Acer to Phase Out Netbooks in Favor of Tablets

Acer seems to have concluded that tablets are a better business than netbooks. Acer says it will release both a 7-inch and a 10-inch tablet in 2011.

The new tablets are intended to gradually replace the company’s line of netbook computers, said Acer’s Taiwan sales manager Lu Bing-Hsian. “That’s the direction of the market.”

Oddly enough, as tablets proliferate, and get adopted by enterprises and consumers, it is getting harder to determine whether tablets are a new product category, or a replacement form factor for PCs.

Acer to Phase Out Netbooks in Favor of Tablets