Starting from August 31, AcerCloud Beta will be initially available in France, Germany, Italy, and UK, and users will find it preloaded on their new Acer notebooks and desktops.

ENGADGET: AcerCloud blows into Europe, bringing remote access to your (Acer) laptop

Citing research that consumers prize long battery life over other notebook features, Acer also announced a new series of notebooks that will last more than eight hours on a single charge.

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AcerCloud will be available across the entire range of Acer products, starting from 16 series of Notebooks and Netbooks and 25 Desktops series.

ENGADGET: AcerCloud blows into Europe, bringing remote access to your (Acer) laptop

Acer clear.fi allows media to be managed, stored, shared and enjoyed on any clear.fi enabled devices in the home. clear.fi automatically connects all Acer devices on a network (smartphones, notebooks, desktops, HD media players and storage devices) and then gathers and organizes media files by media type.

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Along with the 15.4-inch 5670 and 20.1-inch 9800 notebooks that we'd already known about, Acer formally unveiled at Computex two other HD-DVD- and Centrino Duo-toting models from the Aspire line that we hadn't seen before: the 17-inch 9510 and 15.4-inch 9110 (pictured).

ENGADGET: Acer Aspire 9510 and 9110 HD-DVD-sporting laptops

Among the products announced were new notebooks from Apple, Samsung, Dell, HP, Asus, Acer, Lenovo, and Sony.

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