Friday, May 22, 2009
Americans now have one more home server to choose from, this time coming from the largest selling netbook vendor. Acer’s Windows based Aspire easyStore Home Server is apt for home and small business users who want to share, preserve and access data from a centralized location.The Aspire easyStore will go for an affordable $399 and fits in a Atom 230 processor, 2GB DDR2 RAM, 1TB HDD and three hot swappable HDD bays that can ramp up the storage up to 7TB. It also includes different ports like five USB, one eSATA and a RJ-45 LAN.
Acer’s working hard to match its Taiwanese competitor’s Eee PC line. They are looking to add one more to its expanding family of Aspire One. The Aspire One 571, which looks similar to D250 adds few new things that you wouldn’t find in a run-of-the-mill netbook. The screen size though remains the same at 10.1-inches but Acer has upped the resolution at 1280×720 with a 16:9 aspect ratio. It also integrates a co-processor from Quartics apart from Intel’s N280 which will do the encoding and decoding of the HD content.Also, one more unusual thing the AA1 571 boasts is the inclusion of an optical drive. It’s not a regular optical drive but a small 32mm Vmedia discs that was seen a year back on Spice’s handset.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Will be 24" in time for holidays? The first Acer Aspire One had a 9-inch screen and was extremely popular. It will however be phased out and replaced with a 10-inch variant, and an 11.6" version is in the making already. At this rate of growth, we have calculated that the Aspire One will be a luggable by late July.
The line between netbooks and laptops – if there ever was one – is getting more and more blurred, and soon all that remains will be a mainstream laptop with very poor performance. Dell was the first manufacturer to remove ‘small’ from the netbook formula with its 12-inch Inspiron Mini 12. Even the ‘cheap’ part of the recipe is being phased out as new netbooks are getting bigger and more full-featured.
Now Acer is doing the same with an 11.6-inch version of its Aspire One netbook lineup. The new model comes with an Atom Z530 CPU on the Intel “Poulsbo” chipset with GMA500 graphics, which should be capable of HD video playback (720p and 1080i) according to Intel. The screen resolution is 1366x768.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Acer has confirmed the availability of a 10.1-inch Aspire One netbook. The netbook comes with a widescreen LED backlit display (1024×600 pixels), an Intel Atom processor, up to 2GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, and an optional 6-cell battery for up to to 7 hours of operation on a single charge. The Windows XP-powered netbook is based on the Mobile Intel 945GSE/82801GBM chipset. Other features include a built-in webcam, 802.11b/g WiFi, Bluetooth, optional 3G or WiMAX broadband connection, and a multi-in-one media card reader.
