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Not much is known about the mysterious competitor from Acer, but we know they ordered 1 million of them from contract manufacturer Wistron. On top of that we know that they will have 7 or 9 inch screens and will cost about $470.
They will be targeted to compete with the Asus Eee PC and the Everex CloudBook in both specs and price. A slightly larger screen would be kind of nice, maybe some more flash storage or an actual hard drive wouldn’t be an entirely bad idea either.
It will probably run some version of Linux as well, it would be nice if they could be the first to just put plain old Ubuntu on it instead of trying to modify or make it better, it’s the most popular distro of Linux for a reason; it’s already really easy to use. Even RedHat or Fedora would be better than the remade distros that have been shipping with these laptops.
[via zdnet]
All the cool kids are making sub note books :::looks at Dell and Gateway::: (but for real I would never buy a Dell nor a Gateway ever again)
Acer should make it with more SSD storage and RAM because Asus Eee is lack of storage and memory.
Patrick - It needs neither more ram or storage. Run with the default OS in advanced desktop mode and tell me that you really need more. If you want a WinXP machine buy a WinXP machine. If you want more RAM just go buy a SO-DIMM and install it. Want more storage by a big fat SD-HC card and have done. Out of the box you have an affordable solution, upping the spec will just take it out of the reach of most people.
My suggestion would be to ditch the internal SSD altogether and just supply the machine with an SD card and two SD card slots. That way they avoid the problem that Asus had with the 4G’s going like hot cakes and having 2G’s sitting on the shelf. A combo of 1 Compact Flash and 1 SD card would be very sweet… Also lower the price of entry on the bare bones model.