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Ultrabook’s Ultraprice Not Flying
With MacBook Airs gaining in popularity, the idea of a thin and light portable, that retains the full power of a laptop is an appealing concept. With optical drives on the slow (but steady) decline, it is a painless sacrifice for portability that an ultrabook can promise. However, there is still one hurdle to overcome. This [...]
Continue reading...Acer Takes A Hit- Netbooks Blamed
24. July 2011 | by Jonas
Acer saw their fortunes rise and fall the last few years, paralleling closely the sales of netbooks. Being a bargain leader in this area, at one point they did have some serious market share, but those glory days do appear to be behind them. Now with preliminary Q2 2011 data, it is clear that Acer had [...]
Continue reading...Acer Aspire One Happy 2 Netbook
11. July 2011 | by Jonas
Coming from the ‘Down under” of Australia, Acer is coming out with their Aspire One Happy 2 netbook. Yet another example of a netbook name that hardly rolls off the tongue. It is the revamped version of Acer’s bestselling netbook. The Happy 2 is a 10.1″ display netbook, in a 1.3 kg package. There is a [...]
Continue reading...Acer Aspire One AOD257 Netbook
29. June 2011 | by Jonas
For all of Acer’s shortcomings, they do one thing quite well, and that is to undercut the competition. On a personal note, I do own two of their products, and while not the absolute highest quality, they do both get the job done. The AOD257 makes one wonder why should anyone trade Windows for a Chromebook [...]
Continue reading...Acer AC700 Chromebook
27. June 2011 | by Jonas
While the concept of the Google Chromebook is intriguing, the initial pricing definitely seemed too high to me. After all, the point of giving up Windows was to bring the price down, and with Windows netbooks for significantly less, the Chromebook makes little sense. Enter the Acer AC700 Chromebook, a second wave of the Chromebook. The [...]
Continue reading...Netbooks Are Dead… Again
16. June 2011 | by Jonas
For the last year, it seems like there has been some weekly announcement that the netbook is currently dead. This time around, PC Mag is announcing this on the basis that Acer shipped 400k to 500k netbooks in May, and that is half of the month before. Uh-hum. Are we forgetting that May is not any [...]
Continue reading...Netbook Deals
12. June 2011 | by Jonas
It is easy to forget that one of the great pluses of a netbook is that it is inexpensive. Once an item goes below $250, it does not need to be so perfect. Today we have a pair of netbooks for under $230, and this does buy some serious hardware, and they are not even [...]
Continue reading...Acer TimelineX Notebook
7. June 2011 | by Jonas
Acer updated their TimelineX series of notebooks. These are “near netbooks,” that offer a lot more performance in a larger package. Brad over at Liliputing is disappointed that Acer now has 13″, 14″ and 15″ models, but seems to have lost the 11.6″ one along the way. As the owner of an 1830T, which is [...]
Continue reading...Chromebook
11. May 2011 | by Jonas
At the second day of the Google I/O conference, their newest product was debuted, along with their hardware partners Acer and Samsung. While it is early to say, it is most certainly a glimpse into a new model of computing. The idea here is that these devices will run Google’s Chrome browser as their operating system. [...]
Continue reading...Acer ZGB Chrome Netbook
27. April 2011 | by Jonas
What a difference a day makes, as just one day after Acer is cutting netbook production, now there are rumors of an upcoming product. It has been no secret that Google will allow companies to make netbooks with the Chrome OS, and they were likely coming sometime over the Summer or early Fall. Now there [...]
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HP TouchPad 4G
14. August 2011 | by Jonas
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