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<\/a><\/div>\nWe’re sort of loving Acer’s new bad-boy vibe — not only have company execs recently gone on record saying that US PC manufacturers will be dead within 20 years<\/a> and that the “change the Microsoft-Intel environment<\/a>” but now they’re standing firm while everyone else races to do a tablet. At least that’s the word from Acer Taiwan president Scott Lin, who told Digitimes<\/em> that while Acer can certainly produce a tablet device, it doesn’t fit into the company’s business model. What’s more, he doubts that other companies can simply copy Apple’s hardware and succeed — instead, Acer’s going to focus on ultra-thin laptops, a category Acer expects to account for 20-30 percent of its business this year. Lin also said Acer will introduce some new models that are less then 2cm (.7 inches) thick — assuming there’s an ARM-based Chrome OS<\/a> netbook in that mix, we can certainly see the super thin and light laptop category and the tablet category aligning as direct competitors in the near future.<\/p>\n Acer not making a tablet, will focus on ultra-thin laptops<\/a> originally appeared on Engadget<\/a> on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n Permalink<\/a> | Buy This Item: [Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/h6>\n
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