Pre-Order prices for the 8.9-inch Acer Aspire One are starting to pop up.
UK retailer eXpansys is listing the ultraportable netbook at £244.40 w/VAT (£208 without – $407.56 US, 262.80 Euros). This is obviously for the white UK model, running a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, with an 80GB hard drive, 512MB of RAM, and running on Linux. The manufacturer part # / model # is asp150L512 .
Heise online-Preisvergleich (a listing of German retailers) is listing several white and blue models ranging from the A110L for € 329 ($510 USD), to the A150L for € 359 ($556.73 USD), and A150X € 399 ($618.77 USD). All models listed have a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU.
The A110L: 512MB Memory, 8GB Solid State Drive (SSD), 3-cell battery, Linux
The A150L: 1GB Memory, 80GB Hard Drive, 3-cell battery, Linux
A150X: 1GB Memory, 80GB Hard Drive, 3-cell battery, Windows XP Home
For US customers, the electronics importer Dynamism is listing import Acer Aspire Ones, but are not currently taking pre-orders (it will be available in the US through retailers, but those who can’t wait maybe able to get them faster through Dynamism).
Release dates are not set in stone at this point, although some German retailers are listing mid to late July.
Read:
– Heise online-Preisvergleich (German)
– eXpansys
– Dynamism