Aspire One Grows at Record Rate

Will be 24" in time for holidays? The first Acer Aspire One had a 9-inch screen and was extremely popular. It will however be phased out and replaced with a 10-inch variant, and an 11.6" version is in the making already. At this rate of growth, we have calculated that the Aspire One will be a luggable by late July.

The line between netbooks and laptops – if there ever was one – is getting more and more blurred, and soon all that remains will be a mainstream laptop with very poor performance. Dell was the first manufacturer to remove ‘small’ from the netbook formula with its 12-inch Inspiron Mini 12. Even the ‘cheap’ part of the recipe is being phased out as new netbooks are getting bigger and more full-featured.

Now Acer is doing the same with an 11.6-inch version of its Aspire One netbook lineup. The new model comes with an Atom Z530 CPU on the Intel “Poulsbo” chipset with GMA500 graphics, which should be capable of HD video playback (720p and 1080i) according to Intel. The screen resolution is 1366x768.