February 26, 2009 – 1:10 pm
11.6-inch netbooks could soon be an industry standard with a new report from the DigiTimes suggesting that demand for 11.6-inch panels is rising.
Both major players in the netbook market, Acer and ASUS, have 11.6-inch netbooks (with 1366×786 resolution panels) on the way and the plan looks to be vendors differentiating between 10.1-inch and 11.6-inch netbooks [...]
February 26, 2009 – 12:39 pm
We still aren’t sure just what the mystery netbook of Acer’s leaked on Tuesday is but a new post at netbooknews.de reveals more information on it as well as fresh photos.
The as yet unnamed and even unconfirmed netbook will sport a 10.2-inch display (1024×600 resolution), a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor, 1GB of RAM, 160GB [...]
February 24, 2009 – 4:34 pm
Liliputing (via Blogeee) has reported news that Acer could be developing yet another netbook (maybe we should have an acronym for this like YAN) after Macles managed to get hold of a few snapshots of what appears to be a new model.
It is similar to Acer’s AOD150 in appearance but a slimmer chassis and two [...]
December 23, 2008 – 7:47 pm
iSuppli, a market research firm, today broke the pretty big news that for the first time in quarterly history (a quarter year), global notebook sales exceeded global desktop sales. Notebook sales in Q3 2008 were up a massive 40% over the same period last year, and the thing that catapulted them to this achievement was [...]
December 17, 2008 – 12:27 pm
Here is some interesting news via ITWire. There have been some reports lately that netbooks running Linux are the controlling force in the market. Senior managers at Acer and other leading vendors say that couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, there seems to be no contest.
In Acer’s case, and we recently learned that [...]
December 17, 2008 – 12:13 pm
Acer has unrolled its popular Aspire One range to the Indian market in time for Christmas, reports Network Computing in India. The releases have been timed perfectly as a Christmas special offer, giving consumers in India new netbooks at affordable prices.
The specs are exactly the same as elsewhere, to no surprise: 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, [...]
December 9, 2008 – 2:07 pm
The Aspire One is king of netbooks and according to Laptop Magazine has taken Acer to new heights, the company winning more than a 38% share of the market and surpassing its rival ASUS in Q3 2008. Acer took a 38.3% share, followed by ASUS with 30.3%, then far below the likes of HP (5.8%) [...]
November 25, 2008 – 4:57 pm
Netbooks are growing, both in terms of popularity and size, and the DigiTimes has news from Acer of plans to release a new 10-inch version of its normally 8.9-inch Aspire One netbook. Scott Lin, Acer Taiwan president, tells us that this new version of the very popular netbook will be launched in either February or [...]
November 11, 2008 – 3:02 pm
According to the DigiTimes, Acer is putting some serious thought into releasing a “low-power and low-cost 1-liter nettop” at the beginning of 2009. A nettop is a mini-PC, practically the desktop equivalent of a netbook, making them brother and sister if you will (though they may argue over which one is the female, but being [...]
November 7, 2008 – 3:30 pm
Netbooks are becoming an unexpected problem for Microsoft, according to Bloomberg. Acer Inc. and Asustek Computer, two of the big names in the netbook market, who make up 90% of said market, are using Linux on about 30% of their netbooks. Of course, Linux has always been a fairly non-threatening rival for Microsoft’s Windows series, [...]
