Acer Iconia A500 - The showstopper Tablets

Acer Iconia A500 - The showstopper Tablets
There is a new showstopper in town. Acer has just launched a tablet that can make the most luxe of tablets stare in admiration. The Iconia's looks are inspired by Acer's Timeline series of notebooks—brushed aluminium back and dark grey plastic running along the sides. The front has al 0.1 -inch screen running edge to edge. On the sides are located the power, volume and screen orientation lock keys along with a couple of ports such as Micro HDMI and USB. Yes, unlike most tablets, the Iconia A500 has a USB port that eases connection to a memory drive. It can also connect a USB keyboard in case you do not want to use the virtual one.

ACER Aspire TimelineX 4820TG - Power-packed portable

Acer says the 4820TG was created ‘in the pursuit of the extreme'. Is it really everything that Acer claims? Design-wise the Acer isn’t the thinnest laptop we’ve tested but considering its components, its slim size is quite impressive. On the looks front the TimelineX while not stunning is a decent looker but people won’t think ‘that’s a lot of money’ when they see it.

Thankfully, in terms of performance the 4820TG doesn’t pull any punches. With a 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 M520 CPU, 4GB of DDR3 RAM and a dedicated ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 with 1GB of discreet memory, the Acer returned some impressive benchmark results. With scores of 75.51fps and 27fps in Street Fighter IV and World in Conflict the notebook certainly has gaming credentials and moving on to applications, its PCMark Vantage numbers were also quite healthy. Across the board this slim Aspire was much faster than Acer’s own Aspire 8943G desktop replacement machine.

Review - ACER – LIQUID

ACER – LIQUID

REVIEW

When Acer launched its Liquid line months ago the first model was only available in white. Today, the Liquid can be had with a black body though the phone’s specifications haven’t changed at all.On a day-to-day basis the Liquid proved somewhat challenging to use owing to a number of issues. The first has to do with the LCD which struggled with fast finger movements – when swiping our finger across

the screen (to change from one screen to the next), the Liquid seemed unaware that we had even made the gesture. Slowing down our finger movements got the