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Acer's Aspire One trims the fat, upcoming slimmer model pictured
Acer's Aspire One trims the fat, upcoming slimmer model pictured
At just over an inch thick it's hard to think of a little laptop like Acer's Aspire One as being chubby -- but that doesn't stop us from looking longingly at other, skinnier options in the pipeline. Apparently aware of our wandering eye, Acer is set to release a thinner model that, according ...
 Another Acer Aspire One
Another Acer Aspire One
macles.blogspot.com — Is Acer going the way of ASUS by releasing countless iterations of their netbook? Probably not, but... there will be at least one additional model as shown in the pictures below. You'll notice it is thinner than current models, which indicates a SSD ... (more) Another Acer Aspire One
Acer Hornet NVIDIA Ion nettop leaks
Acer Hornet NVIDIA Ion nettop leaks
slashgear.com — Leaked Acer slides suggest the company is planning a high-end nettop device that would use NVIDIA’s Ion... graphics chipset. The Acer Hornet is a small form-factor computer that would use either a dual or single-core Intel Atom processor, together with ... (more) Acer Hornet NVIDIA Ion nettop leaks
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Acer Aspire One Slims Down, Slightly [Unconfirmed]
Gizmodo — ... has recently introduced a 10-inch Aspire One (a form factor we've presumed to become the Aspire One's new standard), a few details has surfaced on a new, slimmer version of the netbook. Given the slim design, this particular Aspire One model is presumed to be an SSD system—one that reintroduces an SD slot into the design for easy and cheap storage expansion. We know, that's not a lot of information. We'll keep an eye out for more deets. [macles via Engadget] ...

New slimline Acer Aspire One slimline pics, alleged specs leak
Engadget — ... After seeing the tiniest bit of evidence this morning of a slimmer Acer Aspire One, an anonymous reader has bragged to netbooknews.de that he's gotten some hands-on time with the laptop, and brought along some purported pics of it as evidence. Dimension-wise, we're looking at 0.95 inches thick, 10 inches wide, 7.28 inches deep. As for specs, it's pretty much what you'd expect from a netbook: 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 with 945GME graphics, 1024 x 600 resolution, 1GB RAM, 802.11 a/b/g, a 3-cell battery that's said to last a discouraging 3 hours or less, and "apparently" ...

Slimmer Acer Aspire One pops up in the FCC
Engadget — ... we've seen in the past few days -- it looks like that rumored slimmer model with the weird hinge VGA and Ethernet ports is in fact real and headed for our fair shores. No hard specs on this mysterious stranger just yet except for the presence of the 3G SIM slot, but the model number Z68 AO530 strongly suggests that there's an Atom Z530 lurking in there instead of the usual N270. We'll let you know if we find out anything else -- hit the read link for some more pics and oodles of FCC test data. ...

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Acer prepping thinner Aspire One netbookDV Hardware
Macles got its hands on pictures of a thinner Aspire One netbook from Acer: You'll notice it is thinner than current models, which indicates a SSD only model. Another clue is the return of the SD Expansion slot. The software based functionality of it was only used in Linux, so unlike with the ...