Isn’t it interesting that Asus who was supposed to have carved the netbook market niche is now playing second fiddle to Acer who was rather a little late in entering the market? What does it say? Does it mean that Acer netbooks are better than the Eee PCs? Or cheaper perhaps?

Other stats from other netbook companies include – Samsung with 12%, HP with 11.6%, Toshiba with 4.2% and Dell with only 3.5%.

The report also said that there were around 3.7m netbooks shipped in the EMEA regional along for Q3. This is 68.9% more than what was ship a year ago. This only goes to show that netbooks are still getting their share of the PC market industry.

via Register Hardware

A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.

Europeans Love Acer Netbooks More than the Eee PCs

Specs wise, the Ferrari ONE live up to its car counterpart, boasting an AMD Athlon Neo X2 L310 1.20Ghz CPU, AMD M780G chipset, ATI Radeon HD 3200, 4GB of RAM, 160GB HDD, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, 11.6-inch LED-backlit display in 1366×768 resolution and a weight of 1.5kg.

Pricing is still unavailable, but we’re pretty sure it will be release to the Japanese market on November 27.

via Akihabara News

A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.

Acer Officially Launches the Ferrari Netbook

Via Liliputing

A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.

Dual core Acer Aspire 1410 reviewed, deemed better than original

With the Holiday season just around the corner, expect PC manufacturers to rush on their new netbooks in time for the start of the holiday shopping season.

Acer for one is already preparing its Christmas netbook offering, and Acer certainly got loads of them in store for all of us. Blogeee listed these Acer netbooks as follow:

Aspire One D250-0Bk_XP316 – This netbook will sport a 10.1-glossy screen, Intel Atom N270 CPU, 0.3MP webcam, SDHC card reader, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, 3 USB ports, 3-cell battery and Windows XP dual booting with Android. This Aspire One netbook will go for around 259 €.

Next is the Aspire One D250_0DK_W7616 with almost the same spec as the previous Aspire One but this time with Windows 7 and 6-cell battery. Price goes up to 299 €.

Another Acer netbook to watch out for is the Aspire One 531h-ODK_W725 with almost same spec as the D250_0DK_W7616 but this time with a bump up storage of 250GB and 2 SDHC card reader plus Bluetooth 2.0. Price is bumped up to 329 €.

Last, we have the Aspire On 751h-52BK_XP616. This netbook has an Intel Atom Z520 CPU, 6-cell battery with 7 hours battery life and Windows XP Home. It will sell for 349€.

So which one of these Acer netbooks are you keen on getting?

via Blogeee.net

A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.

Some Christmas Netbook Goodies from Acer

If you’re looking to upgrade from XP or Vista on your netbook, or perhaps you already have, then here’s some great news for you. Some netbook makers have already updated the driver download pages to include Windows 7 drivers which should work better than Vista drivers you may be using instead. Most Asus netbooks now have drivers for Windows 7 from their support page.

Other companies have updated their support pages but, not all companies support many netbook models. There is support from Toshiba for the NB205, while Acer are providing Windows 7 drivers for the Aspire One 751 and AOP531h with AOD250 to follow. Dell are listing drivers for the Mini 10v and Mini 10 but not the Inspiron Mini 9 or 12. HP on the other hand have support for discontinued netbooks, such as the HP Mini 2140. They’ve also got support for the 110, 5101 and other models. Lenovo have also updated their support page to include manuals but, no drivers yet. This could change soon though.

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A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.

Windows 7 drivers added for netbooks

Well, look what we have here – a sparkling new AspireRevo donning a much better specs and features.  The AspireRevo is Acer’s official entry to the nettop market which was recently released for public consumption. In fact, it was not too long ago, but here comes Acer announcing a more powerful and better performing nettop, I suppose.

The new AspireRevo nettop is now loaded with Windows 7, dual-core Atom 330 CPU, 2GB of RAM and take not of this, full ION graphics.

Complete specs of the Acer AspireRevo are as follow:

• 1080p HDMI output
• Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
• Intel Atom 330 Processor (1.6GHz)
• Integrated NVIDIA® ION Graphics Solution
• 2GB DDR2 SDRAM Memory
• 160GB SATA Hard Drive
• Six USB 2.0 Ports (Two Front, Four Back)
• HDMI Port
• eSATA Port
• VGA Port
• Multi-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader
• 802.11b/g/Draft-N Wireless
• Gigabit Ethernet
• Wireless Keyboard and Mouse
• USB Stereo Speakers
• High-Definition Headphone and Microphone Jacks

Interested with the AspireRevo? Unfortunately, as much as I want to give you the price info, I’m afraid that it is not yet available.

Via Gizmodo

A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.

Acer Upgrades the AspireRevo Nettop

Now that the Acer Aspire One D250 with its dual booting Win7/Android feature, is already out in the open, we’ve got two separate posts coming from Pocket-Lint and Register Hardware writers who got their hands-on the said netbook during its launch.

Interestingly both coverages noticed one major flaw with the machine – it’s inability to actually directly boot to Windows 7. Instead, the boot-up process takes you directly to the Android platform and to get Windows 7 running you need to do some manual procedures.

The Android installation on the Aspire One D250 is your simple desktop OS  which could very well be an alternative to other system offerings such as Splashtop. It’s just a simple interface for quickly browsing the web. While the Android’s main menu do however give you all the apps and options that you can use.

Check out some more hi-rest photos from  Pocket-Lint.

A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.

Acer Aspire One D250 Hands-On, Initial Impressions

We recently reported that the dual booting netbook from Acer should be available to purchase from November. At the time we had no price for the netbook but, the machine is now up for pre-order on Amazon, with a retail price. The Acer Aspire One D250 is available to pre-order for a price of $349.99. No specific release date is listed.

The netbook will dual boot Android and Windows XP. A Windows 7 model should also be available with the release of a Windows 7 model in Japan.

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A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.

Acer Aspire D250 up for Preorder and priced

Our friends in Japan are lucky indeed as Acer has just launched their upgraded Aspire One Netbook known as the AOD250. What was previously loaded with an Intel Atom N270 CPU now boost of the N280 instead and also comes with GMA 950 Graphic Chipset, 10.1-inch display (1280×720) resolution, 2GB of RAM, 150 GB of HDD, card reader, web camera, USB, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 and Multi-Touch Trackpad.

Of course what would probably make the Japanese consumers is the fact that this Acer Aspire One is now running the official Windows 7 Starter Edition. Battery pack is a 6-cell battery with 7.5 hours of battery life.

Price tag is around $520.

Via Akihabara News

A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.

Windows 7 Aspire One D250 Launched in Japan

Almost similar in features as the Gateway ECT18 Tablet PC, Acer seems to be prepping up a new touch screen convertible PC to be called the Aspire Timeline 1810p.

Aside from the fact that this new Aspire Timeline boasts of 11.6-inch LCD, it will also comes packed with Intel CULV and the other specs will most likely be similar with the previously released Aspire Timeline 1810T.

Of course since this will be a touchscreen convertible tablet PC, it will be running Windows 7.

No other details are available for the Aspire Timeline 1810p yet. But if you want to see how sleek-looking it is, here are some more features courtesy of macless blog.

Via Netbook News IT

A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.

Acer to Bring In the New Aspire Timeline 1810p