Acer has played well in the CULV segment for the last year, successfully straddling the line between netbooks, and fuller featured notebooks. These CULV units have been sold under the Acer Timeline brand. Acer is rebooting one of the models as the Acer Aspire One 752. It will have the current single core CULV, the Celeron [...]
Continue reading...16. February 2010 | by Jonas
When the Ion platform got shoehorned onto the standard atom netbook, it sought to address a major shortcoming of netbooks- namely graphics capabilities. While Ion does push up the graphics of a netbook, it does so at the expense of battery life. Not everyone wants to make this tradeoff. Now Acer is introducing the 532g which [...]
Continue reading...11. February 2010 | by Jonas
Last year, the CULV chips started a new category of laptop. These chips offered adequate power, but allowed the notebook to be made thin, and in turn light, that gave more traditional netbooks a run for their money. Acer is apparently not resting on their laurels. It is anticipated that there will be some new CULV [...]
Continue reading...22. January 2010 | by Jonas
There has been a whole flurry of new netbooks in the last month. Acer is generally known for their more affordable gear, and their new model that uses the latest Atom N450 chip is the Aspire One 532h. I have to admit that with a price tag of $299, sometimes it almost seems a little [...]
Continue reading...4. January 2010 | by Jonas
The annual “gadgetfest” has not quite started yet in Las Vegas, and there are already plenty of new netbooks spied. One highly anticipated model is the Acer AO532h. This is the successor to the popular Aver AO250 series that was a good balance between price and product. Today, the latest and greatest can be ordered [...]
Continue reading...18. December 2009 | by Jonas
If you have waited it out, there a few good deals to be had right now on netbooks. The downside is that it might not make it under the Christmas tree, but hey, patience should be rewarded with a few bucks off. I am excited about the Acer Aspire AOD250-1584. For those that don’t memorize Acer’s [...]
Continue reading...7. December 2009 | by Jonas
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...3. December 2009 | by Robert Nelson
According to a recent DigiTimes report, Acer is already planning on releasing a Chrome OS based netbook sometime during the second half of 2010. Of course, that honestly does not come as much of a surprise because Acer has already shown some Google netbook love with their recently released dual-booting Android/Windows XP based Aspire One [...]
Continue reading...24. November 2009 | by Robert Nelson
And I return with yet another Black Friday netbook offer. This time the deal can be found at Target and will get you a 10.1-inch Acer Aspire One netbook for $199. And on top of the discounted price, Target will also toss in a free neoprene sleeve. Of course, on the flip side and just in [...]
Continue reading...16. November 2009 | by Jonas
Living in the suburbs, I can totally see why users could need a mobile data plan. There are plenty of places where there is no WiFi, and folks need want to be connected. The cellphone carriers are happy to oblige, but they offer a netbook at a slightly reduced price, and then sign you up [...]
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3. March 2010 | by Jonas
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