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News.blog: Acer favours Linux for mini laptops

News Acer vice president of marketing Gianpiero Morbello said the Taiwanese Acer officially unveiled its entry into the low-cost mini laptop market, the Aspire One, on Tuesday. Plus, as Acer points out, Linux has a quicker boot time and can extend the...

Tags: linux, market, laptops, develop

5 June 2008, 9:56

Acer top for laptops in Europe

News Acer is the laptop brand most in demand in the UK and Europe, relegating perennial favourites HP and Dell into second and third place. Sales of Acer laptops rose by 39 per cent quarter-on-quarter, according to the latest analyst statistics.

4 January 2007, 9:04

News.blog: Acer reels in E-Ten deal

News Continuing its spending spree, Acer announced on Monday it plans to acquire E-Ten for $290m (£145m). With this purchase, Acer, also based in Taiwan, appears laser-focused on becoming a major mobile player.

Tags: laptops, phones, pocket pc, segment

4 March 2008, 9:22

Acer slams Vista price hikes

News Microsoft is hiking up the price of its software as it prepares to launch Vista, according to one of the leading PC manufacturers, Acer. According to Jim Wong, senior corporate vice president of the Taiwan-based company, the issue is simply that...

30 October 2006, 11:10

Return of the $100 PC

News Acer, Dell, HP and others have tried to tout $499 laptops loaded with Windows, a previously unseen price point. HP and Acer are trying to gain market share. Acer, meanwhile, is trying to build on its successes in the past two years that have made...

11 October 2005, 10:53

Microsoft dreams up low-cost mini-tablet PC

News Gates also plans to show off a next-generation tablet PC from Acer. Unlike other notebooks that swivel to switch between notebook and slate designs, the new Acer model features a keyboard that slides down.

27 April 2005, 12:56

News.blog: Mac running Windows XP performance tested

News The Acer TravelMate 8200 was also running Windows XP Pro and was equipped with a 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo (T2500) processor; 2GB of slightly slower DDR2 SDRAM (533MHz); an ATI Mobility Radeon x1600 graphics card; and a slightly larger 120GB hard...

10 April 2006, 11:16

Intel's faster Wi-Fi ahead of schedule

News The Next-Gen Wireless-N product will appear in laptops from companies such as Acer, Gateway and Toshiba by the end of this month, Dave Hofer, director of wireless marketing for the company, said on Tuesday.

24 January 2007, 10:41

New AMD chips target mobile gamers

News Other laptop manufacturers that favour AMD, such as Acer, are expected to follow suit. AMD hopes that videogame enthusiasts will soon be snatching up laptops built on two new mobile processors that the chipmaker introduced on Monday.

23 August 2005, 10:07

Europe bests North America as largest PC market

News One of the big beneficiaries of stronger European sales was Acer, which has targeted European laptop consumers. In 2005, Acer grew shipments by 58.1 per cent and saw its market share grow from 3.4 per cent to 4.6 per cent.

19 January 2006, 11:20

HP to launch HSDPA laptop

News HP has joined Acer, Lenovo and Dell in offering laptops with embedded Vodafone super-3G technology. The manufacturer announced the move on Thursday, saying the first laptop to include embedded HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access) -- or, as...

10 July 2006, 10:40

PC World refutes Linux warranty void

News Tuesday, a reader of the technology news Web site Slashdot claimed to have taken a recently bought Acer laptop back to PC World to have the hinge repaired, only to be told that the installation of Gentoo Linux on the machine had voided the warranty.

13 September 2007, 10:02

Apple told it must get greener

News We are witnessing a global shift towards greener PCs with Acer and Lenovo -- two major producers of PCs -- committing to eliminate the use of the most hazardous chemicals from their product range," said Iza Kruszewska, Greenpeace International's...

7 December 2006, 10:02

News.blog: Ubuntu readying version for mini laptops

News Manufacturers such as Acer and others are planning devices. A version of the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system is coming later this year for mobile Internet devices and mini laptops. Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, said on Monday...

Tags: devices, atom, remix, ubuntu

4 June 2008, 10:19

PC Gaming Alliance formed to fight consoles

News Said member companies include PC hardware manufacturers Acer/Gateway, Dell/Alienware, Intel and AMD. With consoles now increasingly intruding on such hallowed ground as the real-time strategy genre, many PC gamers have adopted something of a siege...

Tags: board, developers, companies, market

21 February 2008, 9:00