Windows 7 sale Acer Passes Dell in Q1 Netbook Ship

Nearly six million mininotebooks, or netbooks, had been shipped from the initial quarter of 2009, raising their standing inside the notebook Computer industry to practically twenty %, industry forecaster DisplaySearch is reporting.

Netbook penetration in North America, China and Japan was lower than in Europe Microsoft Office 2007, 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 Windows 7 Download, 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 Personal computer numbers inside the industry, shipping 7.3 million total units from the initial quarter of 2009, Acer, which recently scaled back its netbook shipment forecasts, shipped the most netbooks—1.8 million units to HP's 700 Windows 7 sale,000.

Acer also delivered more than Dell, boosting itself from the No. 3 notebook Personal computer maker to No. 2. Netbooks and notebooks combined, Acer shipped 5.7 million units to Dell's 4.3 million, 400,000 of which ended up netbooks.

In fourth position, Toshiba delivered 3 million total mobile units within the very first quarter of 2009, of which 200,000 have been netbooks. Fifth-place Lenovo delivered a total of 2.1 million units, which included 200 Office 2007 Professional,000 netbooks, and sixth-place Asustek Computer delivered 1.7 million units, 900,000 of them netbooks.

Asus is expected to release an 11-inch netbook later in May Office Ultimate 2007, and Lenovo and Dell recently announced netbook updates.