You know the holiday season is just around the corner when the Black Friday ads start to leak onto the web. Black Friday, for the uninitiated is the day after Thanksgiving. It’s often one of the busiest shopping days of the year, and it got its name, because it’s about the time when many retail stores are finally in “the…

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[/caption] Just over a week after a Chinese web site posted some hands-on impressions of a pre-release version of Acer’s upcoming netbook loaded with the Google Android operating system, Gizmodo is reporting that Acer’s Android netbook will be available to the general public by November. The laptop will likely retail for around $300 to $350, which is about what Acer…

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[/caption] It’s never really fair to post a full review of a device before it’s been officially released because it’s hard to determine how many of the issues you have with the hardware and software are due to the pre-release nature of the product. With that in mind, the folks at Chinese web site ePrice got their hands on an…

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[/caption] HP, Acer, and pretty much every netbook maker on the planet are busy putting out new models in time for the summer. And that means tech journalists are busy reviewing them. Here are a few of the latest netbook reviews from around the web: Laptop Magazine reviews the HP Mini 110 As expected, the HP Mini 110 is both…

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Acer has been pumping out new mini-laptop models over the last few months at a pace that would have made Asus jealous last year. But some of the most intriguing new Acer Aspire One units werent’ available in the US… until now. The Acer Aspire One AOD250 has a 10.1 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, a 1.6GHz Intel Atom…

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