The whole “man, how moment flies” thing feels a little played out, but we definitely just heard the Pavilion dv2 say as much to the Wind U100. Believe it or not, those two machines were just a couple of the legions that ushered us into a netbook-crazed 2009, and now DisplaySearch has the figures that prove what we’ve all been thinking: netbooks are the bees knees. According to their research, shipments of low-cost, miniaturized laptops shot up 103 percent year-over-year; compare that to the 5 percent uptick in the conventional laptop market, and you’ll start to get a feel for the shifting trend. Potentially more amazing is the revenue analysis, which found that netbooks experienced a 72 percent rise in year-over-year

revenue growth while all other mobile computers saw a loss. It’s durable to say whether the momentum can be stopped, but whether folks have continued to buy these things despite the limited CPU options and lackluster multimedia performance, we suspect there isn’t anything those angered CULV alternatives can do to stop the inevitable rise to stardom.

Netbooks party hard in 2009: shipments up 103 percent year-over-year originally arised on Engadget on Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Original post by Darren Murph