Acer's C7 Chromebook is the cheapest way to get in on Google's cloud-OS party. But, it still ships a 320GB 5,400RPM drive. Truth be told, such a large amount of local storage is counter to the whole idea of Chrome OS -- not to mention that the slow...
AMD has been willing to tease its 2013 ultra-mobile APU (accelerated processing unit) strategy through PCs like the Acer Aspire V5, but today it's spilling the beans in earnest. The headliner for many is the company's just-shipping Elite Mobility...
I recently switched from using a Windows PCs and Android phones to all-Apple products, all the time. My new iPhone 5 and MacBook Pro are definitely really cool. But when I was a PC/Android user (with an Acer laptop and phones by HTC and Samsung),...
May 20, 2013: GigaOM — Tech News, Analysis and Trends
Folks looking for a Windows 8 companion can find it in Acer’s Iconia W3, an 8.1-inch tablet running Microsoft’s operating system. The Iconia W3, spotted on Acer’s Finland site by SlashGear, doesn’t appear to have a confirmed...
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.
The announcement of the Acer Aspire R7 was the best example of the company's assertion that it was moving from computers designed with touch to computers designed...
Info about the Iconia W3 Windows 8 tablet has already slipped out a few times, and now this 8.1-incher is live on Acer's Finnish website. While there's no mention of price or availability, the specifications list matches what's already been leaked....
Now may be a horrible time to buy a laptop, but sometimes you can't wait a few months for a new computer. If you need a new laptop and you need it now, you could do a lot worse than the 11-inch Acer Aspire S7 currently on sale at the Microsoft...
'Intel and Microsoft will save us' Global notebook sales may be in the crapper, but according to the chairman of the company manufacturing notebooks for Acer, Dell, Toshiba, HP, and others, the bluebird of sales-revenue happiness will sing again in...
Remember double-digit profit rises, HP, Dell... Acer? Asustek Computer Inc is surfing the slabbie sales swell better than most of its peers, if calendar Q1 financials are a decent metric.…
The Acer Aspire S7 was introduced by the company nearly a year ago in June 2012 as one of the company’s first touchscreen ultrabooks, and by far one of their best to date as it included a Full HD display, is made of a mixture of aluminum, white...
Acer's senior VP Scott Lin recently confirmed that a new 10-inch Iconia A3 tablet will arrive this summer and was quick to include it in some very ambitious sales plans. The device (not pictured) has yet to be priced or specced (or even seen), but...
Is it an all-in-one? Is it a notebook? Is it a tablet? Taiwanese hardware giant Acer has made a bold bid to claw back some of the market share it’s been hemorraghing over the past few months, taking the wraps off the Aspire R7 – a...
Acer is clearly and closely aligned with Windows, but there's one part of Microsoft's strategy it's not buying into just yet. At an event on Friday in New York — in the middle of a sea of newly-announced Windows products — company...
Acer is clearly and closely aligned with Windows, but there's one part of Microsoft's strategy it's not buying into just yet. At an event on Friday in New York — in the middle of a sea of newly-announced Windows products — company...
[Lee Davison] acquired an Acer laptop that didn’t have a display anymore. He had enough parts on hand to add in an LCD panel and give it a CCFL backlight. But when he started looking for an inverter to drive the backlight he couldn’t...
Acer dropped a design first at its event in New York City this morning: a laptop-tablet hybrid with a display that can "float" above the keyboard. The Acer Aspire R7 is certainly unlike any notebook we've seen.
Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the Acer Iconia A1 and why it’s a device you should consider. Then we talk about the Motorola X Phone, which was recently spotted on AT&T in some tests, and is most likely another ugly...
With decent specs, a killer price, and a solid name behind it, Google’s Nexus 7 is the budget Android tablet to beat. We’ve seen a whole lot of competitors arrive to take a swing at the Nexus 7, but so far none have managed to make an...
Earlier today, Acer officially unveiled its newest line of gadgets, including the new Acer Iconia A1, a mini tablet with an extremely competitive price. We compared it to two industry leaders to see how it stacks up against the competition.
