PC Worldreports that data from Gartner indicates that laptop sales soared over 43% in the first quarter of 2010. Netbook sales were up 71% in the first quarter.
A total of 49.4 million PCs were shipped worldwide in the first quarter of 2010. About 20 percent of those were netbooks, which made up about 13 percent of PC sales in the first quarter of 2009, according to Ranjit Atwal, principal analyst at Gartner.
PC World says Gartner does not have tablets, like the iPad, to have any impact on netbook sales now, but this could change in the future when tablets get much cheaper.
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