Asus drops the price of Aspire One to impulse buy territory:
Acer's Aspire One was already one of the most affordable 8.9" mini-notebooks on the market, but now they've gone and dropped the price further while adding a 6-cell battery version to the mix. The Windows XP version (120GB hard drive and 1GB RAM has been reduced $50 from $400 to $350. Their Linux system (8GB SSD and 512MB RAM) dropped $50 as well from $380 to $330. Oh, and those of you wanting the 6-cell system can pick it up for the old price of the 3-cell, $400.To put this in perspective, you can now buy a full-blown XP computer with a 120 GB hard drive for less than the price of an Amazon Kindle.
So is Acer worried about the competition from a potentially $300 Dell system? We don't know, but we sure do like seeing prices going down for once. And for the time being, the Aspire One is probably the best deal in the mini-notebook market. [Laptop]
P.S. -- Will we see a $249 price by Christmas?
1 comment:
...the funniest part is how sony griped and complained about how these new netbooks were going to kill the computer industry...and tech blogs reported it like it was anything but a behemoth whining that it can't keep costs down enough to compete. I wanted to scream at the computer screen.
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