![]() ![]() Still, Intel did reveal they saw a slowdown in the number of Atom chips sold during the first quarter, which may corroborate this DigiTimes story. The figures are vague, and there’s little to back them up at this point. The story claims that market saturation might account for the lower-than-projected sales. ![]() MSI reportedly sold 200000 Wind series netbooks. The same sources also claim that Asus only sold 900000 Eee PCs during that same quarter, short of the 1 million projected. ![]() For instance, Acer had expected to ship 2 million Aspire One netbooks during Q1 of 2009, but sources claim sales in the channels were lower. The report comes courtesy of DigiTimes, which usually comes with inside information about manufacturers in the far east (well, far east from my perspective, anyway). While we receive continuous reports that netbooks are the saving grace of the PC market, the light at the end of the tunnel, the beacon of hope, the Fiona Apple among the rest of the mediocre musician crowd, the, err, (okay I’m out of metaphors), we are now getting a report which states that during the first quarter of 2009, netbooks have not met their sales estimates. In the current economic climate, it’s hard to make any sane predictions one way or the other. ![]()
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