The share of netbooks in the notebook market has reached 20%

According to preliminary data from DisplaySearch, in the first quarter of 2009, 5.9 million netbooks were shipped worldwide, and their mass share in the laptop market grew to 20%. Primacy in the market in terms of the number of netbooks delivered is confidently held by Acer, which accounts for 30.5% of all devices delivered to the market - almost twice as large as that of its closest competitor, ASUS. HP remains the leader in the full-length notebook segment, with a market share of 24.1% or 7.3 million units.

Most netbooks (45%) ship to EMEA and Latin America, followed by China, Japan and North America. This is what the market looks like according to the results of the first three months of 2009:


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Source: Tech It Easy .