Acer and Asustek looking at booming netbook sales in 2009
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Acer and Asustek Computer have both found new confidence after seeing booming sales of their netbooks in the US during the year-end holiday season, and have set high sales targets for netbooks in 2009, according to market sources.
Having recorded sales of 500,000 Aspire one-series netbooks in the US in December, Acer expects sales to top 12-13 million units in 2009, the sources said.
8.9-inch Aspire one netbooks performed strongly in 2008 and the company expects the model to perform even better in 2009, said Scott Lin, president, Acer Taiwan. Based on strong sales of the 10.2-inch Eee PC 1000HA and the 8.9-inch Eee PC 900HA during the final weeks of 2008, Asustek now targets to ship 7.1-7.3 million Eee PCs in 2009, added the market sources.
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