It looks like Acer is preparing to launch its third Android tablet. The Acer Iconia Tab A200 made at stop at the Bluetooth SIG website on its way to reality. There’s no information about the tablet’s processor, operating system, or even size. All we really know at this point is that the device will be Bluetooth […]
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Ultrabooks off to a slow start due to high prices?
Intel envisions a day when so-called ultrabooks make up the lion’s share of the consumer notebook space. An ultrabook is basically a thin and light laptop which weighs less than 3 pounds and measures less than 0.8 inches thick. In Intel’s vision, they also tend to have premium components including solid state disks and the […]
Acer launches Aspire S3 Ultrabook for $899
The Acer Aspire S3-951 is the company’s first ultrabook. It’s an ultraportable laptop with a 13.3 inch display that weighs just under 3 pounds and measures less than 0.7 inches thick. It will go on sale in the US and Canada later this week for $899. Intel coined the word “ultrabook” this summer to describe […]
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 […]
Acer Aspire S3 ultrabook hits the FCC
The Acer Aspire S3 is a thin and light laptop due out this fall. It’s Acer’s first entry into the new “ultrabook” space which is defined by notebooks that weigh less than 3 pounds, measure less than 0.8 inches thick, have solid state disks, and the latest Intel processors. This week the Aspire S3 made […]
Hands on with the Acer A100 7 inch Honeycomb tablet
The Acer Iconia Tab A100 is the first 7 inch tablet running Google Android 3.2 Honeycomb to go on sale in the US. The little tablet launched last month, and it’s available for about $330. That price is a bit higher than what you’ll pay for upcoming budget tablets from Lenovo and ViewSonic, but at […]
Acer Iconia Tab A501 Android tablet coming to AT&T September 18th
AT&T will begin offering Acer’s 10 inch Android tablet to wireless customers on September 18th. You can buy the tablet outright for $480, or sign up for a 2-year AT&T service contract and walk away with the tablet for $330. The Acer Iconia Tab A501 features a 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor, […]
Gateway TP A60 Android tablet hits Canada
If the Gateway TP A60 tablet looks familiar, there’s a good reason for that. It’s basically the Acer Iconia Tab A500. The key difference? This one has a Gateway logo on it instead of an Acer logo. Gateway is a subsidiary of Acer, as is Packard Bell. For some reason the computer maker sometimes releases […]
Acer: Don’t expect an ARM-powered laptop until next year
Next year Microsoft plans to launch Windows 8, and it will be the first desktop operating system from the company to officially support ARM-based chips as well as x86 processors from Intel, AMD, and others. That could open the door to very low power laptops which offer excellent battery life at very low prices. But […]
Acer unveils the Aspire S3 ultrabook
As expected, Acer has introduced its first ultrabook: a thin and light laptop which promises long battery life and speedy performance. It’s called the Acer Aspire S3 and it will have a 13.3 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, an Intel Core i-series processor, a solid state disk, and a starting price of about 799 […]