A Toshiba executive said the company expects that “up to three percentage points growth in Netbook in Europe, the Middle East and Africa this year. The Wall Street Journal reports that Toshiba sees tremendous growth potential for mini-laptops in the developed markets, but expects sales to drop off in emerging markets like Russia.An interesting point is that Toshiba, which recently Toshiba NB200 in Europe, do not see Netbook cannibalizing sales of more expensive laptops and desktop computers. According to Toshiba nearly 99% of the Netbook buyers are picking this computer as a second or third computer. This figure seems remarkably high to me, but not entirely beyond question. I am less sure that I believe that the statistics in the other article that only 10% of customers say, price is a factor in the Netbook purchases.

Maybe it’s just me, but I thought that was one of the characteristic features of a Netbook. They could be mini-laptop a few years. They were just subnotebooks and they cost $ 1500 or more.

via liliputing