Saturday, March 27, 2010

Netbooks hitting the bargain bin in Taiwan

It's no surprise that many manufacturers are giving good deals with the imminent arrival of Pine Trail netbooks and tablets to the market. Digitimes reports that Asus, Acer and MSI are slashing prices for the first-generation Atom netbooks to move them out faster.

A 10-incher from Acer now only sells for US$314 while an Asus Eee PC 1005HA drops to US$298. It's not just Atom-based netbooks that are getting price cuts. Ultra-thins like MSI's X320 now sells for just US$405.

The price drop has also been driven by slowing demand for netbooks and the online news site notes that the manufacturers are changing their focus back to notebooks.

source Digitimes

A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.

Netbooks hitting the bargain bin in Taiwan