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If the Taiwan market is any indication, prices may soon come down on dual-core netbooks in the U.S. Netbook prices in Taiwan are on a downwards trend, recently falling to around $340, and some models have gone lower than that. Notebook players say it's a necessary adjustment in order to create some separation with the emerging tablet market, Digitimes reports.
Nevertheless, notebook makers aren't worried about tablet PCs cutting into sales of netbooks, they're simply trying to create a clear boundary between the two segments. And who knows how far prices will go down -- Toshiba, for example, has already slashed the price of its NB500 netbook from around $490 to a little under $340 in Taiwan, while Asus' 1015PEM is selling for around the same price.
It will be interesting to see how this all affects the U.S. market. Dual-core netbooks already street for around $330-$350 in the U.S., and so far there aren't any worthwhile tablets in the same price tier.
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RichieB07
February 22, 2011 at 2:20pm
I recently bought an Acer Aspire One AOD255 for $200. To my surprise, I found out it's a dual-core netbook. For what I need it to do, it was a steal.
PCLinuxguy
February 22, 2011 at 9:21pm
Awesome! would love to see either an N330 or D510 dual core atom w/ hyperthreading bundled with an NVidia Ion in one of those for $200 or less as prices fall. nice purchase man.
User69
February 22, 2011 at 12:38am
I recently bought a Asus Eee Pc 1215T AMD 1.7 Single core for $330. Although not dual-core it performs great and it comes with a AMD/ATI 4250 graphics card which is great for internet-browsing and 1080p video which is a more important feauture than mult-tasking in my opinion. Its got a 12 inch screen and weighs under 2 pounds with 4 hours battery life. I know tablets are the greatest and latest thing right now but I still don't see the use for one when you have Smartphones that are practically the same thing (I'm looking at you iPhone and iPad) and lack a keyboard. When tablets start to offer feautures that smartphones and cheaper alternative netbooks don't have for less money that will be the day I'll buy a tablet. Somebody that has a tablet, what is the attraction? If you have an iPad don't even bother to talk to comment - first your an idiot because you bought an overpriced/underpowered product and still most likely own an iPhone already,\.
PCLinuxguy
February 21, 2011 at 9:20pm
if they drop to $200 or less for the really nice netbook or "mini notebook" then it'll be a steal and would be tempting
