Acer Ferrari 5000 Pictures
Today Acer announced the Ferrari 5000 and 1000 notebooks. The Ferrari 1000 is a 12.1" screen notebook featuring the Turion X2 dual-core 64-bit processor while the Ferrari 5000 is a 15.4-inch desktop replacement style notebook with the Turion X2.
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3.6.2006 Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista
Acer president Gianfranco Lanci became the first major PC manufacturer to openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system in the Financial Times Deutschland on Monday
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24.7.2007 HP and Acer Start Netbook Price War
Hewlett-Packard and Acer have lowered prices of their netbooks as the back-to-school sales season kicks into gear in the U.S., offering bargains for users.
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26.8.2008 Used Microsoft Software for Sale: Cheap!
When Microsoft software reseller
Disclic began selling secondhand Microsoft software last week, a number of Microsoft watchers proclaimed "They can't do that, can they?"
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15.11.2005 Windows Home Server goes on Sale in the US
Windows Home Server is finally available in the US! You can pick it up at
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11.10.2007 NEC Confirms Packard Bell Sale
NEC confirmed that it was exiting the European PC market, announcing it had reached a deal to sell its Netherlands-based Packard Bell subsidiary to Chinese entrepreneur Lap Shun "John" Hui. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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16.10.2006 First 512GB SSD offered for sale: $1500
SSDs have always been for those with a lot of cash and a lot of demand for speed, and after this new product introduction, things are still the same. SSDs, or solid state drives, are popular because they're fast and reliable.
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10.4.2009 Napster hangs "for sale" sign in front window
Napster is evaluating the possibility of a sale by hiring of an investment bank. Citing "recent third party interest," the company has asked UBS Investment Bank to explore strategic partnerships or an outright sale of the company.
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20.9.2006 The Problem With Netbooks
The market for netbooks is an artificial construct, a subset of notebooks that isn't a sustainably distinct category.
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5.3.2009 Origami: Flattened by Netbooks?
Are netbooks the fulfillment of Microsoft's Origami vision or the end of it?
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29.9.2008 Windows Is Not on 96% of Netbooks
I was going to let this one go, but too many blogs or news sites are picking up Friday's Microsoft post about Windows share on netbooks.
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8.4.2009 Thumbing Windows 7 onto Netbooks
Microsoft is considering offering Windows 7 on a thumb drive to allow Netbook owners to more easily upgrade their machines, a source tells CNET News.
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28.6.2009 Video of Windows 7 Installed on Netbooks
Following Microsoft's release of its Windows 7 Beta operating system, a number of PC users were keen on finding out just how fast the new OS developed by the Redmond, Washington-based software giant was.
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15.1.2009 Microsoft touts Windows 7 for Netbooks
During a recent question and answer session with Brad Brooks, corporate vice president of Windows Consumer Product Marketing, he gave his take on Windows 7 on netbooks, or mini-notebook PC's.
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3.2.2009 Windows 7 and netbooks: Separating fact from speculation
Is Microsoft going to take a revenue hit when it releases Windows 7 because of the changing mix of PCs in the market? That’s the expectation of many company watchers, though I have to admit I’m not quite so sure. Here’s why.
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12.11.2008 AT&T announces $50 netbooks with bundled broadband
AT&T has announced that Atlanta and Philadelphia area residents can get their hands on netbooks for just $49.99 with the purchase of AT&T “Internet at Home and On the Go” broadband services.
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1.4.2009 Microsoft confirms no Windows 7 restrictions on netbooks
Microsoft announced that they have removed the netbook restrictions that previously prevented OEM and ODM from installing any version of Windows 7 on their netbook.
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28.9.2009 Microsoft may offer Windows 7 on thumb drive for netbooks
Microsoft has shown Windows 7 running on netbooks even since it first introduced the operating system, however, helping consumers getting it on there may prove a bit tricky.
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27.6.2009 Ballmer confirms Windows 7 Starter restrictions for netbooks
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently confirmed that the company will limit Windows 7 Starter, the edition expected to end up on netbooks, to systems that sport small screens and low-powered processors.
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11.8.2009 Microsoft Offers Downloadable Upgrade Tool for Netbooks
Microsoft is finally catching up to do-it-yourself ‘ers by offering a downloadable version of Windows 7 for netbooks that can be put onto and installed from a USB drive.
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26.10.2009 Microsoft eases hard drive capacity restriction for netbooks
Microsoft has officially eased the restriction of the standard specification for netbooks using the Windows XP operation system by increasing the allowable hard drive capacity from 80GB to 160GB, according to sources in the channel.
