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Acer Aspire One Price Cut

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

TechGadgets.in is reporting that the price for the Acer Aspire One sub-notebook is being cut to $329 USD (for the Linux version) in the states.  This is the price before sales tax or VAT.  at the moment the Aspire One seems to be retailing for about €299 here in Finland and if one adds VAT to the new price of the Aspire One it comes to about €272, so not a large cut in the end, but it still places the Aspire One at a very attractive price point (IF we see a similar price cut here in Europe).

And here’s my math, if anyone’s interested:

329 USD = 222.86 EUR [1 USD = 0.677 EUR]

222.86 * 1.22 = 271.54 EUR [22% is the VAT here in Finland]

TechGadgets.in

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Hands on With Acer’s Aspire One Netbook

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

No, I’m afraid that no one sends me things to test…  But PC World does have a hands on review of the Acer Aspire One.  And aren’t happy they are with it.. The author calls it “one of the best mini-notebooks I’ve tested for the price — which ranges from US$399 to $499, software and other features.”

PC World

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Acer Aspire One Pre-Review

Friday, June 13th, 2008

PCPro has a pre-review (if there is such a thing, or would that make it a preview?) of the Acer Aspire One.  Expect a full review next week, but overall it looks very nice.

PCPro



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Acer Aspire One Video Review

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Here’s a video review of the Acer Aspire One. Forgive the weird British folks…

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Acer to Push Linux on Regular Notebooks

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Aspire One

In addition to putting Linux on its sub-notebook, the Aspire One, Acer is set to start pushing Linux on regular notebooks later this year.

Acer already sells Linux on media center PCs, but the trend should continue in Linux’s favour, according to Gianpiero Morbello, vice president of marketing and brand at Acer.

“We have shifted towards Linux because of Microsoft,” he told VNUnet. “Microsoft has a lot of power and it is going to be difficult, but we will be working hard to develop the Linux market.”

Acer sees two killer apps with Linux on computers: operation and cost. Its flavour of Linux will boot in 15 seconds compared to minutes for Windows, and the open source operating system can extend battery life from five to seven hours.

“Microsoft’s operating system typically costs around £50 per unit,” said David Drummond, UK managing director at Acer, to VNUnet. “On a £1,000 PC that is peanuts, but on a £200 computer it is a major issue.”

Tech Report & VNUnet

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More Acer Aspire One Details

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Acer Aspire One

  • Atom-based
  • 8.9-inch, 1024 x 600 pixel
  • runs XP or Linux
  • 802.11b/g WiFi
  • 1GB of memory
  • 8GB SSD or 2.5-inch 80GB
  • SD card slot
  • optional 6-cell battery

Expected to hit the US in September for $399 (that’s still unofficial) with a 3-cell, 2200mAh battery, standard.

Acer Aspire One ports

Engadget

UPDATE: Full press release after the break.
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Acer’s Eee PC Rival Revealed

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Aspire One

Well, well. This IS turning out to be a busy day for sub-notebooks.  There’s little detail available yet, basically all we have is what can be seen off the leaked pictures that showed up on UMPC Portal’s forums today.  Looks like a 8.9″ screen and some sort of (probably) Linux UI.  Digitoday mentions a 299€ price tag, which would make this a full 100€ cheaper than the Eee PC.

Also Mobile01 (Google Translation) has it that the screen resolution is 1024×768, it runs Windows XP SP3 and is powered by an Intel Atom CPU.

How much of this is true/accurate?  Time will tell…

[UMPC Portal via Engadget]

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