New Acer Netbooks Hits 11.6-inch Territory

[Marcus Yam]

Acer has unveiled its latest AspireOne, the first netbook with an 11.6-inch screen.

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[Guest]

this is going to destroy the sony 11-12inch ultra light laptop line up
the price of one sony TZ can buy two of these, nice

 

[08nwsula]

I don't know the price yet, but why would anyone get this when you could get a dell 13" laptop for most likely the same price if not cheaper. netbooks are just becoming crappy laptops.

 

[Guest]

Because it is smaller and lighter. I like 12inch laptops for use in cafes, flights, etc.

 

[solymnar]

Well...no...netbooks ARE crappy laptops. That's basically the definition. Super cheap parts with very low preformance.

But yeah much line blurrage. I would imagine the primary trade off between this and the dell 13" will be battery life vs. preformance.

 

[Master Exon]

Good, good, now just slap on 1280x800 and Ion and we'll call it a deal.

 

[daship]

Any netbook over $300= waste!!!!

 

[mrubermonkey]

Netbooks should be in the $250 to $350 range at most.

 

[Guest]

$399 at WalMart last night...

 

[Guest]

BTW, that's exactly what I paid for my 14" Acer Extensa last August: AMD Athlon 64 X2 TK-57 (1.9GHz, 512K L2) 2G (4G max) DDR2 667MHz RAM, 120G SATA hdd, Super-Multi DVD burner (+/-R/RW/RAM/DL), VGA *and* SVid out, 1280x800 native res'n w/ Radeon Xpress 1250 (256M dedicated VRAM; upto 896M shared), Vista Home Premium 32-bit, Gigabit ethernet + 802.11b/g, 1394 (FW), IR, 4xUSB 2(all powered), audio in, out, & mic, trackpad w/ 2 buttons & scrollpad (& hotkey to disable trackpad), 5-in-1 mem card slot, PC Card type II slot, V.92 modem, built-in webcam + mic. Incl. 6 cell Li-ion battery, it's 5.3lb. Does all I ask of it and fairly quickly -- it's fast enough to easily record HDTV via my USB2-stick ATSC tuner (evga inDTube), even recording one show while converting & burning another previously recorded at the same time, although it pegs both CPU cores at 100%. But for $400? I'll take my laptop over ANY netbook.