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3.9.2008TechSpot: Acer Timeline 14" 4810T Notebook Review
With so many different factors to consider when purchasing a laptop, finding the right one can be a daunting task. Portability and battery life are
the current trends, along with value of course, which has brought about the recent surge of netbooks. However as I've said before -- and I still
stand by the statement -- netbooks are great for simple tasks, but lack the power to be more than a supplement to a real notebook or desktop system.
Today we will be looking at the Acer Timeline 4810T notebook, a 14-inch ultra-portable that aims to bridge the gap between underpowered netbooks and
bulky notebooks, while retaining the battery longevity found in the latest generation of netbooks.
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10.11.2009Acer to make first-ever Android netbooks
Acer at Computex today
said it would be the first to
produce netbooks using Google's Android platform. Company IT product president Jim Wong expects the systems to appear in the summer and that the
Linux-based systems will still use Intel Atom processors. He didn't provide prices, though the Android netbooks should be less expensive than Windows
versions as Google doesn't charge for licenses where Microsoft asks for $15 for each copy of Windows XP.
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02.06.2009HP Seeks to Block Acer PC Sales in US
Perhaps sensing an oncoming
attack from the world's new
#4 PC manufacturer, Acer, HP
reached deep into its patent
portfolio yesterday and filed
a lawsuit accusing Acer of
utilizing HP technologies. The
suit seeks unspecified
monetary damages, but more
importantly, it requests that
a judge block the sale of Acer
computers utilizing those
technologies...
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28.03.2007Netbook Round-up: Lenovo, Acer, Asus and Smooth Creations
It can't be argued that 2008 was the year of the netbook. Asus is credited with officially bringing the first netbook to market last year with
their Eee PC, but as many first adopters will tell you, companies rarely "get it right" on their first at bat and the Eee PC was no different. A
big second wave of netbooks arrived in mid-2008 and as expected, improvements were made all around. These netbooks offered larger screens capable of
higher resolutions, better storage mediums (either SSD or traditional hard drives), and the option to have Windows XP pre-installed. Today we will
be taking a look at four popular netbooks from four different manufacturers: Lenovo, Acer, Smooth Creations and Asus.
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22.12.2008Dell unlikely to be purchasing Acer in their buying spree
Dell's been on a bit of a buying spree recently; according to the head honcho, Michael Dell, they have a 'portfolio of acquisitions' that
they're looking at to help boost earnings, but according to Bloomberg, this is unlikely to include the company Acer. As you may be aware, Acer is
the third largest maker of personal computers, so it would certainly be a valuable purchase, but Brian Gladden (Chief Financial Officer for Dell) says
that, "It would be very low on our list of opportunities." It's expected that Acer may surpass Dell in shipments, but Gladden brushed it off by
stating, "That doesn't bother me at all. Selling netbooks that have zero margin, I'm not excited about.
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17.07.2009Acer bets big on Linux
Acer has stated that it will be pushing Linux aggressively on its laptops and netbooks. The company is already heavily promoting Linux for its low
cost ultra-portable netbook range out later this year, but senior staff have said that Acer will also push Linux on its laptops.
Acer has
already started selling Linux in its Media PC business but this should now spread, according to Gianpiero Morbello, vice president of marketing and
brand at Acer. "We have shifted towards Linux because of Microsoft," he said. "Microsoft has a lot of power and it is going to be difficult, but we
will be working hard to develop the Linux market."
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04.06.2008Gateway Acquisition Gives Acer More to Fight HP With
Setting up more guns on its side in its all out brawl against global #1 PC seller Hewlett-Packard, global #3 Acer - now with Gateway under its belt -
filed amendments to its countersuit on Tuesday, alleging HP infringed on patents held by Acer. It's a serious battle, as Acer fights to prevent a
federal judge from imposing an injunction against the importation of Acer PCs from Taiwan into the US...
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01.11.2007HP and Acer Start Netbook Price War
Hewlett-Packard and Acer have lowered prices of their netbooks as the back-to-school sales season kicks into gear in the U.S., offering bargains for
users. Acer slashed prices on its Aspire one netbooks on Friday to as low as US$329 for one version, while HP revealed new prices for Mini-Notes
on its Web site.
Price-cutting by the two big PC vendors could prompt other netbook makers, such as Asustek Computer and Micro-Star
International to follow. Netbooks are mini-laptop PCs designed for mobility, and typically weighing less than 2 kilograms. Most of the components on
board, including the microprocessor, are less powerful than those of full-fledged laptops so batteries last longer. They're designed for Internet
surfing and work on spreadsheets or word processor documents, not for heavy duty gaming, video editing or other multimedia work.
