Acer to Launch 10" Aspire One Netbook as soon as Februaruy

Acer’s netbooks are set to get bigger and cheaper in the new year, according to Acer Taiwan boss Scott Lin. The company will be launching a 10” version of its Aspire One in February or March of 2009, clearly taking aim at the sweet spot for size and portability already covered by the Eee PC, the Wind and Dell’s Minispiron.

Lin also says that he expects prices to keep dropping, although netbooks won’t see the big reductions of the mid range (US$900-1200) models.

It’s actually pretty hard to see where things are going in the netbok world. They obviously can’t get any smaller without being useless, and they can’t get that much cheaper. In fact, until Intel starts shipping its dual-core Atom processor, these things are going to have to differentiate themselves on the one thing almost no netbook has yet got right — the keyboard and trackpad.

Acer to launch 10-inch Aspire One as early as February next year [