Filed under: News | Notebooks and PCs
May 5 2011, 6:18am CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Acer still believes in netbooks despite the dent tablets left in sales especially in the United States. In an interview with Forbes, Acer senior product marketing and brand manager Eric Ackerson argues that there is still an opportunity for netbooks sales.
The main argument is the low price point at around $250. Additionally netbooks are getting closer to notebook performance, which is in turn another problem for companies like Acer. Netbooks then eat into the higher priced notebook market. Either way you turn it, tablets take away market share from netbooks and notebooks.
I agree that netbooks will not go away soon, but lost their appeal. Netbooks are ideal low-budget computers and ideal first computers for kids. The main attention will be though on tablets this Holiday and Black Friday Sales Season.
The netbook shown above is the Acer Aspire One AOD255E selling for $251.98 on Amazon.
Luigi Lugmayr
Luigi Lugmayr (Google) is the founding chief Editor of I4U News and brings over 15 years
experience in the technology field to the ever evolving and exciting
world of gadgets. He started I4U News back in 2000 and evolved it into
vibrant technology magazine.
Luigi can be contacted directly at ml@i4u.com.
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