Acer CEO: Netbooks Not Dead Yet

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Thursday, September 30th, 2010


Acer CEO Scott Lin believes netbooks are not dead and that they’ll see about 40 million units sold in 2010 and a similar number in 2011. He expects the high performance Atom N550 from Intel to increase speed and reduce price to about $300, which is pretty darn cheap.

I still say they’re garbage.

via Digitimes

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