First thing on Thursday I headed over to Toshiba’s massive booth to check out their new laptop lineup. Chris Casper, Group Marketing Manager for Toshiba’s PC group, was cool enough to take me through his favorites. First stop was the new Satellite e305, the next generation of the e205 that I reviewed several months ago. Aside from improved specs and the next gen of
Acer is probably best known for being one of the players responsible for sparking the netbook craze with the launch of their immensely popular Acer Aspire One. Today, they’re refreshing that line with two new AMD-powered netbooks, the 11.6” Acer Aspire One AO721 and the 10.1” Acer Aspire One AO521.
There is some interesting discussion happening today regarding netbook sales, namely that new devices may be negatively impacting sales and growth.
Paul Thurrott has done a nice job of separating hype from reality. He references IDC’s forecast that 45.6 million mininotebooks (aka netbooks) will be sold in 2011 and 60.3 million units in 2013.
