Acer Chairman JT Wang briefly mentioned Acer’s 8.9″ Acer Aspire One netbook in a discussion about Acer’s finances, shipments, and goals for this year and next. Notebooks as a whole accounted for almost 63 million of the 139 million total PCs that Acer shipped in … Read more
Acer is looking to expand its current netbook line beyond it’s 8.9-inch Acer Aspire One line, according to LAPTOP Magazine’s Joanna Stern. They are also going to be adding the Gateway brand to a new netbook line as well. Joanna attended a global press conference … Read more
James Kendrick has a great article about the rise of the netbooks and how they are changing the laptop landscape these days, and why peoples’ views (mainstream users) are changing. He points to the iPhone as changing how people are viewing netbooks. They are basically … Read more
Good news for Acer fans, HP and Acer have settled their patent lawsuits. Hewlett-Packard made the announcement yesterday that the patent-infringement lawsuits it filed last October against Acer were settled. They involved three federal court lawsuits as well as a couple of investigations between HP … Read more
Acer is going to be pushing Linux “aggressively” on its laptop offerings. Earlier this week at Computex, they announced the 8.9-inch Acer Aspire One which apparently is the beginning of an effort to sell laptops with Linux (although the Aspire One fits more into the … Read more