We already knew netbooks were popular, but according to new data by research firm IDC, they are even more popular in Europe than we anticipated. The firm says that in 2008, netbooks sales accounted for 30% of total consumer portable sales in Europe, the Middle-East, and Africa. A big contributing factor are the telecommunication providers in Europe who subsidise netbooks.
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2005-07-06
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people may have wanted a portable laptop but didnt buy one once they looked at the price.
Sony, for example, have been making £2k ultra portables for years.
I'm sure if your wife wanted a £2k viao as opposed to a £200 netbook you wouldnt have entertained the idea for as long :-p
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2008-07-24
My guess is that most people buying netbooks also consider a regular notebook but choose the netbook because the extra portability is incredibly attractive; the pricepoint simply adds to the appeal. If I'm right, that's incredibly bad news for Apple - their laptops presently look rather unattractive if you want something very small and light.
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2006-01-04
It is so incredibly cheap for a subnotebook that runs for 6 hours. 9 inch FTW, I want it portable and I don't want to write big novels on it. No glossy meh either 
With SSD, BT, Draft-N, SD-Card reader and HT it has all I could ever wish for and it only cost me 255€ total.
Superb value for my money.
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2007-04-23
I don't know about the teleoperators where you live, but in Denmark, the "subsidized" price of netbooks all come with a higher-than-usual monthly subscription rate for the first half or full year, amounting to about the same as what you save in immediate pay-out.
So I don't really see this as subsidy, but rather payment in installments.
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2005-07-22
I wonder what the initiative from Microsoft will be. They have set the pricing of Windows 7 to be much the same as for Vista, although I believe you will be able to buy a crippled version of Windows 7 for less money that only runs three programs at once. What if I want to run the three applications email, irc and instant messaging as well as something else like a web browser? How does that square up with 'more affordable packaging'?
To me Microsoft are appearing to be irrelevant in one of the fastest expanding sectors of the computer market, which is big news.
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The price you and I will have to pay for Windows 7 has little in common with the price a netbook manufacturer will have to pay. Microsoft will have no problem offering Windows at whatever price they have to if they decide they want this market.
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If Microsoft persue this market and effectively "dump" Windows 7 on it (in the same way they now do with Windows XP Home), then microsoft don't make any money on this market.
If Microsoft set the price of Windows 7 for this market at a level where they could make a profit on each machine sold with Windows 7, then the number of machines sold with Windows 7 is likely to be a far smaller portion of the market.
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2006-01-18
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2005-07-06
One factor analyst neglect to mention is that netbook are getting new user's in the market and on the internet from territory that usually had almost no user's from there.
It's not just replacement of old computers , or usual yougnsters of the wealthy country and clases that get netbooks , old people and poor people and a portion of the middle class who their budget did not permit them to come on at older price.
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2007-03-06
