Acer is a Taiwanese manufacturer that offers a wide range of laptops of different prices and performance, but they are mostly known for their low cost range. Aspire One is one of the most famous and most popular model.

Acer of course does not only have cheap laptops but they also have a professional line called TravelMate, which most likely will meet all requirements of picky businessmen. Acer also produces the carbon fiber Ferrari-models which has been successful for years.

Acer Aspire One was first release in 2008 but it still one of the most sold netbooks on the market. It is cheap, small, light weight, and has decent performance. Let’s face it, the netbooks are not performance monsters but if you consider all the parameters you shouldn’t be disappointed. However, don’t use a netbook to encode video or similar tasks, unless you are very patient.

Acer Inc.

Acer as a company has been around since the 70th but they haven’t really been designing their own products until 2000. All of Acer’s products are produced by factories in mainland China. Acer is not only a producer, they are also a distributor and they have their own computer retail chain in Taiwan. Acer has been a profitable company in recent years, mostly thanks to their popular cheap range of laptops.

Other products

Acer not only makes laptops, they also have a wide range of other products such as smart phones, tablets, monitors and projectors.

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Toshiba Jumps on Sonoma bandwagon with new M45 and Tecra A3

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Toshiba Heads to Hangzhou?

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By Henrik Stigell

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Review of the Fujitsu Lifebook P7120

The P7120 is one of the smallest laptops to sport a removeable media drive. Add to that a fingerprint reader, great battery life, and Fujitsu’s indigenous ECO button feature, and you can see why this Lifebook is turning heads on the tech catwalk. Read More

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Lifebook P1500 – Mini Tablet PC from Fujitsu

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Are you like me, getting impatient waiting for the boffins of this world, to provide fuel cells to power our laptops? Luckily we have notebook makers like Fujitsu, delivering longer laptop battery life, by pushing lithium-ion technology to it’s limit. Read More

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Here’s a sleek offering from Fujitsu, targeted at those working in the challenging field of healthcare. With an estimated 6 hours of battery life, beautiful touchscreen display, and ultraportable weight (3.3 pounds), this Lifebook certainly efficient. Just imagine a nurse competently operating one of these Fujitsu laptops before your triple heart bypass, it would certainly put your restless mind at ease…. – “….Dr, shall we save this patient’s data on the Lifebook for the autopsy?….” Read More

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Only a few short months ago, we reported that Fujitsu had launched a lead free 100GB mobile hard drive – The MHV2100AH. Now the computer telecommunications giant has gone one better, indeed they’ve managed to pull a gargantuan 120GB plum out of the pie. Read More

The Fujitsu N3500 Lifebook

The LifeBook N3500 is a compact entertainment center allowing access to television, a DVD player, and CD player without even having to boot up the laptop! Other handy features of this Fujitsu notebook include the ability to change channels or pause live TV (with remote control) and to record shows onto hard drive or DVD. Read More

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Are you looking for a new laptop that is great in function but also healthy for the environment? With warnings of global warming ever more prevalent in today’s media, you are not alone in your quest for eco friendly computing products including notebooks. Read More

MHV2100AH Mobile Hard Drive from Fujitsu

Looks like another gap between us laptop devotees and our desktop using cousins is about to be bridged. Fujitsu are on the verge of bringing out a 100GB Mobile drive destined for the next batch of top end laptops manufactured by the computing giant. But as any diplomatic lady will tell you, size doesn’t matter, it’s what you do with it that counts. Read More

The Fujitsu S6231 – A Lifebook With Panache

Cnet once stated that Fujitsu notebooks were: “Laptops that James Bond could love.” High praise indeed, but understandable because Fujitsu make sleek laptop computers with noodles of panache. Take a look at the LifeBook S6231 for example. This model (in the thin and light notebook class) comes in a magnesium alloy casing which gives it a solid “here to stay” feel. It also comes fitted with an Intel Pentium M Processor, 13.3 inch Crystal View XGA display, 512 MB of SDRAM memory, and a 60 GB hard drive. Read More

By Henrik Stigell

Samsung Does the Deed, Joins Lenovo With Ion Powered Netbook

At the risk of losing “official” netbook status, Samsung is set to produce the world’s next Ion-powered, HD-displaying netbook. Read More

