Chad O.

Acer Aspire One at Best Buy

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Acer Aspire One It looks like more of the price drops for the 8.9″ Acer Aspire One netbook / sub-notebook are starting to pop up, and this time in a retail store in the US.

Best Buy prominently features the Acer Aspire One in today’s (Sunday) flyer. They are calling it an “Exclusive”.

Specifications:
– Model: A0A150-1570
– Windows XP Home
– 1GB of RAM
– 120GB HDD

The SKU shown is 8967335, however it doesn’t yet show up in their online laptop area . When Circuit City started carrying Aspire Ones, many stores didn’t have the hardware needed to display the Aspire Ones (the security hardware that is) because they were much smaller than their normal laptops, and you had to ask somebody to get you one. The same maybe true of Best Buy – they may not be out on display just yet in the actual store. Keep in mind they only guarantee three per store.

This is going to be big over the long term – now that many consumers can get exposed to these things, at this price point, it’s going to force other companies to drop their prices, and more importantly, as many have said, this will be the shove that netbooks need to really become mainstream machines.

Below is the ad:

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Sylvania g Netbook Meso Review (LAPTOP Mag)

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LAPTOP Magazine has published their review of the 8.9″ Sylvania g Netbook Meso (Which is also known as the Amtek Elego elsewhere). They compared the keyboard to keyboards found on smaller 7″ netbooks (Asus Eee PC , Everex CloudBook). They recommend the Acer Aspire One … Read more

More on Future Asus Eee PCs

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Asustek Earlier this week, the Asus Eee PC roadmap was leaked by accident (or not by accident, you never know in this industry).

Asustek’s President Jerry Shen has come out and discussed some of the Eee PC models seen in the roadmap (although he didn’t name them by model).

He confirmed what many of us have believed for a while, that Asustek Computer is going after many different market segments and many different price points. This is due in part to their belief that Intel’s forecast for demand of upwards of one billion netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices (MID) is correct. Shen believes that in the third quarter of this year, that Eee PC shipments will meet or exceed 1.5 – 1.6 million units, putting them on track for five million units.

It’s also due to their confidence that from here on out, Intel is going to provide a steady stream of Intel Atom N720 CPUs (as well as the upcoming dual-core Atoms) based on demand.

Asustek is adding two new categories to the netbook field this year, “Ultimate” and “Pro Fashion” (or at least two new categories in Asustek’s lineups).

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ThinkPad SL Series – Where it Fits in

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Over on the Design Matters blog, an official Lenovo blog / website, David Hill, one of the members of the Lenovo ThinkPad team, has posted an article / commentary that has attracted a lot of attention and debate. It concerns the recently announced ThinkPad SL … Read more

Lenovo ThinkPad SL300 – More Details

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More details about the upcoming 13.3-inch Lenovo ThinkPad SL300 have recently been released or confirmed through a data sheet from Lenovo. The new naming convention for ThinkPads is also mentioned, which we already figured out, i.e. the third character of the name indicates the size … Read more