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Tablet PC--been popularized by the Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy tab--surging popularity of netbooks has set the kibosh in sales.

Only a year ago, the forecasts were that buying a NetBook should 2010 hot seller. But, as Acer and ASUS companies been popularized by liitännöiltään, Cheap called notebook computers because of the growth of this year saw a little. In the meantime, there has been an increase in the Tablet PC category that there is a hardly a year ago, more than 20 million pieces, sales technology research firm Gartner said.

Consumers prefer the husk, apps, touchscreen and compactness of tablets through the traditional buying a NetBook. 33.4 million netbooks sold Only in 2010, the low growth through 2009: n 32.2 million, Gartner says. Roger Kay, Analyst research firm Endpoint Technologies, "forecasts that netbooks were in excess of 40 million this year," says. "This is it."

"Buying a NetBook was a disappointment for many consumers," Kay says. "It was detected in the miserable as a notebook."

George Shiffler, analyst is Gartner netbooks not go away, to predict. "We see them in a more or less of the yield curve and, in so far as they Do now, hold down the drive." He expects sales in the mid-30 millions 2011. Disagree with Kay, forecasts of the netbooks leaves in the coming years. "The market continues to shrink," he says. "It is not only up to a notebook experience."

Usually available for the 250-$ 400 netbooks offer a full-size keyboard, and, on the other hand, if the breeder so requests, from Windows and slower than the higher computers. "They were just too slow to many people," Kay says.

IPad is $ 499 for a simple model is nearly twice as expensive, but the zippy and easy to use.

Netbooks were also hurt laptop computers calculate by price. Some simple notebooks prices, the amount of $ 400 to $ 500 in 2010. "People started looking for what they could to get extra $ 100 and opted instead of the notebook," Shiffler says.

In recent years, several notebooks sold than desktops-205.1 million vs.-147.3 million, 170 million and 138.4 million in 2009.

"We are not seen at the end of the growth in the notebook," Kay says. "It is the largest long-term growth category."

Overall, the 2010 was a strong year the personal computer industry, which saw the rising sales in spite of the recession. Gartner predicts sales 409 million computers and 65 million in the form of a tablet PC IN 2011.

IPad popularity has sparked many of the PC industry to follow in 2011, in your own tablet PC touch screen and the lack of a physical keyboard. New devices-and medium-sized enterprises, including Motorola, LG and Toshiba-dozens of deployed next week is the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

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