The Acer Guy

All in all I’d say yesterday was a great day.

The project I’m working on is absolutely huge and the “brand guidelines” – meaning naming, brand philosophy, colour choice and icon usage etc., is right at the very start because if you don’t know what you’re building, you’re going to get stuck very quickly.

Fortunately this part went very smoothly and everyone welcomed…

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I find myself sitting in a very quiet, yet highly productive office I cannot name in London. I’m not actually part of anything going on here right now but I’m part of the caravan trailing through this city today meeting a bunch of agencies and suppliers on possibly the most interesting project Acer has ever undertaken.

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Sure Olympic has passed, this was a model purchased after the Olympics was finished, so what? this is just another normal Aspire Timeline 4810T with aluminum lid and a brushed finish.

Exterior:
The screen is a high glossed screen just like any other laptop display, however, it is ultra bright with the new LED back lighting. It is not comparable to how phenomenal the brightness it can produce with my old tank 5920G. With the LED back lighting, it will lit up instant to full brightness with lower power consumption to traditional fluorescent back lighting which was inefficient and gets pretty warm at the location where the lamp is. It boasts 1366×768, which means it can show that pretty Windows 7 boot logo!

On the front, there is the multi-card reader for conveniences, this image also compares the machine to my beefy 5920G. In the center, there is an amber light that indicated the charging status, amber means charging, blue means 100% full.

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Hi everybody and welcome back to another very rare installment from the ever-so-slightly-hectic world of The Acer Guy.

In the four years I’ve been living online I’ve discovered that writing an article here is like preparing for a wedding. You have to know that “she’s the one” and that you want to go though with it of course, yet every now and again, when you’re under the kind of pressure we are day in-day out to satisfy her never-ending needs, you often experience first hand that love has some wonderful ups and colossal downs.

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Here’s a little something from my inbox that might interest you…

Gazaro.com are currently holding a simple promotional contest and the prize is an AOD250 10.1″ Aspire One Netbook Computer!

All you have to to is predict the price Amazon will be selling the netbook on May 10th and the closest entry takes home the prize.

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OK. Confession time. My contributions to this part of the site are in direct proportion to the amount of spare room I have on my desk which more or less sums up the atmosphere over at Acer HQ. Today I got a sneak preview of the Gartner results for 1Q 2010 and there’s very little between the top two brands (Acer and HP) and also I’ve seen what’s coming (and named most of it too) and can actually say that after a long stretch of CPU brags and first to market technologies, the PC market is about to become very interesting. It’s a battle and we’re definitely closing in which explains why I feel like I’ve aged 5 years this year alone!

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It’s not every morning you get to sit down with Gianfranco Lanci before he has breakfast and grill him on the subject of smartphones but that’s exactly what Michelle Caruso-Cabrera from CNBC did when she met up with him at the closing ceremony of the Vancouver Olympic Games on her way to the CTIA Wireless [...]

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I’ve stolen this piece so don’t yell at me. I thought it was so well written it deserved to be published here too but it’s not mine.

I got it from those very nice people over at the CLOVE BLOG and all your comments, thoughts and remarks should therefore go there. Unless you want to talk about it with TAG readers that is…

Great article guys!

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As proof, if any were needed, that my real job is hindering my plans for TheAcerGuy content, here’s a list of what I did today:

1. Product Naming PPT presentation (classified)
2. Service Naming PPT presentation (classified)
3. Website Naming PPT presentation (unrelated)
4. Timeline X ADV checks (read this for the scoop – Great work on respecting the roadmap Acer US!!!)
4. Timeline X press release (see above – looking forward to discussing this)
5. New product press release (classified – great name, he says, modestly)
6. Acer Group Staff Appraisal Guide check (Human Resources. 30 pages. – need I say more?)
7. Projectors series brochure check (yawn)

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Have you guys been following the Winter Olympics? It’s been getting some pretty good coverage where I’m from but the time delay (Vancouver’s 9 hours behind where I live) is making it hard for me to be a regular.

Which is a shame as there’s something about the Olympic Games (both winter and summer) that make them both a really special. I like the fact that they mix competition and sportsmanship, national pride and cultural equality and that every now and then they produce some truly unexpected heroes.

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