Acer sells and estimated 5.8 million Aspire Ones, 10" model for the future

Posted on 26 November 2008, Last updated on 11 November 2019 by

aspire oneAccording to Akihabaranews.com, Acer will sell an estimated 5.8 million (you read that right, 5,800,000) Aspire One netbooks [Portal page][review] by the end of the year. That is a pretty big number considering that the Aspire One wasn’t even released until Q2 of 2008. Akihabaranews says that Acer sent them some press info showing the sales for each quarter as well as the estimated number for the final quarter:

Quarter

# of Aspire Ones sold

Q1

0

Q2

800,000

Q3

2,200,000

Q4

2,800,000 [estimated]

 
In addition to these impressive figures, Scott Lin, Acer Taiwan president has also stated that they will be following in the steps of some other companies and offer a 10" version of the Aspire One. Said to have the same specs, lets call it the Aspire Ten for now, will go on sale possibly in February or March of 2009.
 

1 Comments For This Post

  1. Hans says:

    It would be nice to know the mix of Linux vs. XP. And the geographical distribution of both of those.

    Hans

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