Netbooks hurt whole notebook industry in 2009
The rise of netbooks has almost uniformly damaged the entire notebook industry’s performance this year, a new DisplaySearch study shows. While shipments of notebooks more than doubled to 33.3 million, their lower prices actually dragged down revenue for the entire notebook industry by 12 percent to about $109.4 million. The revenue for netbooks themselves was also disproportionately lower and increased a relatively soft 72 percent….
