IT Briefing: Netbooks vs. Notebooks: Matching Systems Form to Function in the Enterprise by Dell, Inc.
Since their introduction in 2007, small form-factor netbooks have experienced a strong demand and growth rate as consumers and business users adopt them as highly-portable primary and in many cases secondary systems. Shipments of these systems have nearly doubled from 16.4m in 2008 to an expected 32.7m this year. Users are attracted by their low price (sub-$650), abilities to easily make use of the Internet and Web-based applications, long battery life, and reasonably-sized screen. Businesses especially like these small systems since they are affordable and can be used to extend computer resources and applications to a wider group of people within an organization.
