One of the trends on the notebook market are ultra-thin or ultrabook laptops with full-size 15.6-inch displays. An example is the Acer Aspire M5-581T-6405 ultrabook with a 0.8 thin aluminum chassis and weight of 5.1 pounds, the Intel Core i5-3337U dual-core processor, 6GB of RAM, and a 500GB hard drive supplemented by a 20GB solid [...]
One of the good touchscreen laptop choices to consider is the Acer Aspire M5-481PT-6644 with a 14″ inch display, an Intel Core i5 processor, Windows 8, and a price of around $700. The Aspire M5-481PT-6644 is basically an ultrabook. It is a little bit bulkier than other ultrabooks, but provides a fairly big 14″ diagonal [...]
The Acer Aspire V5-571-6605 is another representative of the 15.6-inch ultra-thin notebook category. Featuring the Intel Core i3-2367M, the V5-571-6605 is powered by the CPU frequently used in ultrabooks. The chip is from the last year’s Intel “Sandy Bridge” (2nd Gen) lineup, with the Intel HD 3000 integrated graphics. The CPU is considerably slower than [...]
In the future, more and more laptops will have touchscreen displays. If you want to have one now, it’s good to know that the Acer Aspire V5-571P-6648 is one of the first full-size 15.6-inch laptops with touch input capability and touch-optimized Windows 8 OS.
For $400, you can normally get a full-size 15.6″ laptop with an Intel Pentium processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB hard drive. Acer’s Gateway NV57H103U offers a little bit more computing power for the same amount, thanks to the Intel Core i3-2310M CPU at 2.1GHz.
If you have stumbled upon the Acer Aspire E1 laptop and want to know how it generally compares to the other available notebooks on the market in terms of features and specifications, you should read this article. Also, here we have a specs comparison table of the E1 models. First of all, the 1.56″ Aspire [...]
The new Acer Aspire One AO756-2623 small laptop model is an inexpensive 11.6-inch cross-over between a netbook and a full-power ultraportable. The AO756-2623 packs the Intel Celeron 877 ultra-low voltage processor, with performance ranking between the Intel Atom processors and ultraportable- and ultrabook-use Core-series ULV chips. For example, in PassMark CPU benchmark, the dual-core “Sandy [...]
Acer has announced the Aspitre Timeline Ultra M3, the industry’s first 15″ ultrabook. Acer has managed to pack a DVD burner and the Nvidia Geforce GT 640M video card into the Aspire Ultra M3′s 20mm thin chassis.
Staples is the first retailer in the US to offer the Acer Iconia Tab A200, a budget-class Android tablet with a 10.1-inch display, the Nvidia Tegra 2 platform, and Wi-Fi-only Internet connectivity. Besides the dual-core Tegra chip and a 1280 x 800 multi-touch screen, the offered Iconia Tab A200-10g16u model features 16GB of internal storage, [...]
Intel Atom Cedar Trail platform for netbooks is already well known, and we knew that Acer will release their AOD270 Aspires with the new Intel chips. But now we have names of the first models for the US market, their pricing, and active pre-order buttons on Amazon.
The Acer Iconia Tab A500-08S08u 10.1-inch Android Honeycomb tablet is selling this Sunday and Cyber Monday for $229.99. With that price, the Acer Iconia Tab A500-08S08u is cheaper than the Asus Transformer TF101-X1, which was selling for $250 on Black Friday. But the A500 has a smaller amount of storage – 8GB versus 16GB, and [...]
The Acer Aspire AS7750-UMACKK3J from the Aspire series is the only Intel-based laptop model listed in Walmart’s Black Friday 2011 catalog. Featuring a 17.3-inch display and an Intel Core i5 processor, the Acer AS7750-UMACKK3J is not a low-end system. When you add to these specs 4GB of RAM, a spacious 640GB hard disk, and a [...]
Retailers and computer makers in the U.S. have started announcing their Cyber Monday laptop deals for 2011, offering great savings on notebooks, netbooks, and tablets this year.
The Intel Celeron B800, a recently released low-end laptop processor, has arrived on the market.
Amazon today started taking pre-orders for the Acer Aspire S3-951-6646 13.3-inch Ultrabook. With a $900 price tag, the Aspire S3-951-6646 is the cheapest ultrabook we know, because other start at around $1,000.