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Dataquest Insight: Forecast Scenarios for Mini-notebooks, Worldwide
17 July 2008
 
Annette Jump   Tracy Tsai   George Shiffler III  

Mini-notebooks are an emerging category of mobile computing devices, which will offer additional growth opportunities to many hardware and some software vendors. Gartner predicts that 5.3 million such devices will be shipped in 2008 ,and 7.8 million in 2009.




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Table of Contents


    
 Analysis

    
 Mini-notebooks: Definition and Segmentation

    
 Definition
    
 Mini-notebook Segmentation
    
 Mini-notebooks Are Supply-Driven
    
 Potential Users and Usage Scenarios for Mini-notebooks
    
 The Largest Opportunities Are in Consumer Mini-notebooks
    
 Forecast Scenarios for Consumer Mini-notebooks

    
 Best-Case Scenario
    
 Most Likely Scenario
    
 Worst-Case Scenario
    
 Education Mini-notebooks — Still Project-Driven
    
 Business Mini-notebooks — A Niche Category

    
 Background and Context

    
 The Impact

    
 Conclusion

    
 Recommended Reading


List of Tables


Table 1.  
 Mini-Notebooks by Subsegment
 

Table 2.  
 Potential Users and Usage Scenarios for Mini-Notebooks
 

Table 3.  
 Consumer Mini-notebook Forecast for Best, Most Likely and Worst-Case Scenarios, 2008-2012 (Thousands of Units)
 

Table 4.  
 Forecast Assumptions for Consumer Mini-notebook Scenarios
 

Table 5.  
 Education Mini-notebook Forecast Scenarios, 2007-2012 (Thousands of Units)
 

Table 6.  
 Business Mini-notebook Forecast Scenarios, 2007-2012 (Thousands of Units)
 

Table 7.  
 Worldwide Mini-notebook Forecast by Subsegment — Most Likely Scenario (Thousands of Units)
 

Table 8.  
 Overall Mini-notebook Forecast Scenarios, 2007-2012 (Thousands of Units)
 



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