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Monday, October 8, 2007
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LCD monitors are becoming ever more popular, especially widescreens. A few years ago it was uncommon to see someone at a LAN party with an LCD monitor. Now you can find that most people will bring their widescreen LCD monitor because it's a whole heck of a lot lighter than a CRT and most of the time the display is a lot better. Let's take a look to see how the Acer AL2002W widescreen monitor will stand up to the performance expected of gaming at LAN parties.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
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Gaming notebooks belong to a special class of machines. Two years ago questions about gaming notebooks would only irritate professionals - "Why? A notebook is not a desktop!" But time flies. Notebooks were replacing home desktops in all fields. Only 3D games held their ground because of high requirements to performance. However, it's not reasonable to buy a big desktop only for games, while its other functions are performed well by a smaller notebook. That's why more and more potential buyers of notebooks would like to use them not only for work, but also for entertainment. And 3D games are a significant part of it. Today we are going to review the latest gaming notebook from Acer. Let's see how it copes with games as well as other home tasks.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2007
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As a NAS appliance the easyStore leaves a lot to be desired as its features are very basic. Nevertheless, it offers plenty of storage for the price and its iSCSI based data backup and bare metal recovery features make it a unique proposition.
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Thursday, August 16, 2007
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This ultra-portable notebook model we are reviewing today that comes with a wide 12" display is not very cheap. It is a business model that comes at a business price. The ultra-portable class of notebook PCs is gradually becoming more popular, as there appears to be more business users who need notebooks for constant short-term trips, where a small notebook and light weight play an important role. Although this class of notebook PCs is growing, the sales volume of ultra-portable notebooks is still far from the sales of regular notebook classes.
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Monday, July 30, 2007
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LCD displays have exploded over the past year, especially widescreens. They started with 17" and 19" models, but now with the price drops 20" and 22" widescreen LCD's are becoming more of a standard now. Today we will be looking at the Acer AL2051W 20-inch widescreen monitor that you can pick up for under $200 from Geeks.com. We will see if it is worth your hard earned cash.
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Friday, July 27, 2007
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As a company it has a reputation for putting out powerful hardware at competitive prices, and the TravelMate 6292 continues this trend. Our review sample (model number 6292-302G16N) is available for around £1,050 and sports an Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 clocked at 2.0GHz, with 4MB L2 Cache and an 800MHz Front Side Bus. This is ably supported by 2GB 667MHz DDR2 RAM, a 160GB SATA hard drive, integrated Intel X3100 graphics and a Super-Multi DVD burner drive.
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Thursday, July 26, 2007
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In theory this line-up should be able to compete with offerings from the likes of TomTom, Garmin and in particular Mio, whose products run on the same operating system core. Alas, the sum of the v200's various parts is rather less than one might hope for.
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Friday, June 29, 2007
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A compact and corporate-looking appliance, Acer's Altos easyStore is a viable solution for small businesses wanting to avoid the cost and complexity of a general-purpose file server. In terms of performance it can't match a modern Windows server, and can't be used to host applications, but its processor and Gigabit Ethernet interface are more than enough for a small business network or departmental workgroup looking solely for file sharing. The Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 hard disks are pretty quick too, and the backup and recovery software are an added bonus.
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Thursday, May 31, 2007
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Designed under commission by BMW Designworks, the new Aspire range utilises a 'Gemstone' design focus that has generated a distinctive and unique look. On the outside one can genuinely see that 'Gemstone' idea in the shape and finish. Though the notebook is obviously rectangular in shape, the subtle use of curves gives it a pleasant oval shaped quality, and the shiny pearlescent black finishes off the look beautifully. Importantly, this gives the 5920 a real sense of quality before you've even opened it up and started using it.
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Monday, March 12, 2007
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The new AT4220 LCD TV from Acer is quite possibly the silliest TV we've ever tested. But in a good way. A very good way, in fact. For even though it weighs in at a hefty 42in from screen corner to screen corner, it's available for the insane sum of just £774.80. Which we believe makes the AT4220 emphatically the cheapest 42in TV solution we've ever tested. Surely, though, it's not possible for such a crazily cheap TV to actually be any good, is it?
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While not our primary focus at Phoronix, in the past we had reviewed the Acer AL1714CB, AL1732 Prestige, and dual AL1715b LCD monitors. Even though Acer's LCDs are not nearly as popular as those from Dell are, we have been very fond of the models that we had looked at in the past. Being nearly a year since we looked at the AL1732 Prestige, which was a phenomenal display, we once again chased down another new Acer monitor. In this review we will be looking at the Acer AL2223Wd Office Line 22" LCD monitor. The Acer AL2223Wd monitor has a recommended resolution of 1680 x 1050 with its WSXGA+ screen and the viewing angles are 160 degrees for both horizontal and vertical. Other specifications include a 300cd/m2 brightness, 800:1 contrast ratio, and 5ms response time. Both VGA and DVI are supported. For what it's worth, this display is also Windows Vista certified.
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Sunday, February 18, 2007
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The concern with the AL2216W is that the design and picture quality clearly hint at a product being designed to hit a price point. The design is uninspiring, connectivity is poor (no HDCP) and picture quality is average. This monitor truly shows that colour vibrancy and contrast ratio are a lot more important for enjoying images than just a low response time. If you're in the market for a 22" screen I could only recommend looking at spending more on the Iiyama or Viewsonic. Of course, if you truly value quality and connectivity over size you'll look at something like the Samsung 215TW, assuming you've got the budget.
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Friday, January 12, 2007
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Design wise the P600 series navigator is a massive improvement over the frankly awful d150. It's undeniably a really nice looking device, thanks to a pleasing 4in widescreen display and due to the fact that it's thin, compared to something like a TomTom 510. Its dimensions are 116 x 81 x 23 mm (L x W x H) and it's only 195g. This makes it eminantely pocketable, at least in a jacket pocket, which is just what you want. With GPS devices pretty much being the number one most stolen item from cars, once you leave your vehicle, your pocket is where you want it to be.
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Saturday, November 18, 2006
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Accustomed as we are to the almost bewildering rate of price cuts in the LCD world, it takes quite a deal to raise our eyebrows these days. But they're well and truly raised right now, we assure you, thanks to Acer's AT3720: a 37in LCD TV that's yours for the astonishingly small sum of £800. But with previous TV efforts from traditionally PC brand Acer failing to inspire, will the cut-price AT3720 really turn out to be the bargain it first appears?
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Monday, October 16, 2006
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The name of this Acer Media Center system, the Idea 500, is actually very apt. Despite having been around for some years now, the Media Center platform is still a niche product and are yet to register on the radar of the average consumer. Recently I discovered that PC World is offering a home cinema installation service based on Media Center systems so with that kind of exposure things might change. Right now though, Media Center is still much more likely to be bought by the PC savvy consumer. That said, if you had the Acer Idea 500 under your TV, most people would probably have no idea that it was a PC.
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