The Acer Guy

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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Envy MacBooks with 2 finger easy scrolling on the touchpad? I have a gift for you all!
With this driver, you can have 2 finger scrolling, chiral motion scrolling, momentum, 3 finger flick, 3 finger launch. Best of all, it works well with the Launch Manager patch!
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you can see it in action in my video here:
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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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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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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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Check out this brand new video from the guys from Netbook News.
They’re in Barcelona at the Acer stand at the MCW right now and this is a pretty good review of the Acer Aspire One 532G, the first 10-inch Netbook with Intel Atom N450 and NVIDIA Ion 2.
Basically with these two little gizmos, we’ll start [...]

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Not too sure why there are not much talk about the WiFi Link 5100 or 5300 compatibility for Santa Rosa with PM965 chipset, so now, I put it to a test for everyone! Guess what? it works!
This is the card, Intel WiFi Link 5100 (looks cheap……)
Remove the 9 screws to remove the back plate
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In between writing the web content for a bunch of new smartphones I’ve been trying to get my hands on information about the notebook that is making a few ripples over on Twitter – the Aspire 3811TZ and Aspire 3811TZG, Acer’s first notebooks to get Greenpeace’s stamp of approval and receive an Energy Star 5.0 rating.

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