14 DAY TRIAL // Acer, like all other top-tier IT players, is always making and releasing newer and better products, so it comes as no surprise to hear that more laptops will come out of its labs within the next month or so.
End-users paying attention to the happenings on the IT market might be aware of the fact that Acer is one of the world's biggest suppliers of mobile computers.
The company has many notebooks of various performance levels on sale and is one of, if not the biggest supplier of low-end laptops, otherwise known as netbooks.
Recently, the outfit has also been getting real on the tablet segment, unleashing, or at least detailing, such things as the Acer Iconia Tab W500.
On the laptop front, one of the more recent developments was the transition of the TimelineX line to the Sandy Bridge platform from Intel.
Now, a recent report published by Digitimes suggests that even more additions to the Timeline series will be made starting April, 2011.
They will be ultra-thin notebooks powered by the same Sandy Bridge platform as the ones above and will have display sizes of 13 to 15 inches.
Most of the orders will be placed with Compal or manufacture, this making the latter the supplier of almost half of all Acer notebooks for the year.
Either way so-called industry sources place the prices of the new Sandy bridge notebook within the NT$25,000 to NT$30,000 range, which is the equivalent of US$851 to 1,021.
Unfortunately, neither Compal nor Acer has made any official comment on this newest report, so users will just have to wait and see if it does prove true or not.
Either way, it will be interesting to see how the portable computers fare against other Sandy Bridge laptops, as well as machines based on ADM Fusion.