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By N2H
Acer shipped about 2.4 million units of their Aspire One netbook in the third quarter, with a total of 5-6 million Acer netbooks sold in 2008. If their forecast for next year is correct, the global market for netbooks would expand to up to 35 million units, with the Taiwanese manufacturer hoping to grab anything from 40-50% of the pie.
It remains to be seen how this will contribute to the bottom line and image of Acer on a global scale, but for the time being the company seems to be financially healthy with $12.8 billion in revenues so far this year which would represent a 31% increase from 2007.
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In dire economic times, sell netbooks!
Acer has been selling AAO within the $329 - 399 range, which is why eeepc got attention in the first place but for some reason Asus has jacked up their price leaving Acer dominating in this category. The only sad thing is poor after sales support for the Linux versions, feels like the linux version was just an ad campaign.
It’s true, the linux version is seriously not doing well in that area. I gave up and just installed Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex. have everything working that I’d like, now just need that 5 second boot time…
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