Experts already spoke about the lowered sales of netbook from the side of plane-table computers collecting popularity, the sales volumes of netbook will be reduced by 30-40%. Gartner company asserts that the lower sale of netbook due to the popularity of plane-table computers can get temporary nature.
Actually, one of the most attractive netbook qualities was the low price, which allowed them to draw off a certain part of potential notebook buyers. However, the production of netbook proved to be not so advantageous, since the price increase over the prime cost was negligibly small, but the production volumes reached colossal scales.
However, plane-table computers are sold on high price, but the retail prices level does not allow to reach sales volumes comparable with netbook.
gartner report about the sums of the second quarter on the computer market contains others interesting data. The gain volume from the realization of computers is compared with results, obtained from other analysts - in the second quarter this year was sold up to 20,7% more computers, then within the analogous period last year. This is the third quarter in a row, which is characterized by the two-digit rates of sales gain volume in the annual expression. The increase rates in the sales volumes of netbook were slowed down: now it is possible to speak about more than 20%, but not about 70%.