Once in a while, a manufacturer actually gets a product right. The Acer 1410, which uses a CULV processor, provides the extra processing power that many users are after when they want their netbook to perform more like an ultraportable. All of this in a 3 pound package is an alluring deal with an 11.6″ [...]
Continue reading...Straddling the line between traditional notebooks, and netbooks, are these CULV models. Acer has an example of such a device, the Aspire 1410. Here’s a quick rundown of the specs: 11.6″ display, 1366 x 768 Core 2 Solo processor, ULV SU3500, 1.4 GHz 2 GB of RAM 250 GB SATA hard drive Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 Multigesture touchpad WiFi b/g/draft-N 4-in-1 flash [...]
Continue reading...14. August 2009 | by Jonas
The Acer “thin and light” models blur the line between netbooks, and traditional notebooks. Up until now, they have been available in screen sizes 13 inches and up. While they offered 8 hour battery lives, previously only netbook territory, when the price started at $599, they were not direct competition. Now Acer, whose netbooks are quite [...]
Continue reading...30. July 2009 | by Jonas
While Acer and ASUS plan on taking a break from introducing new netbook gear, their rival over at HP will have none of that. Rather, they are planning on introducing two new models in the months ahead. The first is a revision of their current 10.1″ netbook, the HP Mini. No word on what the changes [...]
Continue reading...25. June 2009 | by Jonas
The Timeline 3810T definitely stretches the definiton of a laptop, and shows how blurry things are becoming. However, in the end, one of the values of the netbook movement is that more portable hardware with longer battery lives is the current trend- even if it doesn’t use an Atom chip. The Timeline uses the Intel Core [...]
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7. December 2009 | by Jonas
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