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Acer Computex 2012 Windows 8 device round-up

, Jun 4th 2012 Discuss [4]

This week over in Taiwan at Computex, the folks at Acer have brought on three waves of fury for the upcoming release of Windows 8 later this year: All-in-Ones, Tablets, and touchscreen Ultrabooks. We’ve got hands-on with each of the big guns we’ve seen in the past 24 hours, but before you get there, have a peek at the announcement posts for each of these beasts, starting with the massive Acer U Series. Both the Acer Aspire 5600U and the Acer Aspire 7600U will have large-screen Windows 8 at your fingertips with 23 and 27-inch touchscreens on a swivel.

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Acer Iconia W700 and W510 hands-on

, Jun 4th 2012 Discuss [2]

Acer‘s pair of touchscreen Windows 8 tablets, the Iconia W510 and W700, try out two different routes for finger-friendliness, and we grabbed some hands-on time to see how successful they’ve been. The Iconia W700 is the larger of the two, an 11.6-inch full HD 1920 x 1080 slate with a desktop docking station into which the tablet securely clicks.

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Acer Aspire S7 touchscreen ultrabook hands-on

, Jun 4th 2012 Discuss [0]

Acer's new touchscreen ultrabooks weren't exactly a surprise at Computex 2012 - after all, Intel and Microsoft have been pushing OEMs to consider touch and Windows 8 best-buddies - but we've still been impressed by the new Aspire S7 models. Coming in 11.6- and 13.3-inch form factors, the slimline ultraportables have everything you'd expect from a regular ultrabook, but throw in 180-degree fold-back screens and multitouch support. Read The Full Story

Acer Aspire 7600U and 5600U AIOs hands-on

, Jun 4th 2012 Discuss [3]

How much multitouch is too much? Acer thinks you and more than five of your friends will want to get physical with the new Aspire 7600U, one of the company's two U Series all-in-ones for Computex 2012 along with the Aspire 5600U, and we stopped by for some hands-on playtime with the angular PCs. Read The Full Story

Acer U Series All-In-Ones make Windows 8 a real possibility

, Jun 4th 2012 Discuss [7]

This week in Taiwan at Computex we're seeing Acer take Windows 8 to all avenues, with two of these examples living under the "U Series" with all-in-one style. First you've got the Acer Aspire 7600U with a 27-inch display, then you've got the Acer Aspire 5600U with a 23-inch display, the larger of the two supporting with undeniably awesome 64-point simultanious touch for Windows 8 greatness. Find an application that can make use of that many touches at once and we commend you! Read The Full Story

Acer Iconia W700 and W510 Windows 8 tablets bring the OS in style

, Jun 4th 2012 Discuss [4]

This week at Computex, Acer has been bringing the Windows 8 fury right out of the gate with two lovely new tablets, one of them the 10.1-inch W510, the other the 11.6-inch W700. Both of these devices are Iconia branded Acer machines with cradle and/or keyboard packaged along with, acting here at first as desktop replacement units. We'll have to see how well they perform before we make any judgements, especially given how much we still need our notebooks already in this tablet-heavy modern mobile world we live in - will these devices change the way we compute? Read The Full Story

Acer Aspire S7 Ultrabooks with touchscreens and Windows 8 revealed

, Jun 4th 2012 Discuss [3]

The wave of touchscreen-loving Windows 8 notebooks has begun at Computex with Acer's own Aspire S7 Ultrabook series. Here we've got both a 13.3-inch model and an 11.6-inch model with full 180-degree fold-back screens for your touch-loving pleasure! These models both take the Acer Aspire S3 and bump up the specifications as well as the build, bringing 12.5mm-thick unibody aluminum along for the ride. Read The Full Story

HTC Tizen device in the works for 2012

, May 21st 2012 Discuss [13]

There's a new bit of Samsung / Intel software in the house called Tizen made for the mobile market, and this week we're hearing that HTC is one of several hot off the blocks to release a smartphone with the system embedded. This news comes after Samsung showed off a very early version of some hardware running the first Tizen for a developer conference that took place the same week as this spring's CTIA 2012. With both Samsung and HTC on lock for a device with this software onboard, we're looking for what'll very possibly be a large release - relatively speaking, of course. Read The Full Story

Acer announces Aspire M5 Ultrabooks

, May 15th 2012 Discuss [0]

Acer has today announced its new range of Ultrabooks, the Aspire M5 series. Acer will offer both 14 and 15-inch models featuring Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processors and discrete NVIDIA graphics. The company has gone back to the drawing board in terms of design, offering a display with a thinner bezel as well as a metallic silver finish for the chassis. Read The Full Story

Acer introduces G6 LED monitors

, May 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

Acer has today introduced a new line of desktop monitors, the G6 series. All of the monitors feature TN panels, are LED backlit, and have low response times of between 2 and 5ms to eliminate blurring during gaming and fast moving video. Acer is introducing six LED monitors in different screen sizes, starting at 19-inches and maxing out at 27-inches. Read The Full Story

Acer Aspire One 725 netbook packs AMD Fusion

, May 7th 2012 Discuss [0]

You might not necessarily want some of those upcoming Ivy Bridge mobile processors. Netbooks are still fine for light browsing and whatnot, right? Acer has just the thing for you in that case. The company has added a new netbook to its line, the Aspire One 725, which makes use of AMD’s low-power Fusion chipset, or more specifically, the dual-core C-60 processor. Read The Full Story

Acer Ivy Bridge lineup brings all shapes and prices

, Apr 23rd 2012 Discuss [2]

The folks at Acer are wasting no time at all pushing out several desktop model computers with Intel's newly announced 3rd Generation Intel Core Processors otherwise known as Ivy Bridge. Included in this lineup are several additions to Acer's Predator AG3620 desktop line as well as Gateway DX4860-UR14P. You're about to see power contained in no less than the most wild looking factory-made setups in the history of desktop - believe it! Read The Full Story
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