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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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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Shim clarified IDC’s definition of a mini notebook: 7- to 12-inch notebooks powered by an Intel Atom processor, capable of running a full operating system such as Windows XP.

Shim阐述了IDC对迷你笔记本的定义： 7-12英寸，使用英特尔Atom处理器，可运行像Windows XP之类的完整的操作系统。

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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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