Gartner reckons that 5.2m of these "mini-notebooks" will be sold this year, 8m next and as many as 50m in 2012.

据Gartner计算，这种迷你笔记本电脑今年将售出520万台，明年800万台，2012年将达到5000万台。

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To increase its appeal, the firm recently announced plans to join the PC industry's latest trend: mini-notebooks with small screens that cost only a few hundred dollars.

为了增加吸引力，该公司最近宣布加入PC行业的最新潮流：只有几百美元的小屏迷你笔记本。

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IDC forecasts manufacturers will ship 26.5 million "mini notebooks" by the end of 2009, or more than double the 11.6 million units shipped in 2008.

IDC预测到2009年底制造商的“迷你笔记本”出货量将达2650万，比2008年的1160万一倍还要多。

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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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