Four out of five tablet buyers plan to purchase an Apple iPad, according to a survey from research firm Changewave.
ChangeWave surveyed 3,108 consumers in October for a 90-day outlook on PC and tablet trends. Eight percent of respondents are holding out for RIM's Blackberry PlayBook, which does not yet have a launch date. Another 3 percent want the Samsung Galaxy Tab, which will be available from T-Mobile on Nov. 10, from Sprint on Nov. 14, and Verizon on Nov. 11. AT&T and US Cellular are also expected to have the Tab at some point. Another 2 percent, meanwhile, are looking to buy the business-centric HP Slate.
Changewave also asked iPad owners about their level of satisfaction with the Apple tablet, and 95 percent of iPad owners said they were either "very satisfied" or "somewhat satisfied."
"With the iPad having already set the bar so very high in terms of customer expectations, these new tablets all have their work cut out for them, in order to succeed in the race to gain new market share," Paul Carton, ChangeWave vice president of research, wrote in a blog post.
Less surprisingly, Carton said the iPad momentum has fed a decline in netbook consumption. When asked about their next laptop purchase in the next 90 days, only 14 percent said netbook, down 10 percentage points since its peak in June 2009.
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