Archive for August 22, 2008

With the recent announcement from Acer, regarding the price drops on the current range of their Aspire One netbooks; they are also releasing a new model – AOA150-1447.

Featuring a six-cell battery, 160GB internal hard drive and Windows XP Home, the Aspire one is perfect for on-the-go business travellers and environments which require long-lasting battery power. The Aspire one AOA150-1447 is now available via Acer authorized resellers with prices beginning at $399.

Those who are wishing that Acer would still reduced the price of their Aspire One would be glad to know that Acer has brought down the price of the said netbook to $329 from its previous SRP of $379. Although it’s not quite clear why Acer decided to bring down the price of the Aspire One, it could only point to one thing, it needs to be more competitive and is probably not getting any mileage as against the more popularly priced Eee PC 901 which is currently selling at Amazon for $379.99

For a difference of $50, you’ll get the same specs as the Eee PC 901 – 8.9-inch display, 1.6GHz ATOM processor, 512 MB of RAM, 8GB of Flash Drive and Linux OS. So, if you’re not really an Eee PC fan and looking for just a netbook which you can tout around, the Acer Aspire One would seem to be a better choice. Will this affect the Eee PC 901’s sales? I would like think that it won’t really matter. The interest with the Eee PC 901 has already gone down with the successive release of other Eee PC models.But if ACER is still targetting those who have not bought a netbook by now, chances are they might get those in their sales inventory.

Incidentally, other higher-end models of the Acer Aspire One has also received a price cut. The mid-range Aspire One is now selling for $349 from $399.

Via Electronista

A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.

Acer Aspire One Gets a Price Cut