Nearly half of notebooks sold now have DVD burning capability

October 20, 2004

Are there
many sectors of consumer electronics that haven't felt a boost
due to DVD? I must admit, notebooks aren't my cup of tea, until I start thinking
movies or wireless and airports and... Well, maybe I just changed my mind.

As of Sept. 30, notebooks with DVD/RW
burners accounted for 45 percent of all laptops sold, compared with 12
percent in December 2003, Current Analysis said. At the end of last year,
notebooks with only CD burners accounted for 87 percent of
sales.

Driving the higher sales DVD/RW-enabled notebooks is consumer
demand for the high-capacity disks to store media files, coupled with
declining prices for the laptops, which have sold for as low as $899 in
recent weeks, the analyst firm said.

Now, that is a pretty good jump in percentage over a year. On a side note,
due to this increasing demand, notebooks will soon come with a DVD writer as standard
equipment.

Source: Yahoo!