Acer has added a new member to its TravelMate notebook series with the announcement of the 6594. Aimed at business users, this powerful system is based on Intel’s new Core i7/i5 processor and comes equipped with a 15.6-inch LED-backlit display, an ATI Mobility Radeon HD5670 dedicated graphics card, an Intel QM57 Express Chipset, an 8GB RAM, a 1.3MP CrystalEye webcam, a DVD burner, WiFi, Bluetooth, 3G (optional) and a 9-cell battery. Pricing and availability are still unknown at the moment. [Acer]
If there’s one thing I know about longtime readers of this web site, it’s that you love to complain about large screen bezels. Sure, netbook bezels have come a long way since the Asus Eee PC 701 with its bezel that was almost larger than the screen itself. But when you’re looking at a tiny laptop, it’s kind of hard not to wonder how much larger the screen could be if there wasn’t all that plastic surrounding it.
Well, it looks like we may get to find out later this year. DigiTimes is reporting that Acer plans to launch a notebook later this year that’s all screen and no bezel. Instead of a traditional laptop lid, the cover of the Acer laptop would be printed right onto the back of the glass display panel.
DigiTimes says the laptop will also have a touchscreen keyboard, which will also be thinner and lighter than a traditional keyboard. Overall, the concept sounds a lot like the MSI dual screen netbook that I saw at CES — only without the bezel or lid.
The design will help keep the laptop super thin and light — and possibly rather fragile. I’d hate to drop this thing on the floor.
Acer has introduced their latest multimedia netbook at CeBIT 2010. Known as the Aspire One 752, this mini laptop is packed with an 11.6-inch 1366 x 768 HD LED backlit display, an Intel Celeron 743 ULV processor, an integrated Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics card, up to 4GB RAM, a 320GB hard drive, a built-in webcam, 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, an HDMI port, Gigabit Ethernet, a Dolby-optimised audio system and a 5-hour battery. The Acer Aspire One 752 will hit UK shelves in May for unannounced price yet. [Pocket-lint]
Acer has debuted their first convertible tablet PC namely the Aspire 1820PT. This model sports an 11.6-inch display at 1,366 x 768 resolution, an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, up to 8GB RAM, a 320GB hard drive, Microsoft Windows 7, WiFi connectivity, HDMI output, Gigabit Ethernet port and an optical audio port. The Acer Aspire 1820PT retails for 599 Euros ($817). [Engadget]
Acer has introduced a new 11.6 inch laptop with a 1366 x 768 pixel display, Celeron 743 ULV processor, GMA 4500MHD graphics, and up to 4GB of RAM. If that sounds like the Acer Aspire Timeline 1410 which is already available, that’s because the new laptop is virtually identical to that model. But it has a new name: Acer Aspire One 752.
I’m guessing the new name is Acer’s attempt to associate the Aspire One 752 with the company’s budget line of netbooks rather than its higher end thin and light laptops.
The Acer Aspire One 752 will have a 320GB hard drive, HDMI output, WiFi, Bluetooth, and a 5 hour battery. And unlike the 1410, the new model will apparently have optional 3G mobile broadband connectivity.
The laptop weighs 3.1 pounds and measures less than 0.9 inches thick. It will be available in black, white, blue and red when it hits the streets in May. No word on pricing.
Acer, Asus, Lenovo, and Zotac are among the first companies to announce products sporting the just-announced next-generation NVIDIA ION graphics platform. We already knew about the Acer Aspire One 532G 10 inch netbook which was announced at Mobile World Congress last month. But here are a few more products that will come with next-generation ION graphics.
Asus is introducing an updated version of the Eee PC 1201N, called the Eee PC 1201PN, which is shown above. It will also be available in silver. You can see another photo in the gallery below.
The company also has a new all-in-one PC and a new nettop in the works.
The last time we heard from Digitimes, it said that Acer would bring a netbook to market based on Google’s Chrome OS during the second half of the year, which lines up well with Google’s initial statement. Now the site is reporting that Acer may be moving up its launch to mid-year for a sales boost and to fend off the likes of ASUS, HP, and Samsung. According to Digitimes, the company expects to sell 1 million “Chromebooks” during the first year.
If you’re not familiar with Chrome OS (check out our top 10 things you need to know here), the goal of the OS is to boot almost instantly, be more secure and faster than Windows, and deliver applications through the Web. We were sort of lukewarm on Chrome when we tried it for the first time, but it was far from fully baked. Will Acer’s first Chome netbook be a hit, or will it be a repeat of the underwhelming Android-powered Aspire One D250? We can’t wait to find out.
I’m pretty certain that eBook readers are about to take off big time over the next year or two. I’m less certain that hardware-based eBook readers like the Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, and Sony eBook Readers are going to be runaway success stories. Instead, I see Amazon, B&N, and other companies releasing eBook applications that can run on desktop, laptop, and tablet computers as well as smartphones running mobile operating systems.
