So you need a laptop? Why not wait a few weeks and fly to Europe because Acer is about to dump 3 million cheap laptops on the European market in order to clear out overstock inventory. Rather than write off the inventory, Acer will probably sell it all at a steep discount, shipping from warehouses on the Continent and China over the next few months. What kind of deals can you expect? No one knows, but they’re trying to dump this stuff with a quickness. → Read More
When the iPad first launched last year, the word “tablet” became mainstream, and just about every electronics manufacturer out there has thrown out its version of a slate, one of the most quickly-adopted forms of technology to date. After Intel’s recent announcement of a new thinner, lighter type of notebook, called the ultrabook, it wouldn’t be surprising to see a similar reaction out of manufacturers. Acer, in particular, has already made a commitment to the ultrabook market, according to a statement made by its president Wednesday. → Read More
Back in February, we heard that Acer had plans to join Nokia on the WP7 platform and release a Windows Phone in September or October of this year. Luckily, September and/or October are just around the corner, and Acer has officially announced its first Windows Phone, dubbed the W4, during the Computex trade show in Taipei. The Acer smartphone will launch with the rest of the forthcoming “Mango” handsets, alongside the consumer release of the Mango update. → Read More
Gartner found that Apple is number five in European PC sales, just below Acer, Dell, and Asus. They sold 966,000 units in 1Q11, 292,000 less than the fourth place winner. But wait… there’s more! → Read More
I present to you Acer’s latest salvo against the coming of the post-PC era – the Acer Aspire One Happy 2. These things have a 10.1-inch display and run an Atom N570 processor with an Intel 3150 GPU and come in delicious candy colors (Banana Cream, Blueberry Shake, Papaya Milk, and Strawberry Yogurt) with mice to match. The will cost 299 euro in Europe and probably $300 when they hit here. → Read More
The march towards the generic Android tablet has begun. Most of the first Honeycomb tablets are indistinguishable from each other save one or two tiny differences. The Xoom hit the market first and still has arguably the best reviews while the G-Slate made a name for itself with 3D movies. Then there’s the Asus Transformer with its $150 optional keyboard dock and the Acer Iconia Tab with, well, a full size USB port. So now the buying points come down to the minutiae. Take the Xoom and the Iconia Tab. There’s a $150 difference in price with the only major hardware difference being the Xoom rocks 32GB of flash memory rather than 16GB. Still, I’ve found several, five to be exact, notable difference between the two. Spoiler: The Xoom isn’t worth the extra money if you don’t care about storage. → Read More
Recent bug reports within the Chromium testing community have turned up a couple new devices running Chrome OS. There’s the expected netbook from Acer, different from the ZGA we saw a while back, and a mystery device referred to as Seaboard that may or may not be a Chrome OS tablet. → Read More
After ousting previous tablet lead Gianfranco Lanci, Acer has named Jim Wong as head of their Touch Business Group (Touch BG) and PC Global Operations (PCGO). After a series of wildly unsuccessful tablet launches, including the inscrutable Iconia, Lanci resigned. Wong, who led Acer’s IT initiatives, has been with the company for a little over a decade. → Read More
Acer isn’t new to the 3D monitor game. The company released the GD235HZ way back in the wild days of 2010 and the firm’s latest monitors are a nice step down the evolutionary trail.
The HN274H stretches 27-inches from corner to corner and features a 100,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio. The $689 monitor also ships with a set of Nvidia 3D glasses and the monitor itself features a built-in IR emitter, eliminating the need for that pesky external box. Inputs includes one DVI-D, one VGA, and three HDMI 3D inputs, making this the first 27-inch monitor able to accept 3D signals over both DVI-D and HDMI. → Read More
Acer is currently in a quest to become more like Apple. A fool’s affair, in my humble opinion. That’s like some random animation company — Dreamworks works well here — trying to become Pixar. There can only be one Pixar and there can only be one Apple. (thankfully) But I’m just a lowly blogger. What do I know. So instead of staying the course and competing against HP, Dell, and all the other beige box makers in the consumer and enterprise market, they’re changing course and chasing Apple’s tail. And so they have a new logo. It’s the one pictured above that happens to look a lot like the previous generation — just a bit more Apple-ish if Apple used diarrhea green and a sloppy typeface. [Finance Times via Engadget] → Read More
Hi Doug! Our old buddy takes a look at the wacky dual screen Acer Iconia notebook. Conclusion? Just watch the two minute video. It’s after the break. [Pic source. That was a good day.] → Read More
Another day, another Honeycomb tablet. This one comes to us courtesy of Acer and looks nearly identical to its European cousin, the Acer-made Packard Bell Liberty Tab. The Iconia costs an acceptable $449.99 complete with 16GB memory and a microSD card reader. The 10.1-inch tablet runs Honeycomb out of the box and can display 1280×800 video thanks to a 1GHz Tegra 250 processor.
The Iconia is DLNA complaint and Acer is offering video docks, keyboards, and cases to round out the offering. It weighs 1.69 lbs and is .52 inches thick. It will not support Flash out of the box but, like the Xoom, it will support it in a further update.
You can pre-order the device on April 8 from Best Buy and it will ship on April 24. It will cost $449.99. → Read More
Say hello to the Packard Bell Liberty Tab. This 10.1-inch Nvidia Tegra 2 tablet packs Honeycomb and all the rest of goodies pretty much standard on next-gen Android tablets: dual cams, multi-touch screen, HDMI output, MicoSD card slot, and GPS. This model is Wi-Fi only and will be available in European retailers for an unannounced price this coming June. Ironicly the Liberty Tab won’t be sold in the States. Yeah, the US will likely get the same tablet just with Acer branding and styling. [via NotebookItalia] → Read More
Acer is realizing that the iPad isn’t going to topple itself. While the strategy of just making shells for other companies’ OSes and components has worked for Acer for years, that clearly isn’t an approach that had any effect at all on the iPad’s dominance of the tablet sector.
People will get tired of the closed iOS, said Acer, and just spontaneously choose a crappy Android 2.x tablet made by people who truly don’t care. Not so much! → Read More
If you use a PC for your media center, you might have had trouble locating a suitable control device for it, if you’re using the plain mouse-based interface. Sure, there are air mice and you can always use keyboard shortcuts, but those are kind of weak compared with this great device from Acer that just hit the FCC. → Read More
The Acer Aspire Timeline series has always been a card-carrying member of the ultra-portable club. The latest renews their member and ups it to gold status with top-tier specs. They’re done up in a style more similar to the company’s Ethos multimedia notebooks rather than the current TimelineX models. Fine with me. These are some fine looking notebooks. → Read More
Earlier today we received a tip to check out the blog Chrome OS Site for the details on the first official Chrome OS device. Obviously intrigued, I clicked through. There, I read about not a notebook or netbook running the OS, but rather a monitor! Specifically, the report has Acer supposedly unveiling this “monitor”, or perhaps all-in-one PC, called the DX241H, as the first actual Chrome OS device. Several other reports along these lines followed.
Weird, right? Well yes. Because from what we’re hearing, that’s just not true at all. → Read More
Earlier today we received a tip to check out the blog Chrome OS Site for the details on the first official Chrome OS device. Obviously intrigued, I clicked through. There, I read about not a notebook or netbook running the OS, but rather a monitor! Specifically, the report has Acer supposedly unveiling this “monitor”, or perhaps all-in-one PC, called the DX241H, as the first actual Chrome OS device. Several other reports along these lines followed.
Weird, right? Well yes. Because from what we’re hearing, that’s just not true at all. → Read More
