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Netbooks continue to be the hottest potatoes in town, with sales continuing their upward trajectory at the expense of traditional laptops sales.

According to a new report from DisplaySearch, revenues for Netbooks (or mini-notebooks, if you will) zipped upwards to hit a hefty $3 billion in the second quarter of the year, marking a whopping 264 percent leap.

The new “Quarterly Notebook PC Shipment and Forecast Report”  revealed that netbooks have now grabbed an 11.7 percent share of the portable PC market.

Laptops (or notebooks as the report insists on calling them) still pwn the portable PC market, hogging an 89 percent slice of the market, although second quarter sales fell to $23.2 billion, a 14 percent slide from the second quarter of 2008.

We succumbed to the delights of the netbook a couple of years ago and are still enjoying using our Asus Eee 901 which has served has well.

If you’re mulling over joining the netbook set, check out this feature comparison or just go straight for our first choice, the Samsung N110 (or the older, cheaper, but still most excellent Samsung NC10).

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