StanBeer:Windows crushing Linux in netbook market: Acer.itwire.com,17.Dezember 2008,abgerufen am 19.November 2011(englisch):„[…] Acer and other leading vendors have confirmed that Microsoft WindowsXP now dominates the emerging sub-notebook market with more than 90% of new sales. Meanwhile, Linux, which had the netbooks market to itself until April this year, has seen its share of the space eroded to less than 10% in a breath-taking decline.“
Netbook.In:ITWissen.info.3.April 2012,abgerufen am 16.Oktober 2022:„Ein Netbook ist ein abgespeckter Subnotebook mit kleineren Abmessungen, kleinerem Display, dessen Größe bei 10″ und darunter liegt.“
BarryCollins:Are netbooks losing their shine?guardian.co.uk,29.Mai 2009,abgerufen am 19.Januar 2011(englisch):„[…] it is the failure of the netbook idea. You were supposed not to need a big hard drive and a powerful processor running Windows because all your applications would be on the net, and you'd access them via a browser. But it seems most people preferred the system they already knew.“