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Top ten must-have gadgets for students

News With a built-in camera and Bluetooth VoIP included, the lightweight Acer TravelMate 3012WTMi has all the features to keep you in touch with friends and family back home -- although as yet it's unable to write your lecture notes for you.

20 September 2006, 16:05

Intel unveils Mac Mini clone

News Taiwan-based AOpen, an affiliate of PC maker Acer Group, mostly serves as a contract manufacturer for other companies. Taking another crack at the living room, Intel is again showing off a concept PC that closely resembles Apple's Mac Mini.

1 June 2005, 10:00

Sony notebook boasts built-in mobile

News The company surged in 2002 on the strength of its notebook portfolio, but subsequently lost ground to competitors such as Acer. Hoping to revive its notebook fortunes, Sony on Tuesday unveiled a notebook that can connect to the Internet pretty much...

11 May 2005, 8:46

PC makers ready to ship Vista

News Gateway and Acer also plan to ship Vista systems this week. Microsoft may be glad to finally push Windows Vista out the door, but consider the PC industry the second happiest bunch. After years of waiting, PC companies presented the new operating...

30 January 2007, 10:23

News.blog: Classmate PC ready for EU retailers

News Hewlett-Packard, and second-largest laptop manufacturer Acer, both of whom are said to be readying their own low-cost, small form-factor laptops for sometime this year. More low-cost laptops are headed to a retailer near you.

Tags: intel, consumers, laptops, laptop

20 March 2008, 7:00

Intel touts suede laptops

News For example, the Acer Ferrari already offers Italian styling and Ferrari Formula One chic. 'Chic' was the word on Intel's lips this week as it showed off a new line of concept laptop PCs that the chipmaker believes brings a luxurious personal touch...

1 December 2005, 9:16

PC World touts 'green' Vista PC

News In a move to garner positive reviews, Microsoft sent hundreds of bloggers free copies of Windows Vista Ultimate; Microsoft did not send boxed copies, rather the software giant sent top-of-the-line Acer Ferrari notebooks with the operating system...

22 February 2007, 10:21

LCD TVs to overtake CRTs in 2009

News LG.Philips remains the world's biggest LCD TV manufacturer, followed by Samsung, China's Chi Mei and AU Optoelectronics, spun out of the Acer family. LCD TVs will be the most popular kind of TVs in the world by 2009, according to a new analyst...

6 June 2006, 8:34

PC sales leap past expectations

News Acer, meanwhile, continued at the torrid pace it has seen for more than a year. Acer is the fourth-largest PC maker in the world. As a result, IDC also boosted its annual forecast for shipment growth to 17.1 per cent, well over the 13.3 per cent...

18 October 2005, 9:34

Asus Eee PCs upgrade to Intel's Atom

News Many manufacturers, including HP and Acer, are planning to launch Atom-based competitors to the Eee later this year, but Shen claimed in the interview that Asus would be able to keep up through "innovation in the style and the electronics".

Tags: storage, machines, processor, intel

11 March 2008, 8:53

Fujitsu laptops get mobile broadband

News Fujitsu Siemens is not the first to go into partnership with an operator for built-in mobile broadband -- Dell, Acer, HP and Lenovo all produce laptops incorporating a Vodafone 3G/HSDPA datacard. Fujitsu Siemens has become the latest computer...

24 January 2007, 9:39

News.blog: Sony to u-turn on low-cost mini laptop?

News HP, Acer, and maybe even Dell, are joining the low-cost, lightweight computing fray. Sony is prepping a laptop based on Via's OpenBook reference design, PC World is reporting. At the WiMax Expo in Taipei, contract manufacturer Quanta Computer...

Tags: names, hard drive, laptop, laptops

3 June 2008, 10:02

Lenovo to launch Linux ThinkPad laptops

News Acer resellers are offering the Ubuntu and Linpus operating systems on its laptops, but only in Singapore. Lenovo is to offer a Linux operating system pre-installed on its ThinkPad laptops. ThinkPad T Series laptops will come pre-installed with...

7 August 2007, 9:31

Crying out for colourful laptops

News Apple, Sony, Acer, Alienware, Voodoo PC and others have introduced more stylish designs, but the standard products available from the largest Windows PC vendors tend to come in either black or grey. Fans of the University of Texas American football...

31 January 2006, 11:20

Fujitsu Siemens touts its 3G laptops

News Fujitsu Siemens is not the first to go into partnership with an operator such as Orange for built-in mobile broadband -- Dell, Acer, HP and Lenovo all produce laptops incorporating a Vodafone 3G/HSDPA datacard.

16 March 2007, 9:56