"Acer has clarified its pricing plan for the eagerly awaited Aspire One sub-notebook--and it's clarified the price upwards.
"At launch, the company stated the basic version of the Eee PC rival would run Linux, pack in 8GB of solid-state storage and 512MB of memory, and sport a £199 price tag. Company officials stressed that that figure included VAT, the UK's 17.5 per cent sales tax..."