Netbooks and Wal-Mart

Quick blurb about Acer and Asus selling Netbooks @ Wallyworld (not surprising but should definitely lead to more adoption)... You can check out the story here. I have included the text below:

Acer and Asustek continue expanding shares in US notebook market in 4Q08, says IDC Yen Ting Chen, Taipei; Steve Shen, DIGITIMES [Monday 9 February 2009]

Despite a drastic slowdown of global PC shipments in the fourth quarter of 2008, Taiwan-based Acer and Asustek Computer managed to continue expanding their shares in the US notebook market in the quarter, according to data from IDC.

In the fourth quarter, Acer shipped 1.4-1.5 million notebooks and netbooks in the US market, taking up third place with a 16% share; whereas Asustek shipped about 300,000 portable PCs, positioning itself at eighth in the rankings with a 3% share, the data indicated.

Acer's fourth-quarter notebook shipments in the US represented a 57% increase from the same quarter of a year earlier, compared to an 8% on-year decline recorded by Dell, the top PC vendor in the US.

Acer shipped a total of over four million notebooks in the US in 2008, trailing Dell's 8.8 million units and HP's 8.77 million units, the data revealed.

Asustek is expected to start marketing its notebooks through Wal-Mart in the second half of 2009 aiming to push its notebook shipments in the US to over one million units compared to 650,000 units it shipped in 2008, according to market sources in Taiwan.