WITH THE ACER Liquid just out the door and yet to prove its worth in the quickly growing Android smartphone market space, we can’t but wonder how many Windows Mobile partners Microsoft has left, especially as Acer is planning another six Android devices for the first half of next year.
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ACER’S CHAIRMAN, JT Wang has come up with a simple reason as to why Acer’s sales of CULV thin and light notebooks have been so poor – it’s all the fault of Dell and HP, because they’re selling mainstream notebooks far too cheaply in the US market. Talk about playing the blame game.
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WE’VE COME ACROSS an interesting bit of information that we’re fairly certain that no SSD maker would want you to know about. With the current push of SSD drives into every sector of the computer market, no-one seems to have stopped to take a closer look at the drives themselves, but instead everyone’s raving about the performance.
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HP SEEMS TO BE a big fan of putting Nvidia’s rebadged GeForce 300 series cards in its systems, as a second card has come to light, namely the GeForce 315. The GeForce 315 is based on Nvidia’s GT216 graphics chip, which is better known as the GT220 in retail.
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IT APPEARS THAT Nvidia has found a way to make its Ion 2 chipset work with Intel’s upcoming Pineview Atom processors. Reportedly, Acer is the first Nvidia partner to have placed orders for Ion 2, although it’s not yet clear what devices the new chipset will go into.
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ALTHOUGH THE UNWASHED MASSES might not be aware of Intel’s upcoming refresh of its now nearly two year old Atom N270 and somewhat faster N280, those in the know have been waiting for the Atom N450 for a good few months already. However, it seems like we won’t see any netbooks powered by the new processor until early next year, as Intel has decided to make sure that none of its partners will launch products before the 10th of January 2010, according to Digitimes.
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