Acer Netbook Will Dual-boot Android & Windows: Good Idea IMHO

Photo credit: Yen-Shyang Hwang, Digitimes, June 2009

Digitimes’ headline…

Acer Android netbooks will still ship with Windows, reveals chairman

…didn’t quite make sense to me when I first saw it. But, if you read the associated text, it makes more sense. It turns out that Acer plans to ship a netbook that dual boots to either Google Android or Microsoft Windows (presumably Windows 7 by the time the netbook ships). The article goes on to note, though, that Acer may consider shipping an Android-only netbook in the future.

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