Because it boots up in a few seconds, rather than thinking of the Acer as a mini laptop it might make more sense to view it as a beefed-up personal digital assistant, such as an old PalmPilot or Psion, but with a better screen and a proper keyboard.

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Acer, a crosstown rival in Taipei and first responder to Asustek's innovation, has since surpassed Asustek to become the number one company in the mini-laptop category.

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Impress got their hands on an unofficially released MSI Wind PC (the mini-PC, not the low-cost laptop) and subjected the 1.33GHz Atom processor to a suite of standard tests.

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Mini tablets might complete a takeover of that category, creating headroom for laptop sales to revive.

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So now, at the end of each day, she downloads the images from her camera to her Apple Macbook Pro laptop, and transfers them again to a Western Digital 250GB mini hard drive.

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