Archive for the 'Acer' Category
Acer Ferrari 1004WTMi
Thursday, October 12th, 2006Since we reviewed the Ferrari 4000 last year, Acer has released a fleet of Ferrari-themed laptops in all sizes. The ultraportable of the bunch, the Ferrari 1000, has a compact chassis worthy of the sports car maker’s logo, and its speedy performance on our benchmarks would likewise make the Italian engineers proud. Unfortunately, its battery [...]
Acer Aspire 9805WKHi
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006There was a time when 17-inch widescreen laptops were considered downright huge, but thanks to lower LCD costs and Dell’s launch of its 20-inch widescreen notebook, the XPS M2010, monstrous laptops are starting to take over my test area. The Acer Aspire 9805WKHi, with a 20-inch widescreen, weighs a shoulder-straining 17.1-pounds, so it isn’t for [...]
Acer Aspire 9800
Saturday, July 29th, 2006The Acer Aspire 9800 is one supersize laptop. Weighing 17.3 pounds (without its AC adapter) and featuring a 20.1-inch display, it sounds ridiculous to call the computer a laptop. Yet there it is: a screen hinged to a keyboard deck, like any other laptop–except a lot bigger. We’ve seen large laptops before, and they all [...]
Acer Travelmate 4202WLMi
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006The Acer TravelMate 4202WLMi delivers plenty of value for small-business users and novices looking for a first notebook. The unit costs a mere $1,099 (list), yet it includes an Intel Core Duo T2300 (1.67 GHz), 1GB of RAM, and plenty of hard drive space. At 6.0 pounds, it falls on the border between a desktop [...]
Acer Aspire 9504WSMi
Thursday, May 25th, 2006Pitting Acer’s multimedia desktop replacement, the Aspire 9500, against our Editors’ Choice-winning Toshiba Qosmio G25 is like enacting a standoff between two notorious gunslingers: both are so evenly matched that it’s hard to guess which will remain standing when the smoke clears. Each laptop offers compelling features, including a huge 17-inch wide-screen display, multimedia controls, [...]
