Going forward, mini-notebooks face significant competition from low-voltage ultraportables and next generation tablet devices.

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"Mini-notebooks, " which include the hardback-book sized UMPC standard engineered by Intel and Microsoft (and manufactured by Samsung, OQO and Asus), sold fewer than 350, 000 units worldwide in 2007, according to IDC data.

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"Mini-notebooks, " which include the hardback-book sized UMPC standard engineered by Intel and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) (and manufactured by Samsung, OQO and Asus), sold fewer than 350, 000 units worldwide in 2007, according to IDC data.

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"With the shift to notebooks, and even the mini-notes and the low-priced, low-featured notebooks, all of that will be made offshore, " says Shannon Cross, an analyst with Cross Research.

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