Acer will stop making cheap crap, but keep selling netbooks. Discuss.

Here is a little bit of a head-scratcher: Acer has said it would stand by its man , which thus is the netbook, but CEO J.T. Wang also recently told Dow Jones that his company will stop making “cheap and unprofitable products.” So, that is it? Will the manufacturer keep churning out the reasonably priced (or even lower specced) machines that it managed to sell 1.7 million of last quarter? Or will it stop “[blindly] pursuing market share” with affordable, but poorly made crap? Wang specifically said that Ultrabooks would become the company’s “key growth driver next year” and hopefully return Acer to profitability. If that fails, we’re sure there’s loads of room for a number of its pastel wares over on the Home Shopping Network .

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