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Acer TravelMate Timeline 1820p
Blog I’ve spent a couple of days with a European generic sample of Acer’s upcoming TravelMate Timeline 1820p, and I have to say I’m quite keen to get my hands on a final UK build. The notebook sports an 11.6 inch display and, unlike the versions of the...
[December 15, 2009, 11:41]
Acer batteries could burst into flame
Blog As if Dell, Lenovo, Apple and Toshiba having to recall its batteries wasn't bad enough, now Acer has done the same. Anyone who bought an Acer TravelMate notebook between May 2004 and November 2006 ought to read this.
[April 26, 2007, 11:51]
Acer Aspire One D250 with Android
Blog But getting Android into a netbook is new, and I was interested to see how Acer’s Aspire One D250 with Android coped. So, Acer has got the dual boot business right. Dual boot notebooks are nothing new.
[December 3, 2009, 14:58]
Windows 7 launches 23 October, Acer says. Sort of
Blog David Meyer has just phoned in a hot news tip moments ago from a meeting he's been having with Acer. The vice-president for Europe, Massimo D'Angelo, was getting excited about AIO, the company's forthcoming All In One PC, with all sorts of things...
[April 30, 2009, 16:53]
Acer's smartphone quartet
Blog Acer has chosen this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to officially re-enter the smartphone world with no less than four models in a range it is calling its Tempo Smartphone series. ACER M900
[February 17, 2009, 14:24]
Acer Aspire One price drops
Blog Of the currently available netbooks (although more are on their way soon), the Acer Aspire One is, IMHO, the coolest - it looks more idiosyncratic than its rather more mini-me brethren, plus it has that clever dual-SD-card thing going on.
[August 20, 2008, 11:17]
Acer One Runs Vista! But Not For Long.
Blog After that I pointed my browser (on another machine) to acer europe driver downloads and there they all were. I've been doing some work for a reseller of late and one of the items that I came across was a 4 gb Acer one net book with an install of...
[December 4, 2008, 7:18]
Acer Perspire One
Blog For my money, all 199 smackeroonies of it, the Acer pips the Asus on build quality, looks, stylishness and keyboard. I had ordered an Asus Eee from Amazon way way back in July, to jump on the overcrowded netbook bandwagon, and to be able to...
[September 11, 2008, 9:02]
Ubuntu on the Acer Aspire One - provisos
Blog with Ubuntu linux on the Acer One A110AB Netbook. I'm sure it won't be long before these issues are addressed, particularly considering the amount of interest the Acer Aspire One is receiving. Just to lay the record straight, I am not in the pay of...
[September 19, 2008, 14:53]
Hands-on with the Acer Aspire One 751 netbook
Blog Acer very kindly sent me their Aspire One 751 netbook so I could have a hands-on try. Same screen, a more chiclet-style keyboard, a smoother trackpad and a beefier chipset, please, Acer. Here are my thoughts.
[July 14, 2009, 16:19]
What do people think of Acer laptops?
Blog Can't resist posting my own experience of an Acer Aspire that's now in the dustbin. Acer I will NEVER buy another piece of your rubbish again. If Acer now want to flog "cheap" so-called laptops can I suggest they take a course in basic electronics...
[June 6, 2008, 9:12]
Xubuntu on the Acer Aspire One
Blog I was a bit bored with the sluggish performance of Ubuntu Netbook Remix on my small but perfectly formed Aspire One, so following on from oiio's personal experience, I've installed Xubuntu. It was a bit tricky installing Xubuntu in the first...
[January 20, 2009, 16:11]
The quest for a Mexican netbook
Blog My last Acer Aspire One broke while I hamfistedly tried to upgrade its RAM, so I am forced to write longhand using a pen in a book with old school hand writing, and then to transcribe these scribbles via the medium of the internet.
[October 6, 2008, 8:52]
Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor Beta - does what it says on the tin
Blog Well, I’ve just installed Windows 7 on an Acer notebook and I have to tell you that it was a remarkably pain free process. So it works and probably took a couple of hours all in once I had removed various programs that Acer seems to think people...
[September 25, 2009, 6:40]
T-Mobile plans Boxing Day netbook push
Blog T-Mob was originally going to go with Acer, but stock problems forced them switch allegiances. I doubt Acer is too worried about that, though. It seems T-Mobile is set to enter the netbook fray, joining the embedded-3G tie-in game already being...
[December 24, 2008, 10:39]
Ion pleases the eye and kills off the netbook
Blog A couple more netbooks currently provide the same functionality, namely the Acer Ferrari One and HP Mini 311. It's not the first netbook/ultrathin with decent screen size and resolution that I've experienced — that would be Acer's decent 1810T...
[November 23, 2009, 12:05]
Asus and Microsoft Smacking Netbook Linux? And You're Surprised?
Blog So, what's Asus market-position difference between now and 18 months ago, when it, like Acer and any number of mid-tier PC makers were Microsoft's biggest boosters, shipping nothing but PCs running Windows?
[June 1, 2009, 8:53]
Fiddling with Ubuntu Netbook Remix
Blog I've had a few niggling problems with installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) on my Acer Aspire One -- namely, that Maximus is included by default and I've found it tricky to turn off. Maximus is a small app that maximises every new window that you...
[January 1, 2009, 19:09]
Lost Panel in XFCE
Blog As regular readers may know, I have recently installed Xubuntu onto my Acer Aspire One. On booting up a few days ago, my top panel had completely disappeared. Oops. Luckily, the internet in it's infinite dumb wisdom had the answer.
[February 4, 2009, 11:03]
Back on track
Blog Within an hour of arriving back in Blighty yesterday, I had located and reserved an Acer Aspire One (hereafter affectionately acronymed as the AA1), now only £180 from Currys. Now all I have to do is reinstall Ubuntu, the AA1 tweaks & fixes, my...
[November 14, 2008, 7:15]
