HP and Acer start mini laptop price war
Hewlett-Packard and Acer have lowered prices of their mini laptop computers as the back-to-school sales season kicks into gear in the U.S., offering bargains for users.
Acer slashed prices on its Aspire one netbooks on Friday to as low as US$329 for one version, while HP revealed new prices for Mini-Notes on its Web site.
Price-cutting by the two big PC vendors could prompt other netbook makers, such as Asustek Computer and Micro-Star International to follow.
Netbooks are mini-laptop PCs designed for mobility, and typically weighing less than 2 kilograms. Most of the components on board, including the microprocessor, are less powerful than those of full-fledged laptops so batteries last longer. They're designed for Internet surfing and work on spreadsheets or word processor documents, not for heavy duty gaming, video editing or other multimedia work.
The HP and Acer netbooks on sale both have 8.9-inch screens, smaller than the most common laptop PC screen size, 15.4 inches.
HP is offering reductions of $100 on some versions of the Mini-Note, with prices good through the end of August.
The biggest deals are in higher end models, which run Microsoft's Windows Vista Business OS.
The price of the HP Mini-Note 2133 KR948UT has been slashed to $789 from $949, according to HP. The device has an 8.9-inch screen, uses a 1.2GHz Via C7-M microprocessor, has 2G bytes of DRAM and a 160G-byte hard disk drive (HDD) for data storage.
The lowest-priced Mini-Note running Windows Vista Home Basic is the KX868AT, which costs $599, down from $786, according to HP.
The lowest priced Mini-Note is the HP 2133 KR922UT at US$499 on Amazon.com and elsewhere, but a better version of that netbook, the Mini-Note 2133 KX89AT offers a lot more for just US$549.
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Dan, what an amazingly
Dan,what an amazingly accurate snapshot of the netbook market. I think they missed the back-to-school market, but you can bet there will be a huge holiday push.
I think the reason for the price drop has more to do with the sudden realization that there is a World of competition, as was discovered at the expo in San Francisco last week.
Big new sites dedicated to selling netbook computers are springing up to meet the new demand (netbookcomputers dotcom sells netbooks and netbook add-ons).
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