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26.08.2008Notebook Sales Exceed Desktop Sales
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A Video Tour of the MSI Wind and Other Netbooks
UK mobile tech site Mobile Computer has posted a nice 10-minute video that
gives a tour of the MSI Wind, and shows it alongside the two other Intel Atom-powered netbooks, the Acer Aspire One and Asus Eee PC 901. The site also
has photos that show the three netbooks together to give a good idea of the differences in size. The MSI Wind goes on sale today in the UK (a week ahead of the
US) for £350 (around $700). Not cheap for a supposedly low-cost laptop, but the MSI Wind looks like the best of the bunch so far.
winbeta.org - 02.07.2008
Netbook prices approach affordability after Acer cuts
Although netbooks really only hit the market less than a year ago, the pint-sized notebooks seem to be showing signs already of commoditization,
though maybe with greater differentiation on the high end...
betanews.com - 26.08.2008
Acer eyes future desktop systems, including game machine
Over the next year, Taiwan-based notebook PC maker Acer will start to produce desktop units under the Acer brand...and a senior Acer official told
BetaNews yesterday that a PC-based game machine is one of the ideas being bandied about...
betanews.com - 13.03.2008
Acer installing Linux on notebooks, but not Ubuntu
Acer did not preinstall the
Ubuntu Linux distribution on a
batch of Aspire notebooks for
sale in Singapore, but instead
is installing a different
version of the open-source
operating system, local
dealers said.
Memory World (S) Ltd. is
selling an Aspire 5107Z
notebook with Ubuntu
installed. Priced at S$999
(US$660), it comes with a
1.73GHz Intel Core Duo
processor, a 15.4-inch screen,
1GB of DDR2 (double data rate
2) memory, an 80GB hard disk,
and a one-year international
warranty.
While Memory World's
offer has attracted attention
outside Singapore for the use
of Ubuntu on a notebook, Acer
did not ship these notebooks
with the Linux distribution
preinstalled, said Ignatius
Beh, a Memory World sales
executive.
"We actually installed it
ourselves," Beh said. Acer
shipped the notebooks to
Memory World with another
version of Linux installed, he
said. ..
winbeta.org - 01.08.2007
Netbooks chewing at Apple, Intel finances?
The rapid surge in popularity of netbooks is affecting the bottom line for Apple and its chipmaking partner Intel, ThinkEquity researcher Vijay Rakesh
claims in a recent study of the market. The analyst's checks with both Amazon and physical retail show Apple as
having to face increasing competition from Acer, ASUS, and MSI. Of the top ten portables at Amazon at the time of the report's creation, two Apple
MacBooks were the only systems not to fit into the new category of mini-notebooks, according to Rakesh.
winbeta.org - 24.09.2008
Yahoo Search to Power Acer
Systems
Yahoo said it had signed a
multi-year agreement with Acer
to develop a co-branded
toolbar and start page for all
Acer systems. In addition,
Yahoo would become the default
search engine on all shipped
PCs...
betanews.com - 14.09.2006
Acer launches new netbook, promises WiMAX
Call them sub-notebooks, netbooks, UMPCs, or what one clever Engadget poster deemed them: "Liliputers," the biggest hardware launches
at Computex in Taipei this week fall into the umbrella category of "smallest."..
betanews.com - 03.06.2008
Survey finds Netbooks to be secondary devices: surprised?
betanews.com - 30.01.2009
Ballmer: Yes on Windows 7 for netbooks, but maybe not a specific SKU
Did the Microsoft CEO really say what the financial press says he said about netbooks and Win7? Not really.
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betanews.com - 09.03.2009
Acer says that Windows 7 will be available October 23, 2009
According to Pocket Lint, Acer has confirmed that Windows 7 will be available on October 23 on their new all-in-one Z5600 PC. Acer has also confirmed
that any Vista based PC purchased 30 days prior will receive a free upgrade to Windows 7. While we still don't have an official release date
from Microsoft yet, and even though there has been an internal release date of January 30, 2010 set, rumors have been flying around saying that
Windows 7 may be released sometime later this year. With the public release of the release candidate right around the corner, and development towards
the RTM already on track, it's possible that Acer's release date could be true.
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neowin.net - 30.04.2009
Gateway's notebook lineup under Acer starts to gel
In the interest of keeping the individual identities of the whole family of Acer properties alive, Gateway has announced an expansion of its notebook
lines...
betanews.com - 12.04.2008