New Samsung NC20 and 3G NC10 Netbooks Pre-orderable

The newly released Samsung NC20 has made it to British markets and is available for pre-order online. Color is important though… you’ll have to wait about twice as long for a black model than a white model. And the black just looks so cool, too. Read More

Samsung Makes Smallest DRAM Ever

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Samsung To Start Mass Producing 256GB SSD

The latest and greatest entry into the 256GB SSD market, the new Samsung SSDs are faster and (hopefully) cheaper than their competitors. Read More

News For Travelers – The Samsung X460 Is Here

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The X50 is a sleek and silver desktop replacement from Samsung. The X50 packs a 15.4 widescreen into its compact 2.41 kg chassis, but more impressive than that is the screen’s resolution. Samsung geared the screen with 1,680 x 1,050 resolution, which offers more workspace than a 19-inch LCD-based PC monitor. Read More

Speed Up Boot Time: Samsung’s MH80 HybridHDD

Samsung claim their new hybrid hard drive boasts 50 percent faster read-write speeds and improved battery life. Read More

32GB NAND Flash Drive in Samsung Q30Laptop

Back in september 2005, Todd Gold reported that Samsung had developed a 16 GB NAND Flash memory chip, that would enable the production of a flash memory card with up to 32 GB capacity. Fast forward 8 months and we learn that Samsung have unveiled the world’s first laptops equipped with NAND Flash-based hard drives. The capacity may only be 32 GB, however these new drives operate in complete silence, and offer other advantages over traditional hard drives including quicker booting and increased battery life. Read More

Samsung Flash Memory Card with 32 GBCapacity

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Samsung M70 with 19 inch Screen

The Samsung M70 will make an illustrious debut at IFA Berlin, one of the world’s most popular computer and electronics trade fairs. The M70 sports a 19 inch screen, which can be detached – transforming it from a desktop replacement to a desktop PC. Read More

I want my DMB TV! – Samsung Laptops with Digital Multimedia Broadcasting Capability

Samsung DMB laptops are the first to combine mobile Internet, broadcasting and computing services all in one unit. Users in South Korea will be able to record any scenes they’d like from their favorite tv shows, while viewing the digital broadcasts. Read More

Posted 6 days, 5 hours ago by Daniel Shain in Microsoft Laptops

The Windows 7 beta was intially released weeks ago to great fanfare. Benchmarking tests have been coming out with regularity. Now however, reports are surfacing that Microsoft is sending out emails in search of beta testers running a computer with netbook-esque specifications. Could a less expensive, dumbed down 7 be next?

Requests have apparently been sent out to testers in Chile, Egypt, Lebanon, Brazil, Jordan and India. Microsoft is looking for machines that fit the following specs as well:

• 1GHz processor
• 1GB system memory
• 16GB disk space
• Support for DX9
• DVD-R/W drive
• Access to the internet

A note received firsthand by a tester read as follows: “You are invited to join a beta trial for a specialized version of Windows 7. Your geographic location may make you a good candidate for this providing feedback on this specialized version of Windows 7. You will still have access to the Windows 7 Ultimate SKU, in addition you will be able to test this additional SKU.”

Microsoft is officially saying the new SKU will not be limited to netbooks, but we guess they’re thinking of it like Intel is thinking of Atom, which technically isn’t limited to netbooks either. Either way, looks like MS might be splitting up 7 owners into the new “specialized version” owners and “ultimate” owners. Oh well… it’ll still be an improvement over Vista as long as they keep the number of versions below 4.

Posted ago by Daniel Shain by Daniel Shain in Microsoft Laptops

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As you have no doubt noticed already, we have switched the default color scheme on Laptopical to white (again). If you don’t feel that this is the Laptopical you know and love – feel free to switch back to the old theme (top right corner).

In response to requests from several of our readers we’re using the white color scheme as default from now on to improve readability for readers with impaired vision (and just about everyone, really). If you liked the darker theme better, you can easily switch back to it using the link in the top-right corner of any page.

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Though Toshiba hasn’t given an official reason for this, speculation assumes that it due to two reasons:

Adapting the Blu-Ray drives would be supporting the competitor, Sony, who won the battle against Toshiba over HD-DVD.

Also, the Blu-Ray Disc Association requires a $30 for each laptop that is equipped with a BD drive.

For now, Toshiba is banking on you to prefer downloading your movies and saving them to their fine SSDs. Unfortunately for them, you may not feel the same.

Written by Blair Mathis on Tuesday, September 30, 2008