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...HappyPress 4 A3, £435 RM The AI bicycle You may associate Acer with budget laptops, but it has a subsidiary, Xplova, dedicated to cycling computers, and some of that tech has found its way into this ebike...
...At the top of the price range, one of my favourites is Acer’s superthin Aspire S7, which costs $1,300 (£1,000), because of its superb screen and spectacularly thin design....
...In 2011 Quanta Computer, then the world’s largest laptop contract manufacturer, started making servers directly for Facebook and Google, circumventing branded server vendors such as HP to do business with...
...The M5 is heavier than the Aspire S3, Acer’s original thin-and-light Ultrabook, but I like its solidity and gamer-ruggedness....
...Of this first crop, I found Acer’s Aspire S3 a little too flimsy in its construction, while the Asus Zenbook and Lenovo’s IdeaPad U300s were a little pricey at over $1,000....
...Acer, one of the world’s three biggest personal computer vendors, is going through a torrid time....
...Other “crossover” machines, such as Acer’s $600 Aspire Timeline 1810T, which has a relatively powerful dual-core Intel Ultra-Low Voltage processor and a bright 11-inch screen, come with Windows 7....
...Laptops and netbooks Laptops, particularly stylish “thin-and-light” machines, such as Dell’s Adamo ($, ), Apple’s ultra-thin MacBook Air ($, ), and Acer’s Aspire Timeline ($$$, ), which has excellent...
...Perhaps most interestingly, the Acer Aspire One A0751h and other machines like it successfully bridge the gap between old-style small-screen netbooks and low-end laptops, providing consumers and business...
...One last, important consideration is power: if you plan to use a netbook away from a power source for an extended period, pick one – like the Acer Aspire One and MSI Wind – with a six-cell battery, which...
...My favourite Windows XP-based netbooks include Hewlett-Packard’s HP Mini 1000, Acer’s Aspire One, Lenovo’s IdeaPad s10 and the latest models from Asus, such as the EeePC 901, from the Taiwan company that...
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