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Acer to Release Monster Sized Notebook -- Aspire 1710

By abaxter | 3/2/2004

Acer is charging into the U.S. market with one of the biggest and baddest desktop replacements yet. Introducing the new Acer Aspire 1710 with an Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Processor, 120GB 7200RPM Hard Drive, 802.11g Wi-Fi, 17" display, 1GB RAM and 16lbs of weight. Heavy numbers in all respects

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Acer Announces New 64-bit Notebook, HP and Asustek to Follow

By abaxter | 2/10/2004

Notebook computers with 64-bit processors could become mainstream within one or two years, ushering the industry into a new era and heralding a new battle among leading notebook vendors, according to sources at Taiwanese notebook makers. Acer will soon release the Aspire 1500 in Europe and HP and Asustek will follow in the next few months with their own AMD Athlon 64 processor based notebooks.

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Acer and Microsoft to Jointly Promote Table PCs

By abaxter | 12/3/2003

Acer and Microsoft will jointly call a meeting early this month to discuss and set strategies to further promote sales of Tablet PCs around the world, according to sources at Acer. Acer will offer an in-depth development plan aiming to boost sales of Tablet PCs in the six selected markets of Australia, Germany, Italy, Singapore, Taiwan and the US to around 20% of the notebook market in 2004, the sources said.

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Acer to Battle Dell in Direct Sales - Targets $10 Billion by 2006

By abaxter | 11/25/2003

Taiwan-based Acer said yesterday it will battle Dell and other giant rivals on sales of IT products with a new channel business model that can help Acer garner 40% growth in sales every year for the next few years.

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Notebook and Tech Deals 10/27

By abaxter | 10/28/2003

• HP: HP zt3000 notebook PentiumM-1.4GHz 15.4in 256MB 30GB $1092 shipped AR
• Dell Biz: Latitude D500 notebook Centrino 1.3GHz CDRW 802.11b/g $949 shipped AR
• Overstock: refurb eMachines M5405 laptop XP2200 512MB 40GB DVD/CDRW WXGA $983 shipped
• Acer TravelMate TM290LMi Notebook $1099.99
• HP Compaq 2100T Notebook $619

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Acer foresees boom in laptop sales

By abaxter | 9/26/2003

Taiwan's largest personal computer maker, Acer, said on Wednesday that notebook PC shipments will rise as much as 40 percent in the fourth quarter, with similar growth next year, as global demand picks up.

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