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NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround eyes-on, triple the fun
What’s better than gaming on one 3D screen? Gaming on three, of course.
ASUS Eee PC 1201PN and Eee Top 2010PNT with Ion 2 caught lounging around at CeBIT
You didn’t think ASUS would let Acer be the only one with a next-generation Ion netbook , did you? While wandering around ASUS’s CeBIT booth we couldn’t help but notice some new Ion 2 systems, including the 12.1-inch Eee PC 1201PN. With an identical chassis to the 1201N that we reviewed a few months back, the 1201PN swaps out the Diamondville Atom for a new Pine Trail N450 processor and a discrete NVIDIA GPU.
Acer tables e-reader plans, says market is ‘not that big’
What’s this we hear? Is it the distant thunder of sanity emanating from Acer’s Taiwanese headquarters? The Taipei Times is reporting this morning Acer chairman Wang Jeng-tang’s announcement that his company will not be releasing an ebook reader “for now.” It was only a month ago that Jeng-tang and his crew were telling the world about the aggressive inroads they were going to make into the Amazon-dominated e-reader market, but it appears some second-guessing has been taking place in those Taipei boardrooms, which has led to the scrapping of the earlier plans
CE-Oh no he didn’t! Part LXVIII: Only Apple and dope smokers claim to know the future of tablets, says Dell VP
What we’d normally brush off as pretty standard mainstream tech piece became comedy gold thanks to the acerbic wit of Dell’s John Thode . The VP of mobile devices was discussing its companies entry into the tablet industry (all the while promoting the Mini 5 , of course) and seemed to downplay Apple’s iPad momentum
Acer Aspire One 532G first to feature NVIDIA Ion 2 switchable graphics
Well here’s one we didn’t expect to come out of MWC. Acer decided to throw some netbook news into its Liquid E press conference with the 10.1-inch Aspire One 532G — the first netbook with NVIDIA’s Ion 2 .
Acer not making a tablet, will focus on ultra-thin laptops
We’re sort of loving Acer’s new bad-boy vibe — not only have company execs recently gone on record saying that US PC manufacturers will be dead within 20 years and that they want to ” change the Microsoft-Intel environment ” with Chrome OS , but now they’re standing firm while everyone else races to do a tablet.
