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The retail price for Acer Aspire S3 just dropped from $999 to $799, which gives 20% saving to all buyers. Anybody wanting this ultrabook can get it at Amazon.com,USA. Though it’s not the top of the class, there are no show-stoppers and, for the price, buyers will get a full Core i5 solution unlike the [...]

Acer has just unveiled Aspire S5, hailing it as the world’s thinnest Ultrabook. In fact, it was so slim, it only measures 15 mm at the maximal point, weighs less than 1.35 kg and is built with a 13.3-inch (34 cm) LCD display. Moreover, it features Acer’s Green Instant On technology for fast boot as [...]

The Acer Aspire S3 belongs to the new-generation laptop that features all of the boxes that Intel has laid out for the ultrabook category — ultra-fast, ultra-thin, ultra-affordable, and longer battery life of more than 5 hours. The Aspire S3 is so thin, it only measures 0.51 inch thick, not including the added four foam-rubber [...]

Acer finally introduced the new Aspire 5250-0468 which is a 15.6-inch laptop with HD Widescreen CineCrystal Display. It contains AMD E-Series dual-core processor with AMD Radeon HD for its outstanding graphics performance. This laptop runs by the Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit that is responsible in delivering the machine’s daily tasks and multimedia in [...]

Apparently, Intel still won’t budge and just won’t give PC makers such as Acer the CPU price subsidy necessary to launch sub-$1000 ultrabooks. And even though people like Acer Taiwan president Scott Lin appear confident about future sales of ultrabooks (compared with tablet PCs), it seems that the whole industry is a bit cautiously optimistic [...]