Tag Archive for 'acer'


Friday, Dec 14th 2007 by James Allan Brady

Just when I thought all the news of these tech industry CEO’s being fired, or just quitting was through, here comes another from Gateway, the computer manufacturer. Mr. Ed Coleman’s decision was largely due to Acer, another computer manufacturer, buying out Gateway as of October.
Before Gateway was purchased, it had its own line of PCs, [...]

Thursday, Nov 1st 2007 by James Allan Brady

Just when you thought one day of death and mayhem on the Friday after Thanksgiving was too much, Wal-Mart goes and decides to do it every Friday in November with a few deals each time that are likely to incite rage on par with the T-Virus. One of the deals for this Friday is that [...]

Wednesday, Oct 10th 2007 by Chris Scott Barr

If you’re still undecided about which side to take in the format wars, you’re not alone. Many people still aren’t sure who will come out the victor and thus don’t want to be stuck with obsolete hardware. That’s why some manufacturers aren’t making you pick sides. Take this new PC from Acer.
The new M5630 [...]

Monday, Aug 27th 2007 by Satsuki Then

Acer has agreed to acquire the computer maker Gateway and to pay around $710 million in cash for the acquisition. Both Gateway’s and Acer’s board of directors have approved the acquisition and the transaction is expected to be closed by December 2007.

Thursday, Aug 2nd 2007 by Chris Scott Barr

It seems like every day someone releases a new laptop. Well today we have two new offerings from Acer. One is aimed at the enthusiast crowd, while the other targets budget-conscious customers.


Tuesday, Jul 31st 2007 by Chris Scott Barr

Linux has always been pretty easy to get your hands on. You just pick out your favorite distro, download it and install. Piece of cake, right? Until recently, it has been much more difficult to get Linux preinstalled on a machine, unless it was a server. Dell has already begun offering systems that include Ubuntu [...]

Friday, May 4th 2007 by Chris Scott Barr

Acer just announced their new line of Gemstone notebooks, and we’ve got pictures of their new design.

More pics after the jump

Thursday, Apr 26th 2007 by Chris Scott Barr

Sony isn’t doing to well in the battery business, they’ve already had millions of their notebook batteries recalled, and they’re not through yet.
Acer has just announced a voluntary recall of 27,000 lithium ion laptop batteries. The batteries run the risk of short-circuiting and bursting into flames. That’s usually bad for something that one tends to [...]

Friday, Aug 25th 2006 by Vincent Nguyen

The new Acer MP-340 PMP is smaller and much more pocket friendly (weighs only 148 grams and measuring 95×65×20.6mm) than the MP-500. The screen size is smaller measuring in at 1.8-inch, 160×128 TFT display, supports H2.64 format video. It’s also got a 20GB HDD with file support for WMA, MP3, WMA DRM compatibility, [...]

Friday, Aug 18th 2006 by Vincent Nguyen

The Ferrari 5000 has everything you can want in a high-end laptop. You’ll enjoy a lightning fast 2GHz Turion 64 X2 mobile dual core processor. Watching movies on the road or day to day work will be more enjoyable on the WSXGA+ widescreen LCD, 160GB HDD, 2G DDR2 RAM, 802.b/g wireless, Dual Layer [...]


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