Acer cuts on 14 and 15'' ultra-thin notebook orders

Not unsurprisingly, the Timeline series sees little orders.

Or so Digitimes reports:

Wistron, OEM for the two models, is producing around 200,000 units per month, down from an expected 600,000 units. The drop might hurt Wistron's notebook shipments in August, added the paper.

Not that they're bad laptops, I'm particularly impressed with the 13.3" Timeline, it has good battery life, very good cooling, a very low profile and both VGA and HDMI outputs, making it perfect to dock or use on the move. The problem is it's just too expensive for the average buyer. That is also Intel's fault, since the single core Core 2 processors used are priced much higher than your usual CPU, without delivering proper performance. Looking at it, it just seems like a thiner regular laptop but underpowered - although it's really well built.

The 14" and 15" models become somewhat pointless as they will still be quite big to carry around comfortably and are more expensive, although they do carry an optical drive, something ever more useless with the advent of big, useful USB drives. From the report, the 13.3" seems unaffected, which is what I've seen available for sale around here.