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Even though this laptop is titled with Aspire, it is actually the Aspire TimelineX series. The Timeline is a business end line with better portability, battery and features. The battery is the biggest deal in this model. It comes with a 9 cell battery that extends out to the bottom of the laptop. While this [...]

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For those of you with better things to do with your time, I’m going to write a quick report on the Global Press Conference held yesterday in NY. First thing to say is that it was a major event as far as Acer was concerned and it’s interesting to see that the journalists took us [...]

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Remember last year when we hooked up with Pete Bethune and the Earthrace (Ady Gil) boat that was cruelly sunk in the Antarctic?

Well that’s all thanks to Emily Penn who Acer helped out by sponsoring her with a first-edition Acer Aspire Timeline.

Just got this letter (and some photos) from her with a quick update I thought you’d appreciate hearing about. She’s currently in Rio winding down but is expected back in the UK from November to February if any radio broadcasters or journalists want to catch up with her…

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This is a post that could worry the many Acer Guys I’ve had the pleasure of meeting over the past four and a bit years.

Don’t panic. I know what I’m doing… I think.

You may have noticed that I’ve been almost completely absent from the blog for the best part of a year, leaving this site and its free, real time feedback to problems, posts and other general queries about Acer products almost completely in the hands of a few dedicated members to whom I will be eternally grateful. You know who you are!

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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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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! Box.net you can see it in action in [...]

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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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