Amazon has already released versions of its Kindle eBook reader for the iPhone, BlackBerry, and PC. And I’m pretty sure the company would be perfectly happy if customers started buying books on those platforms in large numbers and stopped buying Kindle hardware. And ultimately, I think that’s the most likely scenario, because why spend hundreds of dollars on a device that only reads eBooks when you may already have a phone or tablet that can do the job nearly as well?
So I’m not surprised to see a report today that PC maker Acer has decided to drop its plan to build a dedicated eBook reader. Dozens of companies had dedicated eBook readers on display at CES in early January, but I don’t expect very many of these devices to make it to market given the relatively low consumer demand.
Don’t get me wrong. There are some advantages to devices like the Kindle. They offer a higher contrast reading experience that feels more like paper — and have battery life that’s measured in days or weeks rather than hours. But despite what your parents told you, staring at a digital screen all day isn’t going to make you go blind (as long as you look away occasionally to reduce eye strain), and there are some advantages to reading text on an LCD display. You can read in bed in the dark, display full color pictures, and avoid the slow screen refresh times that you have with e-Ink displays.
When Google announces it was working on an operating system for netbooks and other devices, the company said netbooks with Chrome OS would start shipping in late 2010. But it looks like Acer may be fast-tracking its first Chrome OS netbook for a mid-2010 launch.
We already knew that Acer was working on a machine with Google’s operating system. Now Digitimes reports that it could ship by the middle of the year. It’s not clear whether this means that Google plans to push up its launch date for Chrome OS or if Acer plans to release a machine running beta software.
This isn’t Acer’s first foray into a Googlecentric netbook. The company also offers a mini-laptop that dual boots Google’s Android operating system and Windows 7. But Android is an OS designed for smartphones (and increasingly for low power tablets), while Chrome is specifically designed for devices with larger screens and faster processors.
If you can’t wait for Acer and other netbook makers to start preloading machines with Chrome OS, you can download pre-release builds of Chromium OS today. Chromium is the open source, beta version of Chrome OS. It’s still a work in progress and under heavy development. But it already supports a pretty wide range of netbook hardware.
I’ll admit: there have been far more tablets at Mobile World Congress thanВ netbooks. But I have seen one. As we told you earlier this week, Acer is showing off the Aspire One 532g, which will fully launch in MarchВ as the first netbook withВ Nvidia Ion 2 inside. While I didn’t get to test the netbook’s Graphics chips are responsible for processing all images sent to your computer?s display. Learn Morediscrete graphics– or verify its claims to 10-hour battery life– I did come away with a good feel forВ its design and ergonomics. (Spoiler: they ain’t perfect.)
While the press photo we saw earlier this week showed a deep red netbook, the one I saw today was navy, suggesting it might be available in multiple colors. As you can imagine, the glossy lid and palm rest pick up fingerprints pretty easily. The high hinge and matte black keyboard might give the netbook a dated look, but I think the electric blue touch button, which coordinates with the lid, keeps it stylish.
At first glance, the keyboard looks like it has a tradtional layout, but if you look closely you can see the keys are, technically, separate, island-style. The keys have a shallow pitch, and don’t make much noise when you type. They have a slightly textured finish, that made our fingers feel grounded as we typed. The arrow and CTRL keys are typically squished in the lower right-hand corner, but otherwise, the keyboard feels spacious, and extends from one end of the chassis to the other with little extra space on either side.
The trackpad and touch button are where the 532g’s design begins to falter. The touchpad is on the small side, for one, and has a texture that’s uncomfortably bumpy. (On the plus side, it has a scroll strip.) Meanwhile, the touch button is too narrow. Not to mention, we always prefer discrete buttons, as on the Toshiba NB305. At least this touch bar is easy to press, unlike touch bars on other notebooks we’ve tested.
The 532g’s ports include 2 USB ports, HDMI and VGA output, an Ethernet jack, a memory card reader (I counted support for five formats), and the port for the AC adapter. All the ports are on the two sides; none are on the front or the back.
Spec-wise, the 532g will be the first netbook with the second generation of Nvidia’s Ion graphics platform. It runs Intel’s Pinetrail platform, an Atom N450 processor, and has a 250GB The storage device that holds your OS, programs, and data. Learn Morehard drive.
Stay tuned for more details in March and, eventually, a full review.
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Acer has introduced a new 11.6 inch laptop with a 1366 x 768 pixel display, Celeron 743 ULV processor, GMA 4500MHD graphics, and up to 4GB of RAM. If that sounds like the 
Acer, Asus, Lenovo, and Zotac are among the first companies to announce products sporting the just-announced 
I’m pretty certain that eBook readers are about to take off big time over the next year or two. I’m less certain that hardware-based eBook readers like the Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, and Sony eBook Readers are going to be runaway success stories. Instead, I see Amazon, B&N, and other companies releasing eBook applications that can run on desktop, laptop, and tablet computers as well as smartphones running mobile operating systems.
When Google announces it was working on an operating system for netbooks and other devices, the company said netbooks with Chrome OS would start shipping in late 2010. But it looks like Acer may be fast-tracking its first Chrome OS netbook for a mid-2010 launch.
