We did a survey on the best netbook-maker a couple of weeks back and I thought it’s time to share the results of that survey (there were over 1,000 votes sent in). Not surprisingly, HP came out the winner of the poll.
At 25% of the votes, HP took the top spot. It’s followed by Acer at 18%, then Asus at 14%. Dell, Sony and Toshiba are tied at 8% while MSI was surprisingly behind at 7% and Lenovo at 6%. The remaining 6% were shared by Neo, Red Fox, Gateway, Gigabyte, Qube, Astone and Minix.
With the HP Mini 2140 and the HP Mini 1100 (plus the Vivienne Tam Special Edition), HP deserves the spot. While the Acer, Asus and MSI crowd might not agree, the brand and lifestyle approach contributed to this. That doesn’t mean though that HP has more sales in the netbook market — that crown is still fought between Asus and Acer.
You can read more comments about this poll here.
this site is kinda bias about HP
sir how come my post was remove. Its about asus as the sole winner
the Cult of Asus has not seen its end.
i have a compaq cq20, and this should count as an hp notebook as well. yahu!
yeepy!, congrats HP for that category, but for the overall aspect according to laptopmag…here is the result of the clash….
http://blog.laptopmag.com/netbook-madness-finals-the-asus-eeepc-1000he-routs-samsung
http://blog.laptopmag.com/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/netbook-madness-finals21.jpg
nothing against the result… it’s a particular poll we are basing it from. so let’s not take this as a general fact. there must be lots of other polls that return significantly different results…
@ totoy bato
If you work at a call center, chances are, all that you are going to get are complaint calls. I mean, someone would not go out of their way to call and rave about having a great laptop. Slim chance of that happening.
“With the HP Mini 2140 and the HP Mini 1100 (plus the Vivienne Tam Special Edition), HP deserves the spot.” I most definitely agree. This netbook, I think does stand out among the rest. Sad to say, so does its price.
I worked before in a call center & we support an HP account..sad to say..HP is not a good laptop…i received lots of calls (US & Canada) everyday to repair their defective product. They have produced thousands of HP notebooks (conflict between the motherboard & processor which would eventually lead to NO BOOT or black screen)i would prefer ACER…
i know why. because it takes the votes even if you log on the same PC twice? or if you refresh your IP.
i voted more than five times for that, as far as i can remember.
i think it would be better if the vote is based on email address, via sending link to the email provided to count the vote.
cheesy analogy here… hp’s got beauty… asus has the brains… although it looks like the 1005HA has both.
i go for hp if i have money. for now i’m enjoying my msi.
I prefer apple products such as the one you own Abe. That iPhone is a dream gadget. Hope someone out there will sell his iPhone for a cheap price.
I tend to agree with Calvin here.
Yuga, could it be that the survey reflects market share primarily? Or was it purposely drafted to determine several other factors? (i.e. product satisfaction, support, reliability, etc)
Surprising that the Mac boys are out of the running here :) they won’t be happy about that.
I’m personally pounding on a prehistoric Pavillion on this comment, but I tend to favor the Lenovo models of late, especially about the HP-Nvidia product fiasco. Lenovo seems to be churning out more interesting propositions in terms of overall package, build, make and specs. Just my thoughts.
Bah.. doesn’t really mean that it’s the most popular choice. :P
HP is a great PC maker… HP deserves this! :D
Congrats HP but Asus is still no. 1 in netbook sales.
Congrats HP.. though ASUS pa din ako. hehehe
ASUS still the best for me.
Congrats to my 2140. Hehe
Congratulations to HP! Seems that there marketing schemes as of the past two months is working great for them.