Netbooks Top Amazon.com’s Best-Selling Notebook List
September 26th, 2008 by Avram Piltch
The tech blogosphere was atwitter yesterday over the latest top selling notebooks list from Amazon, which shows that the top 5 and indeed most of the top 10 are netbooks, rather than traditional notebooks. Our fellow bloggers wondered: does this mean that notebooks are out, and netbooks are in?
While I agree that netbooks have arrived, when I look at which systems top the list, I’m not surprised. As of this writing, the top 5 systems are:
- The Acer Aspire one ($649.83) with XP and 6-cell battery
- The MSI Wind U100 with 6-cell battery
- The Eee PC 1000H (also comes with a 6-cell battery)
- The Eee PC 900 (the only celeron-based netbook in the bunch, comes at a really low $329)
- Another 6-cell Acer Aspire one, this time in black.
Amazon.com is the Web’s best-known and trusted e-tailer. And what we see here are a bunch of netbooks — with the exception of the bargain-priced Eee PC 900 — that you just can’t get at big box retailers. Some of them, particularly, the 6-cell versions of the Aspire one and the MSI Wind, are difficult to find even at other e-tailers.
Also, none of the notebook manufacturers here (Acer, ASUS, and MSI) has an online store of its own. So while consumers who want to order a Dell notebook online will likely go directly to Dell.com, if they want an Eee PC or an Aspire one, they’ll have to look to an e-tailer like Amazon.com.
With no competition from big box retailers or even from the manufacturer’s own stores, is it any wonder that Amazon’s top-selling portable computers are all netbooks? I think this says more about the distribution channel for netbooks than lack of interest in notebooks.
(via Engadget and Cult of Mac)
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