Acer and Asus Subnotebooks Showing Strong Sales

Both Acer and Asus experienced strong sales of their subnotebooks at the end of 2008, and are increasing their predicted sales volumes for 2009.

Acer sold a half million Aspire one units in the U.S. in December alone, and the company now expects to sell 12 to 13 million of the small, low-cost notebooks before the end of this year.

Based in its strong sales of Eee PCs in late 2008, Asus now predicts it will ship over 7 million netbooks this year, according to DigiTimes, who cites unnamed market sources for all these figures.