A Gartner analyst is predicting that tablet sales will nearly triple in 2011. That comes on the back of strong sales for 2010. There were 19.5 million tablets sold this year in a market that has been dominated by the iPad. The Samsung Galaxy Tab has performed reasonably well, at least in line with Samsung expectations and will reach 1 million sales for 2010. In contrast, Apple sold 1 million iPads in one month and currently have over 95% of tablet sales.
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The whole purpose of the netbook was to fill the need for a small, inexpensive laptop, great for getting things done while on the go but without all the features of full blown, expensive laptops. Netbooks have been hugely popular and it’s a somewhat ironic that the more success they have had, the more manufacturers have competed to pack more features and offer more to the consumer. The irony is because netbooks are getting a bit bigger and certainly more expensive thus blurring the edges between netbook and notebook.

However, it does mean that we are seeing big advances from the original basic, netbook models and this is likely to improve even more with time. There are netbooks with built in 3G mobile broadband and it is likely that this will become standard with the next generation of netbooks.

If top of the range features and design is more important to you than finding the cheapest netbooks on the market, then here’s our pick of feature packed, premium netbooks. And there are some great price deals as well so the inexpensive tag hasn’t completely disappeared.