One in ten online shoppers owns netbook (and a bunch of them own Aspire Ones)

PriceGrabber.com released its first Consumer Behavior Report of the year, this one focusing on netbook and solid state drive trends and forecasts. Data collected from sales and a survey conducted in the first two weeks of January mirror what we’ve been hearing from other sources about netbooks: they’re popular, the popularity is driven by innovation and price, it’s only going to get better from here. Of the top 25 laptops on PriceGrabber.com, 48% are netbooks.  The most popular of them all?  The Acer Aspire One.  (It actually shows up several times on the list under slightly different configurations.)  The rest of the list is no surprise — the HP Mini 1000, Samsung NC10, and Lenovo S10 make a good showing.  Only one Eee PC is on the list, though: the 900HA, way at the bottom.  Though if the Acer Aspire hadn’t taken up so many spots, ASUS might have made a better showing. We were also surprised to see the MSI Wind U100, a favorite of ours, is way down at number 25. The report takes several opportunities to emphasize that netbooks are mostly companion computers — a refrain we often hear — and cite that 91% of netbook owners have a laptop (presumably their primary one) and 87% also own a desktop.  “Most netbook owners have all three form factors most likely because each serves a distinct purpose,” the report states.  That sounds about right to me. Another interesting aspect of the report is that many consumers are aware of and desire solid state drives but are waiting for the price to go down and the gigabytes to go up. That sounds about right, too. Source