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According to Digitimes, yours will be bigger than mine in February 2009.
Of course, I’m talking about my Acer Aspire One which will be available in February or March with a 10-inch display. The current model features an 8.9-inch display.
Scott Lin, Acer Taiwan president, also indicated that 12.1-inch, 13.3-inch, and 15.6-inch LED-backlit laptops will arrive in [...]

Oooh. Another gadget for my Christmas list. (Providing it’s available in time for my Acer Aspire One…)
Runcore is delivering fast SSD storage in mini-PCIe format for netbooks.
How fast?
From Kevin at jkOnTheRun:
jkk ran speed-tests on the storage and thanks to the high-quality controller paired with the MLC flash memory, he saw reads top out over 70Mbps with writes [...]

There’s quite a disparity in the number of units shipped between Asus, Acer and MSI.
Even though MSI netbooks have received positive reviews and have somewhat of a cult following, estimated unit sales of the little machines will only be between 600,000 and 700,00 in 2008. Compare that to Asus’ estimated 5 million units and Acer’s [...]

ASUS has indicated that it will ship 5 million Eee PC netbooks this year. That’s big. But Acer thinks it’s output will be bigger.
Acer said that shipments of its Aspire One netbooks could reach 6 million units this year.
Do I hear 7 million from anyone? Anyone?
[via PC World]

I’ve been searching for a 6-cell extended battery for my Acer Aspire One. I’ve been searching for weeks now and the best I could turn up were catalog listings that said “out of stock” or “coming soon.”
eBay also turned up empty - until yesterday. I found an eBay Power Seller with a white extended battery…in the UK. [...]