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I’d say this is probably better then the stuff Asus has (Similarly specced Asus Eee 901 is $589 in USA while Acer Aspire One is $379). MSI Wind might have a slightly larger screen and a hard drive, but it’s also 38% more expensive.

Acer Aspire One is available at 289€ from France: http://www.rueducommerce.fr/ordinateur/showdetl.cfm?Product_ID=436637#xtorAL-25

Dell is coming with perhaps even better value in September.

Of course, these Atom notebooks are over twice the price of the 7.5″ sunlight readable AMD Geode based OLPC at 120€ (you can buy two get one worldwide in September, the second laptop you buy goes to a child in a developing nation) and about 4 times the price of the ARM based laptops that are also coming up in the next few months.

But if you absolutely are considering getting an Atom based laptop, this Acer Aspire One does look like pretty good value to me. The slightly cheaper Asus Eee 700 has a much less usable smaller LCD screen and a much less usable smaller keyboard as well.

Here’s a nice french video review comparing this 8.9″ netbook with 12″ and a 15″ laptops, to have an idea of the size difference, Acer managed to make the keyboard about the same size as on the 12″ laptop that is shown, just so you aren’t too surprised of its small size when you receive it: http://dailymotion.com/video/x628dx_lesnumeriques-acer-aspire-one_tech

This is definitely much better value then any of the 2000€ Fujitsu, Sony or Flybook small laptops which were the only ones available at this size about a year ago.

It might be worth waiting a few weeks to see if Acer will release an Aspire One with built-in HSDPA.