Acer is currently enjoying sales of 1.3 million units of notebooks for 2009 in their homeland of Taiwan, and expects this number to be greater throughout the year 2010. Scott Lin, president of Acer Taiwan notes that Taiwan’s market scale is still rather small so a volume of 1.5-1.6 million units should be deemed significant. Lin is confident that many customers will replace their current notebooks with new ones by the second half of 2010, but mentions that netbook’s share of total notebook demand will drop gradually from 30-40% to 20%. Perhaps this is why Acer has been rather conservative with the introduction of new netbooks lately, leaving it to the likes of Samsung and MSI to introduce several new netbook models.

Via DigiTimes

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While this netbook will definitely not be able to pull out any magical gadgets out of its breast pocket, it does look cuter, if not cooler than most other netbooks. It’s a Doraemon-styled mini-notebook PC (OK, a netbook, if you don’t want me trying too hard) from a company called KuroKids, which should be able to bring joy to any child’s face, provided he doesn’t break the thing within five minutes of him getting it in the first place. Only 800 units of this cute netbook will be made available, with each costing roughly $487 USD each. Yes, now that you know the price, it isn’t as cute as it was five seconds ago, no? No word on a release date outside of Taiwan, but it’s likely that this will be sold exclusively in that part of Asia.

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In an earlier report, we told you that Apple has placed orders with Taiwan-based WinTek for touchscreen displays that are to be used in the company’s upcoming netbook. At this point, Apple hasn’t issued official confirmation (and not so much as a statement) regarding the matter, but today a new report on Reuters seems to add more evidence to rumors of an upcoming Apple netbook.
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Last week we saw the official announcement of Taiwan Mobile’s so-called W101 netbook, and while it looked somewhat interesting on paper, it appears that it looks even better in photos, if its official pictures are to be used as basis. Taiwan Mobile only revealed the full set of W101 netbook photos recently, and from it we can discern that it won’t be just another bland white netbook. It actually looks pretty sleek, and might really be worth the price Taiwan Mobile is asking for it (which is about $421 USD–oh wait, nevermind what I just about the netbook being worth it because of its looks). In any case, it will come with an Intel Atom N270 processor, 10-inch screen, 8GB SSD, 3 USB ports, and built-in 3G. See a gallery full of the Taiwan Mobile W101′s photos after the break.
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