Acer Ferrari 1200 Announced

It looks like Acer will soon be launching a sequel to the 12.1″ high-end Acer Ferrari 1100. Like the 1100, the new Acer Ferrari 1200 is also AMD-powered, running on a dual-core AMD Turion X2 Ultra on AMD’s M780G platform. The Ferrari 1200 definitely falls … Read more

More on 10-inch Acer Aspire One, Linux, and SSD

On the heels of the brief hands-on that Akihabara News got of the upcoming 10-inch Acer Aspire One, ZDNet UK has obtained more information on the plans for the larger version of the 8.9″ Acer Aspire One. Acer has informed ZDNet UK that those interested … Read more

Fortune Magazine: Netbooks and Mobile Broadband

Back in December, AT&T and Radio Shack ran a promotion, offering the Acer Aspire One for $99 with a 3G AT&T DataConnect plan. We’ve seen other netbooks being priced incredibly low (or free) with mobile broadband contracts – it was mentioned in a recent review … Read more

Acer Aspire One 10.1″ (D150) Hands-On (Akihabara)

Akihabara News has published a hands-on look at the highly-anticipated 10.1″ Acer Aspire One. It’s still based on Intel’s Atom CPU (although a faster Atom will be available in the near future for the 10.1″ line) and is an upgrade of the original 8.9″ Acer … Read more

HP Mini 2140 and Windows 7 Beta

James Kendrick over at jkOnTheRun has had success in installing the Windows 7 public beta on the 10″ Intel Atom-based HP Mini 2140. The Mini 2140 is HP’s “business” or “professional” netbook (the HP Mini 1000 is their consumer product). Some have had an issue … Read more