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Acer Aspire One D255 netbook with Google Android unboxed – Video

Acer recently launched a dual boot version of the Acer Aspire One D255 netbook which runs both Windows and Google Android. And Sascha from Netbook News.de managed to pick one up in Taiwan recently. You can check out his unboxing and first look video after the break. The netbook runs about $289 in Taiwain and […]

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Acer introduces dual boot Android/Windows netbook in Taiwan

  As expected, Acer has started showing off a dual boot netbook called the Acer Aspire One AOD255. It can run both Google Android and Windows 7, and comes with software called the Acer Configuration manager which you can use to determine which operating system will load. Like other recent netbooks from Acer, the machine […]

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Intel porting Android to x86 for netbooks and slates

Google Android is generally aimed at mobile devices with ARM-based processors. But we’ve seen several efforts to bring the software to x86 processors, including the independent Android-x86 project as well as an Acer netbook which dual boots Windows and Google Android. Now it looks like we could soon see more Android devices with x86 processors. […]

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Acer Aspire One D260 to dual boot Google Android, Windows 7

Acer is reportedly working on another netbook that dual boots Windows and Google Android. Electric Pig reports that the new model will be dubbed the Acer Aspire One D260, which seems to imply that it will be a modest update from the dual-boot D250 model released last year. There’s no information on the processor or […]

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Acer Aspire D250 with Google Android coming this quarter

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 […]

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Acer netbook with Google Android coming next month?

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 […]