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• London Olympics 2012: Sally Pearson becomes Acer Australia brand ambassador

  By Nermin Bajric | 31 May, 2012 12:04

  PC and components vendor, Acer, has named world champion and Olympic hurdler, Sally Pearson, as its Australian brand ambassador.

• New wave of ultrabooks to include 30 touchscreen models, Intel says

  By Agam Shah | 31 May, 2012 04:05

  A fresh crop of ultrabooks sporting Intel's latest "Ivy Bridge" Core processors will start to go on sale next month, including 30 models with touchscreens, Intel said Thursday.

• Windows 8, ultrabooks to get top billing at giant trade show

  By Michael Kan | 30 May, 2012 22:05

  Windows 8 and ultrabooks are expected to take center stage at the Computex trade show in Taipei next week, as industry giants Microsoft and Intel try to develop products that can compete better against Apple's iPad.

• In pictures: Acer's 15in Ultrabook, the Aspire Timeline Ultra M3

  By Elias Plastiras | 29 May, 2012 15:18

  Acer is the first vendor so far to come out with a 15in Ultrabook that also uses discrete graphics; and they're not just any old graphics either. The Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 uses a brand spanking new NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M graphics adapter that can even handle the likes of Battlefield 3. You could say it's a gamers Ultrabook!

• PRODUCTS: latest from Acer and ASUS

  By Nermin Bajric | 25 May, 2012 12:22

  Acer adds the A510 to its tablet range and releases a 15.6-inch notebook, ASUS unveils multimedia notebook.

• Preview: Acer Iconia A510

  By Ross Catanzariti | 17 May, 2012 10:22

  The Acer Iconia Tab A510 promises 15 hours of battery life.

• Apple to launch cheaper MacBook Air this year

  By Ashleigh Allsopp | 09 May, 2012 23:16

  Apple will launch a cheaper MacBook Air in the third quarter of 2012, according to a report.

• Acer Q1 profit falls by 72 per cent

  By Michael Kan | 25 April, 2012 20:52

  Taiwanese PC maker Acer's first-quarter net profit dropped 72.1 per cent year-on-year, while revenue slumped 11.4 percent.

• Acer ships desktops with quad-core Ivy Bridge chips

  By Agam Shah | 24 April, 2012 02:40

  Acer on Monday started shipping desktops that are among the first PCs available with Intel's third-generaton Core processors, code-named Ivy Bridge.

• Acer ranks first in unit shipments and market share

  By Nermin Bajric | 29 March, 2012 12:45

  PC and components vendor, Acer has ranked first in IDC’s APAC quarterly PC tracker for Q4 2011 in terms of unit shipments and market share.

• Acer announces first quad-core tablet Iconia Tab A510

  By Agam Shah | 23 March, 2012 04:07

  Acer has announced the Iconia Tab A510 tablet with Android 4.0, joining the growing market of device makers releasing quad-core tablets.

• Intel tantalises consumers with Ultrabook Temptations (+ slideshow)

  By Hafizah Osman | 21 March, 2012 17:47

  Intel tantalises consumers with ‘Ultrabook Temptations’

• What do you get with an ultrabook?

  By Agam Shah | 13 March, 2012 06:14

  A new category of thin and light Windows 7 laptops called ultrabooks has emerged in the past few months, but questions remain about whether the time is ripe to buy or to wait for Windows 8 models with features like touchscreens.

• Acer pushes Ultrabook to a 15-inch display, DVD

  By Melanie Pinola | 10 March, 2012 13:09

  Acer has launched one of the first 15-inch Ultrabook laptops to date, the Aspire Timeline Ultra M3, at CeBIT. The Timeline Ultra M3 offers several hardware features of mid-size mainstream laptops -- such as an optical drive, discrete graphics card, and large 15-inch display, but in a thin Ultrabook package.

• PRODUCTS: Latest from HP, Acer, BenQ, WD, Hitachi GST, OpenText, SolarWinds, Websense, Trend Micro, and Webroot

  By Nermin Bajric | 06 March, 2012 10:17

  Latest products from HP, Acer, BenQ, WD, Hitachi GST, OpenText, SolarWinds, Websense, Trend Micro, and Webroot