The Acer Guy

You can’t say I’m biased.
Got a link (no names) to the first “review” of the new Gemstone Aspire notebooks.
It wasn’t all that favourable, but there again the review wasn’t all that good. Particularly as it was from CNet. I was expecting a little more but I guess beggars can’t be choosers.
So far it seems the [...]

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UPDATE 3: I have closed comments on this thread as the argument has moved on. The solution can be found by reading through the (long) thread below.
UPDATE 2: I have had an explanation of this problem from the tech support guys at Acer and the solution below is only OK for the Aspire 9300 and [...]

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While writing some new marketing material for the Gemstone concept today, I came across the Acer News Special Edition and thought it would be interesting for The Acer Guy readers.
It contains some background on the Gemstone and ProFile concepts and goes on to explain some of the reasons behind Acer’s bizzare PR campaign…
Enjoy.

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Acer continues to push ahead in the most unexpected places.
The latest piece of news to arrive in my inbox comes all the way from Ethiopia, where Acer has just won a 3.5 million dollar agreement to supply the Ethiopian Ministry of Education with High-End Desktop PCs.
Under the deal, Acer, already the leading supplier of notebooks [...]

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This is something you rarely see outside of the main offices and sales channels but I personally think it’s a wonderful representation of the character and spirit behind this fast-growing IT company.
It’s also really well-written!

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Yesterday I was in a meeting and the Aspire Idea came up.
All the usual arguments were discussed: positioning, competition, product development, marketing material, that sort of thing.
It’s a great product because it’s a giant step towards realizing the digital convergency dream. And that makes it an easy product to write about.
But I bet none of [...]

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This is much more like it.
This is the official Acer Gemstone video, used at the launch event.
Obviously this is a low-resolution version so the dolby effects don’t quite come through, but you kind of get the idea…

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I’m a little bit upset.
I had no idea the ShinyShiny crew were at the Gemstone/ProFile launch.
It would have been fun to meet up and try to find out why they can’t stop slamming Acer’s products. We could have talked about the importance of industrial design and how it was applied to both product lines, or [...]

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This is going to be a long post, and an unexpected one for “regular” readers, but a lot of The Acer Guy went into part of what happened yesterday. What better place than this to celebrate it?

After more than three weeks of intense preparations and countless speculation, last night saw the launch of the Acer [...]

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