Purchase Windows 7 Acer Passes Dell in Q1 Netbook

Nearly six million mininotebooks Purchase Windows 7, or netbooks, had been delivered from the initial quarter of 2009, raising their standing within the notebook Pc industry to virtually 20 %, marketplace forecaster DisplaySearch is reporting.

Netbook penetration in North America, China and Japan was lower than in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, which DisplaySearch wrote may be attributed to telecommunications subsidy plans in Europe that combine discounted netbooks with carrier subscriber plans.

(U.S. carriers have taken note, and AT&T recently announced a trial plan in Atlanta and Philadelphia, offering a choice of netbooks with starting prices as low as $49.99 for new subscribers to its Internet at Home and On the Go home and mobile broadband service.)

While Hewlett-Packard saw the highest total notebook Computer numbers from the industry, shipping 7.3 million total units inside the initial quarter of 2009, Acer, which recently scaled back its netbook shipment forecasts Office 2007 Professional Key, delivered the most netbooks—1.8 million units to HP's 700,000.

Acer also delivered more than Dell Office Professional 2007, boosting itself from the No. 3 notebook Pc maker to No. 2. Netbooks and notebooks combined Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise, Acer delivered 5.7 million units to Dell's 4.3 million, 400,000 of which were netbooks.

In fourth position, Toshiba delivered 3 million total mobile units in the 1st quarter of 2009 Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, of which 200,000 were netbooks. Fifth-place Lenovo shipped a total of 2.1 million units, which included 200,000 netbooks, and sixth-place Asustek Computer shipped 1.7 million units, 900,000 of them netbooks.

Asus is expected to release an 11-inch netbook later in May, and Lenovo and Dell recently announced netbook updates.