Asustek To Launch $200 – $250 Chrome or Android OS Netbook In June

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Digitimes’ Monica Chen and Joseph Tsai report that Asustek Computer is set to launch a new netbook priced at US$200-250 in June, in cooperation with Intel, and hopes to achieve its goal of shipping six million netbooks in 2011, according to sources from upstream component makers.

The authors note that pushing back against the tablet PC revolution, a 10-inch single-core Atom netbook with a price below US$280 has already appeared in retail channels, while dual-core models’ ASPs are only at around US$405, but with more tablet PCs are set to launch in the near future, market watchers are cautiously conservative about netbook’s future.

However, Chen and Tsai report that Asustek’s new US$200-$250 netbook will either adopt either Google’s Android 3.0 or Google’s new Chrome OS in order to achieve that price level, wir the new device expected to attract consumers who only need to perform office work and Internet browsing.

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