(Source: Digit-Life.com)

Quite a bit dated specs-wise, but price-wise, there’s really not much to complain about. Nevertheless, Digit-Life.com takes a look, and reviews whether the 1.7GHz Intel® Pentium® M-powered notebook is actually good enough for “comfortable operation”.

Not surprisingly, the 14.1″ Acer (with 60GB HDD and 256MB RAM) managed to scrape good feedback (hey, we are talking about Acer and a low price point, right?). They conclude that: “The notebook pleased me. It is no genius, but it has a good keyboard layout, a convenient wide panel, and most importantly it’s indecently cheap. It’s a very good solution for the money in abstract terms. But for the situation with technical support. It turns a purchase of this notebook into a big lottery. But the money…”

The slim and sleek body of the Aspire L310 looks amazing, but be prepared to sacrifice (hardware) upgrade potential if you opt for one of these compact babies. Well, that’s obvious enough. So, what else did CNET say in their review of one of Acer’s latest desktops:

The Aspire L310 works as a trim, affordable computer that will also serve light home-theater-PC duties. It doesn’t offer as much room for improvement as its competition, but as long as you don’t have plans for upgrading or running Windows Vista full bore, this system will serve you well.

Around US$850 for a 1.86GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB DDRII RAM (max. 2GB), and a 250GB hard disk seems pretty good (among the big names at least), but note that it doesn’t come with a DVD writer or a dedicated graphics card of any sort. Of course, it is a small-form-factor PC, so I guess we weren’t supposed to expect too much, right?

P.S.: There doesn’t seem to be much stock of it online yet, at least, compared to the HP Pavilion Slimlines.

For yet another month, Acer saw an increase in consolidated revenues - now up 5.6% on year to NT$43.5 billion. This is 2.1% higher than last month’s figures (NT$42.9 billion), and is in fact a new record high.

With the Christmas season looming up, there’s certainly a lot of potential for further gains. So, will we see even more progress from Acer come 2007?

[News via Digitimes]

(Source: Yahoo!)

While Dell plays the love-love game with Google, Acer has decided to play catch-up with a recently announced multi-year partnership with Yahoo!.

The deal starts with a co-branded toolbar and start page (based on the Yahoo! personalised home page, of course), which will be preloaded on all Acer PCs worldwide starting from 1st October, 2006. Localised versions will be developed for many countries as well.

(Source: Stuff Magazine)

Well, this might not be an Acer product, but it can be used with an Acer notebook. That’s a good enough reason for us to feature this nifty Bluetooth remote control which can be slotted into your notebook’s ExpressCard slot.

But then, you probably won’t understand our fascination with the Interlink Electronics VP6600 ExpressCard Media Remote until you read Stuff Mag’s feature of the device. Of course, since they did mix our fav Acer Ferrari notebook with their uhmm… analysis, we could just be biased.

(Source: NotebookReview.com)

On NotebookReview.com’s list last month, the Acer Aspire 5672 was the 10th most popular notebook. This month, it’s climbed to 6th place, with the newly inducted Aspire 5102 at No. 8.

This makes it two for Acer, the highest number from a single manufacturer (along with Dell and Toshiba).

Oh yes, the Top 3 on the list are still the Toshiba Satellite A105, the Dell Inspiron e1505, and the Sony VAIO SZ - though the VAIO SZ has lost its 2nd placing to the Inspiron e1505.

Read more news and reviews on the Acer Aspire 5102WLMi notebook.

In Greenpeace’s first Guide to Greener Electronics, Acer was ranked 12th out of the 14 top mobile and PC producers worldwide. The scorecard ranks companies on their use of environmentally harmful chemicals and electronic waste recycling, so it normally wouldn’t be surprising for an Asian-based producer like Acer to score so badly.

But even LG Electronics - a Taiwan-based company like Acer - ranked 7th on the list, while five other Asian companies were ranked within the Top 10, indicating that Acer has quite a lot of work to do playing catch up.

All 14 companies, however, failed to reach the necessary standards for a “green” ranking.

[News via WebWire]

(Source: MP3 Newswire)

As the latest addition to Acer’s media player stable, the MP-340 comes in with a 1.8″ TFT display (smaller than its bigger sibling’s 3.5″ screen), with the capability to tackle MP3/WMA audio formats, plus the JPEG image format and H.264 video. According to early news releases, it doesn’t support the staple AVI format nor DRM-type codecs.

Storage-wise, it comes with a 20GB hard drive, plus an SD-card slot. Dimensions-wise, we’ll be looking at 3.7″ x 2.5″ x 0.8″. And if Acer’s claims are to be believed, the MP-340 lasts 10 hours on a single charge (with the display off).

P.S.: It’ll come with Sudoku in-built too, and is apparently being sold in Germany already (for US$280 to $318).

[News via MP3 Newswire]