There’s been a resurgence of small, low-cost laptops in the past few years. The term “netbook” may have died around the turn of the decade, but low-cost Chromebooks continue to grow in popularity, and in recent years Acer, Asus, HP, and Lenovo have all introduced small Windows notebooks with price tags in the $200 to […]
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Acer Aspire One Cloudbook with Windows now available for $190
Acer’s first “Cloudbook” series laptop is now available for purchase. The Cloudbook family of products are low-cost Windows laptops with the sorts of specs (and price tags) we’ve come to associated with laptops running Google Chrome OS in recent years. But these computer ship with Windows 10 software. Some models will be priced as low […]
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Acer Aspire One 756 11.6″ notebook now available for $330 and up
The Acer Aspire One 756 is a cheap portable laptop with an 11.6 inch display and a starting price of just $330. While Acer has been offering netbooks with Intel Atom processors under the Aspire name for years, the Acer Aspire One 756 is a little different. Instead of an Atom chip, it’s available with […]
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Acer Aspire One 725 11.6 inch notebook hits Italy
Acer is rolling out a minor update to last year’s Aspire One 722 notebook. While that model featured and 11.6 inch display and AMD C-60 processor the new Acer Aspire One 725 features… the same screen size and processor. There are a few improvements in the new model including 4GB of DDR3 memory instead of […]
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Acer Aspire One V5 11.6 inch notebook coming soon
Acer has a new thin and light laptop in the works that’s more netbook than ultrabook. While the company introduced a new line of premium ultrabooks at CeBIT in Germany today, Acer is also introducing the new V5 Series and V3 Series mainstream notebooks, including a new ultraportable model. The Aspire Aspire V3 Series laptops will come […]
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Acer Aspire One D270 Cedar Trail netbook hits the FCC
The Acer Aspire One D270 is one of the first 10 inch netbooks to feature a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N2600 dual core processor. It’s expected to sell soon for $280 and up, but it’s not available for purchase yet. But now it looks like launch day is approaching. The Aspire One D270 passed through […]
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Acer Aspire One D270 Cedar Trail netbook up for pre-order
The Acer Aspire One D270 is one of the first 10 inch netbooks to feature an Intel Atom N2600 Cedar Trail processor. It’s already available for purchase in Germany and Taiwan, and the folks at Netbook News have posted an unboxing video. The netbook should hit the US soon too. Adorama is already taking pre-orders […]
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Acer Aspire One D270 netbook with Cedar Trail chip coming soon
We already knew that Acer would be one of the first companies to bring a netbook with an Intel Atom Cedar Trail processor to market in 2012. Now it looks like a few retailers have jumped the gun and posted product pages in advance of an actual product announcement. Notebook Italia spotted a few European […]
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Acer Aspire One 522, 722 notebooks get a spec bump
This weekend we spotted a new Asus Eee PC netbook configured with a shiny new 1.33 GHz AMD C-60 dual core processor. Now it looks like Acer is giving its low cost Aspire One notebooks the same makeover. The Acer Aspire One 522 10 inch netbook and Aspire One 722 11.6 inch model originally shipped […]
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Acer Aspire One AOD257 hits the scene for $250
Acer seems determined to see how much it can undercut its competitors netbook prices. The company has consistently cranked out netbook after netbook for $300 or less over the past few years. But now Acer might have outdone itself with the launch of the Aspire One AOD257. It has a list price of $270, but […]