http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/26/acer.sees.win.7.as.modest.help/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/aceraspire3935-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Acer chief Gianfranco Lanci told the press on Thursday that Windows 7 has had a noticeable but small impact on sales. The executive estimates that holiday PC sales should jump about 25 percent versus last year, when the economic crash hurt sales, but that they should only be flat compared to this summer. Much of the forecast was calculated after gauging the feature set early on.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/26/acer.sees.win.7.as.modest.help/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/23/gartner.sees.pc.sales.back.up.in.2009/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/aceraspireoned250-android.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The economy has bounced back quickly enough that the computer business will have seen a slight boost this year, Gartner said in a study published on Monday. The analyst group estimates that shipments will have overall climbed 2.8 percent in 2009 to about 298.9 million computers. It marks a sharp reversal from a forecast as late as September that had computers sinking 2 percent. A recovery of th... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/23/gartner.sees.pc.sales.back.up.in.2009/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/19/dell.hurt.by.acer.corporate.fears/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/delladamoxps.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Dell today posted disappointing results for its latest quarter ended in October. The company saw its year-over-year revenue drop 15 percent to about $12.9 billion and its net income drop even further, falling 54 percent to $337 million. Both decreases were blamed on poor results both in the public sector and in its staple home PC business, where its shipments were up about 17 percent compared to... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/19/dell.hurt.by.acer.corporate.fears/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/17/acer.liquid.a1.smartphone.due.in.uk.this.month/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/acerliquid1intro.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Acer's first Android-powered smartphone, the Liquid A1, will be out in the UK in late November, according to UK electronics retailer Clove. The phone will, as previously reported, run on a detuned, 768MHz version of the Qualcomm Snapdragon instead of the full-blown 1GHz CPU.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/17/acer.liquid.a1.smartphone.due.in.uk.this.month/ Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:05:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/17/reliability.study.has.apple.4th.place/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/asusul30.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />A new study published by SquareTrade revealed that the smaller name brand notebook manufacturers are usually more reliable than their larger rivals. Of the top nine, ASUS has the lowest tracked breakdown rate with fewer than 10 percent of its notebooks failing in the past two years. Toshiba, Sony and Apple also have better-than-average performance and are either just over or under the same figur... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/17/reliability.study.has.apple.4th.place/ Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/13/asus.set.to.release.173.inch.3d.notebook/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/asus3dnotebook.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />ASUS will release a 17.3-inch 3D notebook, the G72GX, early in 2010 with high-spec features such as an Intel Core i7 CPU, GeForce GTS 160M graphics, 4GB of memory and two 320GB hard drives, according to Chinese daily Digitimes. Before that, however, the computer maker will unveil a smaller, 15.6-inch version known as the G51J3D that should otherwise have near-identical specifications.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/13/asus.set.to.release.173.inch.3d.notebook/ Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/11/apple.makes.rare.inroads.into.euro.share/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/macbookpro17-mattesm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Acer and Apple are the two primary computer makers gaining share in Europe at a time when most are bleeding sales, Gartner revealed in a research note today. Acer extended its lead in the summer to 28.3 percent of the Western European market, or 4.73 million PCs, based primarily on its netbooks and full-size budget PCs. However, Apple was one of the few others to gain significant share and was o... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/11/apple.makes.rare.inroads.into.euro.share/ Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/10/acer.aspire.to.reach.record.low.price/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/aceraspire4535.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Best Buy this morning promised to have the least expensive full-size notebook ever in advance of Black Friday. Starting Wednesday, the retailer plans to sell an Acer Aspire notebook for $250, or below the price of many netbooks. The exact model is unnamed but should have a 2.2GHz Celeron, 2GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive and Windows 7.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/10/acer.aspire.to.reach.record.low.price/ Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/04/abi.says.netbooks.still.on.track/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/aceraspireoned250-android.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Netbooks are still set to top nearly 35 million units by the end of the year, ABI said today. The prediction is similar to that from the start of the year and asserts that the mini portables will form a significant portion of the entire PC business. ABI doesn't predict market share but says that Acer, ASUS and Samsung produced 74 percent of all netbooks last year.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/04/abi.says.netbooks.still.on.track/ Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/02/acer.aspire.8940.has.quad.core.gts.250m/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/aceraspire8935-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Acer chose a rare Monday evening launch for an update to its Aspire notebooks. Acting as the new flagship, the 8940 takes the lead from the 8935 and use the same 18.4-inch screen but with a much faster 1.6GHz Core i7 in place of the Core 2 Quad. It further brings considerably newer GeForce GTS 250M graphics to better drive the 1080p display and, as with other Acer updates, replaces Vista with Wi... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/02/acer.aspire.8940.has.quad.core.gts.250m/ Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:50:00 GMT