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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Acer is set to release a new version of the Acer Aspire One D250 soon with both Windows 7 and Google Android loaded up. You can choose between the operating systems at launch. And Acer has been busy sending out demo units to a handful of tech news sites (although someone at Acer apparently forgot to put me on the…

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Acer is preparing to unleash its first netbook running the Google Android operating system on the world before the end of the year. The netbook will be an Acer Aspire D250 laptop which will actually dual boot Google Android and Windows XP. Honestly, I’m not entirely sure there’s a huge demand for netbooks with both operating systems, since you’ll end…

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In case you haven’t looked at your calendar in a while, October 22nd is next week. I know, I was kind of shocked too, but there it is. And that means that Windows 7 will be available to the general public a week from Thursday. And along with the latest version of Windows we can expect a whole slew of…

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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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This is just a quick update to confirm that Verizon will begin selling the Gateway LT2016u netbook starting Sunday, October 4th. Earlier this week Engadget snagged a leaked document with all the details. But Verizon went and made things official today with a press release. The Gateway LT2016u is basically a rebranded Acer Aspire One D250. The laptop has a…

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[/caption] A few months ago Macles reported that Acer would be launching a version of the Aspire One 571 netbook with a high resolution 1280 x 720 pixel display. While I haven’t rally heard anything about that since, it looks like the Aspire One D250 is getting the HD screen treatment… at least in Norway. Norwegian retailer PC Support is…

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Gateway has introduced its latest netbook, the LT2000. And if the specs looks familiar, that’s because it bears a pretty striking resemblance to the Acer Aspire One D250. Gateway is, after all, a subsidiary of Acer. The Gateway LT2000 does have a few cosmetic differences. The touchpad button looks smaller, and the area by the screen hinges is designed a…

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Acer has been shipping several new models of Aspire One laptops across the globe for a few weeks. But the company finally got around to adding product pages for its latest mini-notebooks to its US web site this week. There’s now an official product page for the Acer Aspire One 751h, which is the first AspireOne to wear an 11.6…

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The Acer Aspire One D250 is the latest 10 inch netbook from Acer. It has a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU and 10.1 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, but fits into a smaller and lighter case than the Acer Aspire One D150. Joe Rybicki is a freelance writer who’s spent the last 13 years covering the video game and…

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Joe Rybicki is a freelance writer who’s spent the last 13 years covering the videogame and technology industries. He lives in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, and laughs at your commute. You can read more of his writing on various topics at joerybicki.com. In the summer of 2002, I moved from Chicago to San Francisco, in the process going from…

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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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