Archive for the 'Hardware' Category

Twenty-eight Windows 7 Netbooks are launching October 22, including the Acer Aspire One. Amazon is compiling a list of these 28, so obviously they’ll be selling them on the first day also. Keep in mind, the version of Windows that it will be running is Windows 7 Starter. We can only hope it won’t be [...]

As of now, news has it that Acer is considering phasing out its highly-successful 8.9-inch Aspire One netbook. Where does that leave us? With just the 10.1-inch model that the company is supposed to be releasing in February 2009.  The news is that the Aspire One could be phased out during in the second quarter [...]

To customize a classic saying, “no computer is an island”.  We always seem to need some other devices or peripheral to get the most out of a laptop (or even desktop) purchase: routers, modems, printers, mice, hubs, etc.  And even though your Acer laptop comes with most everything you need to be functional (except maybe [...]