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Acer ditches netbooks for tablets
REVERSING ITS VIEW just three months after declaring that netbooks were here to stay, Acer will reduce its range of netbooks and limit the volumes it makes.
As tablets become more popular, the production of remaining netbooks will be scaled back as they head for the dustbin of obsolete toys. That's what Acer told the IDG news service.
It was only last September that Acer president Scott Lin was quite confident that tablets would not kill off netbooks, so the change in outlook just three months later demonstrates the dramatic impact that tablet devices have had.
Acer might have bowed to the prevailing industry view after Lenovo's COO Rory Read announced last week that tablets were killing netbooks dead.
Acer told The INQUIRER last week that it will launch two Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets in April, one device with a 10-inch screen and the other with a 7-inch display. Acer told IDG that its 10-inch and 7-inch tablets will have Sandy Bridge architecture Intel chips. µ
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Many people, Inq hacks included, don't see the need for tablets. That's fine. For may others, though, tablets are brilliant. They are highly portable (it's not easy to walk around the house/office with a laptop) and they do everything I want them to do (that doesn't include word processing and other keyboard-essential apps -- I have other machines for that).
So, if you don't like tablets, great, but slagging them off will not prevent me and millions of others loving what they enable me to do :-)
Acer I love you, but no AMD? No thanks.
They're a hybrid between smartphones and laptops, easier to whip out, lighter to hold and more convenient to manipulate, unless you're typing; the kinks still need some time to work out, but they're in a separate niche from either a phone or a laptop.
Looking to replace my travel companion, an Aspire One, for a twin core version. No use for a tablet, much less with Android, if I can't use Microsoft Office, or with Sandy Bridge prices.
They manged to fight off Linux from the netbook market, only to lose to iOS and Android for tablets lol
The sooner they stop production the quicker I can pick one up cheap at a remaindering site!
They can keep the Toylets. It's laptops or nothing.