Sure, Acer's newly-refreshed Predator gaming rig is all well and good if you like your PCs orange and menacing, but less adventuresome folks need PCs too, and Acer's more than happy to cater to them as well with a range of decidedly more understated offerings.
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Naturally Acer's taken to skinning Gingerbread a bit here -- there's an assortment of Acer widgets as well as that retooled homescreen you're seeing in the picture above.
What's funny is that although Acer's long been pitched as the higher-end brand, its 14-inch Timeline X laptop, the AS4830, starts with similar specs.
Analyst Vincent Chen of Taipei's Yuanta Securities says that Acer's recent innovations may help reverse the company's decline, but that much more work remains to be done before it is out of the woods.
That's the domain of Aymar de Lencquesaing, Acer's head of mobile phone products.
Processor loyalties could be split across the wider group, though: ASUS is said to be spreading the love by showing both an Intel-based tablet as well as one using NVIDIA's ARM-powered Tegra line, but Acer's previously rumored tablet is poised to go the Intel-only route, and Toshiba's may exist solely in a TI OMAP-based ARM camp.
Dell's Latitude 10, the ASUS Tablet 810, Acer's Iconia W510 and W700, Lenovo's ThinkPad 2, the HP Envy x2 and Samsung's Series 5 were all there.
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Acer's channel business model is instrumental to the company's success, while its multi-brand approach integrates Acer, Gateway, and Packard Bell brands in worldwide markets.
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The onslaught of Apple's iPad and a host of imitators have cut deeply into Acer's revenue, which has slipped from second to fourth place among PC vendors amid stalled sales.
Enhanced models of Acer's flagship Aspire series of the tablet-laptop hybrid were also unveiled Monday.
But tying phones to its computers won't necessarily make Acer's phones into iPhone killers.
Acer's newest monitors are available in two sizes - 21.5-inch (H226HQL) and 23-inch (H236HL).
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Either machine, too, can be configured with Acer's InstantOn technology, which promises 1.5-second resume times.
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For product price, specifications and availability in each country, please contact Acer's local operations.
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Introducing the first two handsets of Acer's 2013 line-up: the Liquid E1 and the Liquid Z2.
Acer's Iconia, a touch-screen laptop with two displays where one replaces a keyboard, won the top honors.
While most machines pack AMD chipsets, Acer's model runs an Ivy Bridge CPU and offers 500GB of storage.
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Acer's latest desktops sport an aesthetically-pleasing black chassis that provides handy cable management.
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He also wants to tie Acer's phones to its computers via software that will allow for easy transfer of data and files.
In 2001 when he took charge of the ITGO, he has been one of the core members of Acer's top management team.
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That said, we actually like Acer's neat webpage and media carousel widget.
Recent speculation, however, has pegged Packard Bell as Acer's target, although it has yet to get as official as Lenovo with its intent.
If you recall, we had a chance to try out Acer's Aspire Timeline Ultra M3, a 14-inch Ultrabook also packing NVIDIA Kepler graphics.
The overhead lighting at Acer's event resulted in quite a bit of glare getting in the way of our photos, as you can see.
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Like the Liquid Gallant Duo, the Solo's public presence was short-lived, as the user manual (linked below) has since been pulled from Acer's website.
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Gigabyte really talked up the sports car stylings of the X11, but this machine is clean and sleek rather than loud and gaudy like Acer's Ferrari-branded range.
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Well, Acer's TravelMate B1113 is actually brand new and, as you dig a little deeper into the specs, this one sounds more like a rather hefty netbook.
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' says Allen Burnes, Vice-President of Acer's THBG division.
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Just last month, Acer's Liquid Gallant Duo teased itself for preorder on the Expansys website, which promised to be an affordable Android 4.0 smartphone for those in need of dual-SIM capabilities.
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