?

[HEXUS]

Netbook shipments gather steam. Forecasted to hit 139m by 2013.

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[aeonf242]

I think I bought 4 this year and sold 3....
Still looking for good performance and 5+ Hours battery life....
I also got an iphone...which does facebook, email and sonme internet

[DeludedGuy]

I would guess a big majority of those sales were by people with no knowledge of what they were actually buying, and who were under the impression they were buying a "laptop", just smaller.

Over the past few months I have come across a few non techy people who expected a fast notebook and didn’t realise they had bought a netbook with Linux, and no optical drive installed.

Most people only need a netbook tbh, checking facebook and browing the web doesnt require a core i7 system.

[scaryjim]

I almost bought one, but got a HTC Magic instead. What does that say about me?

[Funkstar]

I bought one. For me they are just small laptops, but then i did put Windows 7 Ultimate on it

I don't need no pesky optical drive either

[cheesemp]

I got an EEEpc 701 on release from Taiwan (Remember that - the first netbook). Loved it at first, but soon got fed up with the 7" screen and 4gb SSD. Sold it 5 months ago after decided it had sat about for far too long.

[Steve]

I won one

I wouldn't have bought one, however.

I'm waiting for 12 hours (real world) battery life.

[mikerr]

Bought the first EEEpc netbook, but that was hampered by the low res screen.

Then bought an Acer One 8.9" and it's just perfect for throwing in my briefcase, and always being there when I need it.
Did a fresh install of XP, and its quick enough for my usage.

[kingpotnoodle]

I bought a EEE 901 a year ago... but probably going to sell it on ebay, I hardly use the damn thing - too small to use and weak and not as light to carry about as first seemed... a little pissed off with myself really, because I spent money on a bigger SSD and large battery, so probably could have ended up buying much more useful stuff with the money.

I actually thought I used more internet than I seem to... then realised most of my internet was related to stuff I do on a proper computer - like work or games.

I'm keeping my eye on CULV laptops, and smartbooks... I might be more willing to carry around something that did more for me (i.e. some games properly) or was just really light and cheap (700g or something)...