Archive for September 12th, 2009

Acer kick off Timeline 8hr competition

September 12th, 2009

Acer kick off Timeline 8hr competition

Last year the people took to the skies to try to clinch Acer ‘Want One?’. Win a competition, this year the stakes have been on an Acer Aspire notebook timeline position increased from an estimated 8 hours of runtime from a single charging.

The new Eight Hour Contest calls for would-be timeline winner of a video explaining what they did with everything you do not shoot at runtime, the public will vote and the most popular is not only the ultra-portable, but will receive a trip to CES 2010, and more.

The second prize will receive a chance to record an Xbox 360, Zune PMP, longer timeline Acer notebooks and even $ 1,000 in cold hard cash. Registration for the competition is now open and contributions are up to the 10th Accepted December, more information can be found here.

Archos 10s to arrive in October

September 12th, 2009

Archos 10s to arrive in October

The company first was an updated version of its 10-inch netbook in June, but it had already been MIA. Now Laptop Magazine reports that the 10s should be available in mid-October.

The Archos 10s has a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, 1GB of RAM and a 160 GB hard drive. Nothing special there. But the laptop is quite thin, lightweight, even by netbook standards. It weighs only 2.2 kilograms and measures 0.87 inches thick.

Archos, which is best known as a manufacturer of portable media players, also raises some media software and some free downloads of credit for the Archos Media Store in his netbooks, which could make the 10 a little more attractive to some customers. Despite the fact that the laptop is in mid-October, starts just a few days before Windows 7, is the Archos 10s with Windows XP.