Budget or Dependable?
- posted by Michael Walsh on January 26th, 2007
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There is an interesting article over on BusinessWeek called Acer’s Hot New Designs. Lots of high-res pictures and quotes from senior management. I particularly like the quote “The Taiwanese PC maker is … releasing new designs to give its budget image a tune-up”. Talk about unsung heroes. Have these people heard about Empowering Technology, seen [...]
Entertainment Overkill
- posted by Michael Walsh on November 4th, 2006
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Talk about massive. I saw this at the Monaco Press Conference and it is a seriously-enormous piece of equipment. Massive in scale and massive in spec, and now there’s the Core 2 Duo version (9810) it packs an even bigger punch. I’ve read several sites saying it’s a notebook strapped onto one of Acer’s 20″ [...]
Empowering Pareto’s Principle
- posted by Michael Walsh on October 3rd, 2006
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It has been mentioned more than a few times that 80% of the components of competing PCs are all the same. Think about it: LCD screens, processors, hard disks, graphics cards (and dare I say it, batteries)… they’re all shipped in from one manufacturer or another and assembled in various combinations to offer optimum solutions [...]
