Netbooks will go down in history in 2015

If the reduction of the PC market can still be attributed to Windows 8 and high prices, then the culprits of the disappearance of netbooks as a class of devices can rightly be considered tablets.

Show someone who does not remember the appearance of the first netbooks on the market. In the past, many have been fascinated by the small size, long battery life, low power consumption and the more attractive cost of netbooks. Netbooks in those days became an intermediate link between smartphones and powerful computing laptops. True, they did not have to hold the crown for long. In 2010, the iPad came out, and the netbook market began to shrink.

Currently, analysts say in one voice that no one will remember about netbooks in 2015. Statistics will not lie. If in 2010, 32.14 million netbooks were shipped to the market, in 2012 their number dropped to 14.13 million. This year, analysts predict that the volume of the netbook market in absolute terms will amount to 3.97 million units, and in 2014 only 264 thousand netbooks will be delivered to the market. For comparison, the tablet market, which continues to grow, according to the forecast data, will exceed 150 million units already this year.

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