These figures show that the mini laptop market (netbook) is being heated up with the appearance of many names such as Asus, MSI, Acer . Asus launched the first netbook in October last year. At that time, the Eee PC was a 7-inch screen, and so far 700,000 laptops have been sold out.
Asus has also signed contracts with four operators in Europe and Japan to distribute the Eee PC with 3G mobile telecommunications contract packages. Asus said it will sign more contracts in the coming months. Opponents of this company are Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) and Acer also signed similar contracts with carriers.
Netbooks are considered 'new wind' blowing into today's laptop market. These small laptops are very mobile and designed to be very convenient for surfing the web. The weight of the machine is only about 1kg; 7-10 inch screen sizes; The battery life is quite good and is capable of wirelessly connecting to the Internet. Meanwhile, the price of netbooks is only around 400-800 USD.
According to Taiwan-based market research firm MIC, the amount of netbooks sold this year will reach 8.02 million units, and will double (to 18.3 million units) next year. IDC said that in 2007 there were nearly 430,000 netbooks sold.