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Move Over Netbooks: Nettops to Also Surge This Year

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Posted: April 14, 2009

Dell's Studio One 19 nettop

One of my favorite new classes of PC is poised to take off: Cheap all-in-one desktops that are just starting to appear. Asus, Dell, Acer and others have announced models with built-in LCD screens that could make great family hubs.

Most have announced initial models at prices of $600 and up. But sales will boom when prices dip to $400 or so, which could happen by year's end, say analysts at DisplaySearch. The market is drawing a raft of new players who've seen the surge of interest in netbooks.

Nettops are essentially netbooks turned on their side. The wave of the inexpensive desktops hitting the market has DisplaySearch nearly doubling projected sales to about 6 million this year. The firm had predicted sales of about 3.4 million just a few months ago.

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Think small, thin netbooks standing vertical instead of horizontal

Rich -- If you've seen a modern iMac, that's a high-end version of putting a PC into a case small enough that it can fit onto the back of a desktop LCD monitor.
The cheapest of the nettops will have smaller monitors, perhaps 17 or 18 inches across.
David LaGesse

David LaGesse of MO @ Apr 15, 2009 12:23:44 PM

What the heck did that mean?

"Nettops are essentially netbooks turned on their side."
That sounded glib but means nothing to me, visually or metaphorically. I have no clue what the image was supposed to be here...

Rich of CT @ Apr 15, 2009 09:43:58 AM