Of all the laptops available at the moment, the two categories that interest me most are ultraportables and full desktop replacements. Ultraportables can be incredibly useful for life on the move due to their small size and incredibly light weight. For regular laptops to be useful though for anything more than light use is unusual [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Win a Windows 7 Tablet, Microsoft Press Books + a secret gHacks bonus Prize!
I’m running a competition on my Facebook page at the moment to win a selection of Microsoft Press books and a fantastic Acer Iconia Tab W500 Windows 7 Tablet, which I can assure you is seriously quick! The competition runs for six weeks and has some fantastic prizes. Plus, if any winner says they’re from [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Acer Iconia Tab W500 Windows 7 Tablet Review
Despite the popularity of Apple’s iPad and the booming market for Android tablets, there are still plenty of Windows 7 tablets out there. The latest is Acer’s W500 hybrid tablet, a 10.1 inch tablet based on a 1GHz AMD C-50 processor, 2GB of DDR3 ram and a 32Gb SSD. It also comes (optionally) with a [...]
- Author: Melanie Gross
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Acer Announces Plans To Launch Ultrabook PC Model
Ranked as the no. 2 PC manufacturing company in the world, Acer Inc. has announced plans to produce an ultra book which will be a super light computer model. The plan is to launch this new product as early as the fourth quarter of 2011. This statement was made by the President of Acer Inc. [...]
The Snapdragon So Far: Big Phones
The Qualcomm Snapdragon seems to be on its way to becoming the Atom of the smartphone world. With a clock speed of 1GHz and a low-power ARM design, this chip is fast becoming the mainstay of big new smartphones that are big on everything. However, more processing power always means less battery life and the [...]
New All-In-One And Tablets From Acer
Ever since Asus brought out their Eee PC range, Acer has been right behind it in the race to bring out those new things. You might have noticed that Acer tends to follow up Asus’ announcements with extremely similar announcements of its own within close proximity of each announcement. Sure, other companies are bringing out [...]