Blogs Posts in Acer category; 66 blog posts

Acer to launch affordable Windows 8 touchscreen laptop

The Taiwanese manufacturer may have taken heed of the surprising success of Asus’ Vivobook family which combined touch capabilities with Windows 8. According to a report published by Digitimes’ Aaron Lee and Joseph Tsai, the d [...]

Posted On : May, 03 2013 | Comments : 0

Acer Aspire S7 13-inch review

Key Features: Glass-fronted 11.6-in 1920 x 1080 IPS display with 10-point touch; Glass lid, metal unibody frame, plastic underside; Up to Core i7, 4GB of RAM, and 128GB SSD; EL-backlit keyboard. Acer Aspire S7 13-inch – Intro, [...]

Posted On : Mar, 03 2013 | Comments : 0

Acer Aspire V5-571P review

Windows 8 is full of touch-based gestures and big, colourful live tiles just begging to be poked. New laptops are therefore going to need to boast touch-enabled displays if they want to be taken seriously. Acer's V5-571P offers j [...]

Posted On : Feb, 16 2013 | Comments : 0

Acer Aspire S7 13-inch review

Intro Given how we weren’t all that impressed by Acer’s previous flagship Ultrabook, the Aspire S5, we were looking forward to its new ‘thinnest 13-inch Ultrabook in the world’ champ, the Acer Aspire S7 391, with [...]

Posted On : Feb, 02 2013 | Comments : 0

Acer C7 Chromebook review: the rebirth of the $199 laptop?

Chrome OS is in the midst of a sort of existential crisis. Google's web-based OS was originally used on full-fledged, full-powered and full-priced laptops, but its niche now seems to be cheaper, smaller computers. But even in that wor [...]

Posted On : Jan, 12 2013 | Comments : 0

Acer C7 Chromebook review: flawed, but affordable

The Acer C7 Chromebook is a cheap laptop. Given that – look at it – it’s clearly a laptop. And, when you further note the £199.99/US$199.99 (around AU$191) price tag, it’s obviously cheap. But this is a Chrom [...]

Posted On : Dec, 25 2012 | Comments : 0

Acer Iconia W510 Review

The jury is still out on the best combination of design and internal components for Windows 8 hardware, and with the Iconia W510, Acer is adding yet another variable to the mix. This 1.2-pound tablet-notebook hybrid features an Intel Atom [...]

Posted On : Dec, 22 2012 | Comments : 0

Acer Aspire V5-571 review

Acer's Aspire laptops often offer a lot for not a great deal of money. The last V-series laptop we saw, the Acer Aspire V3-571, won a Best Buy award earlier in the year, so we had high hopes for hopes for the new V5-571.The V5 makes a [...]

Posted On : Dec, 10 2012 | Comments : 0

Acer Aspire S7 Ultrabook

The recently launched Acer Aspire S7 Ultrabook is a monument to design, and it’s all the more stunning when you take into account some of the truly horrible designs Acer has put out into the market. It’s a part of the first wa [...]

Posted On : Nov, 29 2012 | Comments : 0

Acer Aspire S7 review (13-inch): great Ultrabook, a shame ab...

Back in June, when Acer first announced the Aspire S7 Series, two things seemed noteworthy: these were the company's first touchscreen Ultrabooks, for one, and they were easily its best-made. Whereas the earlier S3 and S5 skew a bit b [...]

Posted On : Nov, 26 2012 | Comments : 0

Acer C7 Chromebook review

The good: The Acer C7 Chromebook's very affordable price is its best asset, plus it's got plenty of ports and a large hard drive. It boots up quickly and is simple to use. The bad: Saddled with an ugly design, finicky touch p [...]

Posted On : Nov, 24 2012 | Comments : 0

Acer C7 Chromebook

While it cleans up on mobile, Google’s quiet invasion of the laptop market invasion continues. Today sees the launch of the Acer C7 Chromebook, a new 11.6-inch laptop running its Chrome OS operating system for a rock bottom price &n [...]

Posted On : Nov, 22 2012 | Comments : 0

Acer Iconia W510

As the world’s fourth-largest laptop and PC manufacturer (depending on which stats you look at), Acer wasn’t going to be left behind in the Windows 8 convertible tablet race. Competing with the 11.6-inch Asus Vivo Tab and Sams [...]

Posted On : Nov, 01 2012 | Comments : 0

Acer Reveals High-priced Touchscreen Laptops with Windows 8

The thin-and-light laptop market appears to be the new category of interest for major PC vendors. The new-found interest can be credited to Intel developing new processors that consume less energy while still providing adequate amounts of [...]