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Screw Acer, Microsoft’s Already Working on Surface 2
After Acer basically threw down an ultimatum over Microsoft and its Surface tablets, now we’re hearing that Redmond’s already hard at work on successors for its soon-to-be-released own-brand tablets. I...
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Acer’s Got an Awesome-Looking New 11-inch Touchscreen Ultrabook
While everyone’s spewing out Windows 8 hybrids all over the place, Acer has an 11-inch ultrabook that looks pretty exciting. The Aspire S7, the apparent semi-successor to the Aspire S5, has an 11-inch...
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Did Google Really Stop Acer From Making a Non-Android Phone?
Acer was planning on launching a low-end phone in China running Aliyun OS, a Linux based operating system that’s only relevant to us because it wasn’t Android. The phone was meant to be cheap and...
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First Bloatware-Loaded Windows 8 PCs Go On Sale Early
If you’re champing at the bit to get hold of a Windows 8 computer, you can now buy an Acer or Gateway from HSN.com — just be warned that it’s loaded with crapware and likely a poor idea. ZDNet has done...
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Because Nothing Says Acer Like Megan Fox Talking to Dolphins
I don’t know what this is but it should probably never have existed. At least the pitch meeting must have been fun: ACER MARKETING GUY 1: I’ve got a great idea for an Acer ad. ACER MARKETING GUY 2: I...
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Looks Like Acer is Planning a £70 Tablet
A couple days ago, we heard rumours that Asus might be prepping a super-cheap Nexus tablet around the £70 price range. Today, the rumourmongers are full of talk that Acer is also planning on getting in...
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Asus and Acer: The Netbook Is Dead
Netbooks, those tiny, underpowered computers that were once held up as the saviour of the laptop market, have long since fallen from favour. When Dell announced it was ending production, the end was...
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Turns Out That £70 Acer Tablet Is Actually Going to be Pricier Than Expected
A few weeks ago, reports trickled down from the mount that Acer was prepping a $100 (UK price wasn’t mentioned, but $100 is around £60 – £70) 7-inch tablet with specs that were juuuussssssst decent...
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Acer Planning Cheap Quad-Core 8″ and 10″ Android Tablet Attack?
Some slightly garbled, automatically translated words from Acer’s Chinese president seem to confirm it’s about to launch an assault on the cheap Android segment, with quad-core 8″ and 10″ models both...
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An 11-Inch Acer Laptop For Just £330 Is Your “Screw Flowers and Chocolate,...
Yesterday, we urged you to spend £120 on a new phone for youself as a lovely Valentine’s Day treat. That was a mere warm-up. Today we want you to ignore the silly made-up merchandise-flogging non-event...
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Rumour: Acer’s 8″ Iconia W3 is the First Small Windows 8 Tablet
Microsoft’s promise that we’ll see smaller and cheaper Windows 8 machines might be about to be made true by Acer, with leaked images showing something smaller and running Windows 8. Just like it said....
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Acer Aspire R7: The Craziest Thing to Happen to Laptops in Years
This is either brilliant or absolutely insane. Acer’s new R7 ultrabook is the weirdest change to laptop design in years. The R7 switches the touchpad and keyboard placement on laptop’s body, with the...
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Acer Aspire R7 Hands On: We’re Not Quite Ready for This Kind of Crazy
Can we start by saying the Acer Aspire R7 is nuts, and that’s totally great? Because it is; it’s great that Acer’s doing this weird new thing that doesn’t exactly make sense, just to see if it works....
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Amazon Leaks the World’s First Small-Screen Windows 8 Tablet
Rumours have swirled recently suggesting that a new breed of small Windows 8 tablets would soon appear in the wild. Now, Amazon has managed to accidentally leak the first tablet of its kind. The Acer...
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Acer’s 8.1″ W3 Windows Tablet Confirmed as a Thing You Can Have, From June
The previously leaked Acer Iconia W3 has been officially announced by the hardware maker today, which added a stamp of officialdom to internet rumour. The 8.1″ tablet is 11.3mm thick, with a dual-core...
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Acer Iconia W3 Hands-On: First Mini Windows 8 Tablet Can’t Measure Up
It was one of the most anticipated devices of this year’s Computex: The Acer Iconia W3, the first full Windows 8 tablet to take on the iPad Mini. We finally got some hands-on time, and the results are...
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Acer Iconia W3 Review: The First Small Windows Tablet is Totally Useless
Small tablets — 7 and 8 inchers — have taken the Android and iPad markets by storm in the last year, but until now, there haven’t been any machines sporting Microsoft’s touchy-feely OS. Acer’s the...
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Acer Aspire S7 Review: The PC Revival Is Late, But It’s Here
Laptops are at a point right now where they should all be more or less excellent. Ultrabooks are into their third year of relevance, and the screens and processors that are widely available are good...
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This Is the First Phone With a 4K Video Camera
This is Acer’s new giganta-smartphone, the Liquid S2, and it’s sitting on a fairly impressive secret: it’s the world’s first phone to pack a 4K-capable video camera. Shout “overkill” or “progress”,...
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The Best Haswell-Updated Computers
There’s a decent chance that a fair few of you will be stumping up for a new laptop in the next month or two, as uni students head back to halls to discover the wonders of the internet, school kids...
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