Netbooks kick ultraportable laptops to the curb

28.01.2009

The promising new mobile Internet device class of portable, or MID, will ship 5.9 million this year and almost triple to 18.3 million in 2010, according to ABI.

The only portable computer that netbooks have not yet outsold are full-size laptops. IDC estimates about 137 million will sell this year, an increase of 15 percent over 2008.