Monday, February 23, 2009

Acer netbook aims for $150 (euro)

The $150 batteries-not-included Netbook is very close -- but with batteries ...

Translated from netbooknews.de (google translation)

I announced it several times, now it is certainty... Acer is launching a price war... The A110L is now here in Taipei for the converted 150 euros ... Acer zerschiesst the competition with this ... LowEnd in the margin area (Yup, even when there is already Netbook different categories) and intends to market its own product soak... The 2nd Generation ( Aspire One D150 ) ..  is also expected within a very short time become one of the cheapest Netbook belong...

Google's translation services are imperfectly impressive, but you get the idea. I assume at this price we're talking Linux.

This is happening much faster than I'd anticipated, driven by the desperate desire to survive economic disruption.

The screaming collapse of netbook prices is my number one explanation for Apple's product silence. I assume they're rethinking their OS X product strategy. They may have thought they had more time ...