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Acer Aspire One D260 netbook Arrives in Summer

June 7, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Acer has officially unveiled their latest netbook, the Acer Aspire One D260, boasting up to 8 hours running time, Intel Atom N455 1.66GHz processor latest (together with the N450 as well) and up to 2 GB of RAM. The D260 features a 10.1-inch 1024 x 600 200-nit display, GMA 3150 graphics, and optional quad 3G/UMTS. Unfortunately there is no trace of the alleged Android OS option, we heard back in April, only Windows 7

There is also WiFi b / g / n, Bluetooth 3.0 + HS and 10/100 Ethernet, along with three USB 2.0 ports, VGA, audio in / out and a multiformat card reader. Storage is either a 160GB or 250GB hard drive, and there are two batteries: a 3-cell pack good for up to 4 h or a 6-cell for up to 8 hours.

So, nothing particularly dramatic in terms of the specifications then, the actual sentence will have to wait until we know the price. Unfortunately, Acer do not say to the Aspire One D260 drops to 1 July 2010.

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Acer Unveils “Amazing” Macbook-like Aspire Ethos Laptop

April 2, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Acer has a new member of its popular Aspire laptop series with the name of Ethos, whose main attraction is a secondary touch screen that can be used as a touchpad for a variety of multimedia functions such as sound control announced, music shuffling between tracks etc.

The company said in a statement that “The disk is now combined with the touchpad console, providing a set of commands, all from a single key and a completely new approach to control entertainment” led.

Although there are not marketed as a multimedia powerhouse, the extremely good performance as an ethos. It comes with the Core or Core i7 i5 and packs up to 16GB of DDR3 memory (yes 16GB).

The rest of the data is so impressive you can be up to 1.28TB worth of space on the hard drive, an ATI 5850 or 5650 graphics engine with 1GB of GDDR5 memory, the choice of a 15.6-inch or 18.4-inch display, both at full HD a very small frame and a Blu-ray combo drive.

The Taiwanese manufacturer also promotes the full Dolby surround the ethos with the cheaper version, relying on three speakers perform the trick and provide the superior one to add a further three to a 5.1 model.
But it is not cheap. The entry level model with a Core i5 Processor, 4 GB RAM and a 320GB hard drive will cost a whopping £ 1,100 and the 16GB model is completely made-up probably cost about £ 4,000 or more.

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Acer Aspire Ethos 8943G & 5943G HD notebooks now on sale

March 25, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Acer has outed a new series of notebooks, the Acer Aspire series ethos that promise with chic design, multimedia performance. Two models were first announced, the ethos Acer Aspire 8943G and Aspire 5943G ethos, with a choice of Intel Core i7 processors and i5, 18-inch 1920 x 1080 and 15.6-inch display and 1366 x 768 or ATI Mobility Radeon HD5000 graphics.

There’s also Dolby Home Theater surround sound support with 5.1 output, and indeed the ethos 5943G manages to fit in a full five speakers on its own. The memory is up to 1.28TB (combination of two 640GB hard drives) and there is a choice of DVD or Blu-ray optical drives.

Connectivity includes WiFi, Ethernet and Bluetooth 2.1, eSATA, USB, FireWire, HDMI and VGA, and there is a fingerprint reader and webcam. No word on prices and availability of the Italian today launched, but we advise them are premium machines.

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