The already crowded laptop market has recently seen a new class of entrants.  The new products belong to a segment called budget thin-and-lights, or CULV (consumer ultra-low voltage) laptops if you listen to Intel.  Meant to sit between the super low-price netbooks and high-dollar ultraportables, like the MacBook Air, these new notebooks (which lack optical drives) are aimed at students and frequent travelers who want an affordable and light laptop, but need something more full-sized and full-powered than a netbook.

Once again, the macles* blog has revealed a new Acer Aspire One.  This new netbook will be Acer’s biggest yet.

Here are some photos of Acer’s supposed new Aspire One.  This version looks to be slimmer than the current 10″ model, perhaps taking a note from the Asus S101.

Finally, we get our first look at Acer’s upcoming 10″ Aspire One. It looks slightly different form the 8.9″ original, and packs one big improvement.

RadioShack offers a netbook for under $100, but what’s the catch? Read on to find out.

Acer has just annouced that the Aspire One will be getting a price cut; making one of the better netbooks out there an even sweeter deal.  The Windows XP model will now sell for $349 (down from $399), while the Linux model will sell for $329 (from $379).  There will also be a version with a larger 6-cell battery and Windows XP for $399.  If you are interested in a 8.9″ screened netbook, these prices are pretty enticing.

Around a year ago, Asus created the soon to be dubbed “netbook” market with its diminutive Eee PC.  The Eee was a surprise hit and spawned many imitators.  Pretty soon, it seemed like everyone and their mother had a subnotebook device in their product pipeline.  Some of those products have been hits, while others have been misses.  With all these new models from the likes of HP, MSI, Acer and soon to be joined by Dell and Lenovo, is there really a market for all these devices?  Or is this …