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Acer Drops Price of Aspire One

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ThinkFree Original post #1
Dec 17, 2008 at 3:28 PM
Acer has now dropped the price of the Aspire One netbook to just Rs. 17,499+taxes.S. Rajendran, Chief Marketing Officer, Acer India said, “Christmas is one of the biggest gifting seasons world over. With this latest initiative from Acer, the Aspire one can be an ideal gift during this festive season. We also believe that this would be a beachhead to the widespread adoption of mobile computing in India as consumers in a slowing economy look at ‘super value’ for money offerings.The Acer Aspire one, which has been a rage the world over in diverse geographies including America, Europe, Japan, South Africa and the APAC, is a revolutionary breakthrough by Acer in product design, functionality. We foresee this move on price point as a 'major inflection point' in the Indian computer
market by enabling consumers across the spectrum to connect to the worldwide web through affordable mobile computing devices from a world class brand.”

Source: *tech2.in.com/india/news/laptops/acer-drops-price-of-aspire-one/54491/0
Abhishek Dwivedi
Dec 17, 2008 at 3:33 PM
hehehe...thy had...EEE PC is giving a tough fight :p
IronManForever
Dec 17, 2008 at 8:59 PM
This stands at a better level than EEE-PC when feature-price-performance all are considered...
NIGHTMARE
Dec 18, 2008 at 3:09 AM
waiting for when ikari & Corsair PSU rate r going down no Christmas effect
MetalheadGautham
Dec 18, 2008 at 4:39 PM
Config ? Does this one come with 160GB HDD and 1GB RAM ?
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axxo #6
Dec 18, 2008 at 5:07 PM
+ taxes it will come to 21k I guess.
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Dec 18, 2008 at 8:10 PM
At some press release online, I saw the WinXp home preloaded will cost under 20000 + taxes. I just checked the price in chennai. Inclusive of 4% VAT the price comes to 20600 for the 120GB model and 21300 for the 160GB model.
MetalheadGautham
Dec 18, 2008 at 8:22 PM
NucleusKore said that his experience with Aspire One was horrible. Can someone confirm how it fares compared to the EEE PC ?

What about a comparison to the Lenovo Laptop with 2.0GHz Celeron, 512MB RAM, 80GB HDD, GMA 950, DVD-Combo Drive costing 20K including taxes.
IronManForever
Dec 19, 2008 at 2:30 PM
MetalheadGautham said:
What about a comparison to the Lenovo Laptop with 2.0GHz Celeron, 512MB RAM, 80GB HDD, GMA 950, DVD-Combo Drive costing 20K including taxes.
I do not know of any such laptop currently in production.
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ThinkFree #10
Dec 19, 2008 at 3:40 PM
Config ? Does this one come with 160GB HDD and 1GB RAM ?
Read review here

+ taxes it will come to 21k I guess.
17500+4%VAT=18200

NucleusKore said that his experience with Aspire One was horrible. Can someone confirm how it fares compared to the EEE PC ?

What about a comparison to the Lenovo Laptop with 2.0GHz Celeron, 512MB RAM, 80GB HDD, GMA 950, DVD-Combo Drive costing 20K including taxes.
I have heard that both Aspire One and EEE PC don't last more than a year. Lenovo website shows only two netbooks, none is having config similar to mentioned by you.