4-Jan-2012 - As tablet shipments soar, notebooks take a hit, research finds

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As if you needed further proof tablet popularity is skyrocketing, NPD DisplaySearch cheap nfl jerseys has provided some new data to make that point even clearer. According to the research firm, 72.7 million tablets hit store shelves worldwide in 2011, securing the form factor 25.5 percent of the entire mobile PC market. Assuming NPD DisplaySearch's fourth-quarter estimates hold up, tablet shipments last year rose 256 percent compared to 2010. Meanwhile, NPD DisplaySearch has revised its 2011 notebook shipment forecast down to 187.5 million units from its original 188 million estimate. Still, NPD DisplaySearch estimates notebook shipments were up 12 percent last year, compared to 2010. Although tablets might have impacted notebook shipments last year, most industry observers agree that, for now, tablets aren't doing much to cannibalize notebook sales. In fact, Google-owned mobile ad network AdMob found last year that 77 percent of current tablet owners mlb jerseys from china still use notebooks, but just do so less frequently after buying their slates. What's more, Forrester Research found last year that tablet buyers are more likely to have bought PCs within the last couple years. In other words, few tablet owners believe their slates can fully replace current notebooks. NPD DisplaySearch appears to agree with that idea. The research firm says that by 2017, worldwide notebook PC shipments will jump to 432 million units. Tablets, meanwhile, will see their unit shipments jump to 383.3 million by that time. NPD DisplaySearch is also bullish on Ultrabooks. The thin, lightweight notebook form factor that some say could negatively affect tablet sales, could see shipments grow to about 175 million in 2017. One other interesting tidbit from NPD DisplaySearch's study: as many as 25 percent of all the tablets shipped this year will feature screens with 250- to 300-pixel-per-inch panels. To put that into perspective, nfl jerseys cheap the iPad 2's screen currently boasts 132 pixels per inch.

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