First off, Acer's Tablet offerings suck.
Second, the reason Tablet PC sales aren't great at the moment isn't because they cost $200 more than other laptops, it's because they cost more while offering significantly less, aside from the tablet functionality.
Don't get me wrong, I love Tablet PCs. A co-worker of mine has a Fujitsu, and it rocks. But it rocks as a Tablet, not really as a laptop. It's only a medicore laptop. No built in drive bay, significantly slower CPU, etc.
So it's not that consumers need to justify a $200 price increase to buy a Tablet. If that was it, almost everybody would jump at Tablets. It's that consumers need to justify $200 more, AND a slower CPU, AND (usually) a smaller screeen, AND no built in drive bay, etc. That's what the problem is.
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