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The third quarter of 2008 marked a first for the computer industry. According to iSuppli, more laptops were sold worldwide than desktop PCs – only for the quarter, however. Compared to the third quarter of 2007, notebook PC sales spiked 40% to 38.6 million computers sold. The desktop PC market will not fare quite as well.

“Momentum was in the notebook market for some time, it is not surprising that a complete shipments have surpassed that of desktop PCs,” says Matthew Wilkins, principal analyst for the calculation of platforms at iSuppli. “However, this is an important event in the PC market, because the beginning of the era of the notebook.”

Japanese PC manufacturers computer mouse is one of the first Netbooks with an integrated optical drive, later this month. The LB-F1500W with the standard specifications Netbook, including:

• 1.6 GHz Atom processor,
• 160GB hard drive,
• 1GB of RAM,
• 10.2-inch (1024 600) display
• Windows XP Home Edition

Philippine traders PC Corner has set up a product page for the new 10-inch version of the Acer Aspire One. According to PC Corner, the Netbook is the Acer Aspire 103, and in addition to the larger 10-inch display, will Intel Atom N280 CPU with GN40 chipset instead of the common Intel Atom N270 CPU with the 945GSE chipset.

I have reports on the new name and a new chipset, but I have taken to reporting on it, because I had the impression that the new Intel Atom N280 CPU wouldn ‘t be for a few months, while I expect that the new Acer Aspire One netbooks to take the shelves sometime in February. But either one of these things is not true or PC Corner has the information for their product list from various Internet sources and not from Acer.

via All About Eee PC and Yugatech