World Laptop and Mobile Computing Markets Channel 8

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This Frost & Sullivan research service titled World Laptop and Mobile Computing Markets - Realities of Limited Broadband Wireless Adoption provides a discussion and quantification of the world wireless broadband Internet access market. The markets are discussed with a world focus and are segmented by region, with an emphasis on the U.S. market, which is the largest national market for the base year 2007. In this research, Frost & Sullivan's expert analysts thoroughly examine the following markets: wireless air cards, laptops, notebooks, ultra mobile personal computers, desktops, servers, and ruggedized computing solutions.

Chin up if you’re in the e-book biz and sales aren’t what they they should be. Almost nine billion people are supposed to by walking Planet Earth by the year 2300. By then maybe Vista will even be done for real.

Meanwhile, for helping to develop readers and countries, there’s a new machine out–beyond the “$100 laptop” from the MIT-based One Laptop Per Child project. It’s the Intel’s $400 Edu-Wise laptop written up in Engadget. As with the MIT machine, the price is a tad theoretical. Some are thinking this might be more like Intel’s $750-plus machine. Yes, the Intel laptop will run Windows, and inside it just could be a cousin of the Origami in many ways. More details here and here from an unveiling in Brazil, home to many a Linux lover, who might have a few words to say on the cost of the Edu-Wise’s OS.

Despite my skepticism about the prices of Third World-targetted laptops, I’m rooting for both the MIT and Intel machines and, yes, the Origami tablet as well. All this competition can only be for the good, especially if the vendors don’t cluelessly diss each other. That goes for you, too, Craig. If people want to knock the competition, at least be more creative than to compare $100-range computers with those at least four times their prices. Actually the competitors aren’t quite competitors after all.

Market Overview

Laptop and Notebook Mobile Computing Market Eats into the Desktop Computer Market

Laptops, with their more advanced computing solutions, are increasingly replacing desktop computers. In fact, in 2007, laptops outstripped desktops for the first time in terms of revenue due to a higher average sale price (ASP). Frost & Sullivan believes this first could be followed by another in 2009, when laptop unit sales will exceed that of desktops globally. This trend is expected to be sustained until 2014. The ruggedized mobile computer market is also likely to find the going good due to significant demand from specialized enterprise vertical markets.