getthefuckouttahere!

Between myself and a few family members who all asked me to help them buy a laptop, I've surprised myself (although it probably shouldn't) that I've ended up with an Acer on each occasion.

Factoring in the 'looks' of the machines, the specification and most importantly the price point they've just been the obvious choice, whether it was a 17" gaming laptop for my brother in law (Blu - Ray Drive, 17" screen, 4Gb Ram, 250Gb HDD, NVidia dedicated graphics with dedicated memory $999) or a simple e-mail browser (Acer Aspire One) it would appear that Acer really are on the ball at the moment.

Reading some of those other articles you link to at the end, I really like the looks of their nettop (Bad word, must think of something better) so I'm guessing Acer will have a good year.

If these are positioned as "like a notebook-not-netbook" (cheap and light) but for people who want a bigger screen, the article does a particularly fine job of not mentioning the resolution anywhere. I'll be astonished if the public is clamouring for a 15" laptop with a 1024x600 screen.

As it happens (rummaging on Acer's site), they all appear to be 1366x768 - so enough either to display 720p content with a black border all around it or stretched content so that it's blurry, whilst being a bad fit for anything but video. Got to love the rush to 16:9.

I'm not grabbed. I'll keep saving for a Vaio P, which doesn't look like costing much more.

(I'll get me coat. Into which a Vaio P would fit, but this won't.)

Also:

> 1,752W each year – equivalent to a 15W bulb lit for 116 days.

FAIL

1,752W / 15W/Hour = 16.8 HOURS

Cor... That will save me 20p a year!

Boffin's obviously need not apply to El Reg...

116.8 HOURS! Doh!

Typo, and too quick on the Post comment button....

Walks off in a huff, mumbling profanities.........

..."the entry levels will cost $599-799 (and presumably around the same in UK pounds)"...

Not if they want to sell many in the UK. In a depression, value wins over style.

Might upgrade to that one later this year then :-)

"The company claims that equivalent, or worse specced, notebooks from Lenovo, Sony and HP cost $2000 or more" ................Geez, you'd think they were talking about Macbooks!

Surely laminar boundary layers transfer heat to the core flow less effectively than turbulent ones?

I'll get my coat...

WiFi laptops when they first came out, used to carry a warning that it should be used more than 30cm away from the body. Placing a WiFi laptop on your lap is just going to heat up your legs (and other precious body parts!) via radiation. Not recommended!

I need 1680 x 1050, not 13768 or whatever. Shame, I was going to get an Acer last time, but ended up with a Dell as Acer advertised in their lit a high spec XP machine, but no-one in the UK could get them (about 3 yrs ago).