Gartner just announced it: Netbooks (or mini laptops) are driving the bulk of the PC industry growth in Eastern Europe, and possibly worldwide. In their latest research, Isabelle Durand and Ranjit Atwal commented: “The market position of vendors was largely determined by those that shipped mini-notebooks and those that did not”. Is that a surprise? Not really. The rise of Netbooks was in the making ever since Asus launched the Eee, a laptop for emerging market that is selling like hotcakes in the world’s most affluent cities. However, the mere presence of low-cost hardware is not sufficient to explain the explosion of that market.

We are currently in the perfect storm for Netbook. The storm feeds from several elements:

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