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Growth in sales netbooks in first quarter of 2010 slowed compared with the same period in 2009. According to analyst firm IDC, in January-March, around the world have been sold 4,8 million netbooks cost from 200 to 500 dollars, says Business Week.

Compared with first quarter 2009 growth in the market amounted to 33.6 percent. In total in January-March 2009 was sold 3,6 million netbooks. For comparison, while growth in sales amounted to 827 per cent, that is higher than in the first quarter of 2008, almost 10 times.

Such a significant drop in growth rate can be explained by the fact that buyers attracted low-cost netbooks. When a market they tried to present as a new device. However, consumers, according to analyst David Shima (David Shim), considered them just a new type of computers. Another reason for reducing the growth has been called the saturation of the market. It is also noted that the performance of Netbooks, issued in the first quarter of 2010 is not much higher than that of 2009 models and even a 2008 release.

It is expected that the yield of netbooks based on the graphic platform of the new generation of Nvidia Ion seriously expand the functionality of devices of this class. The technology will improve the graphics performance of systems by 15 times compared with netbooks based on the integrated graphics Intel GMA. Netbooks with Ion 2 will be available during 2010.