In December 2009 we wrote quite a lot about the upcoming new Acer laptops from the famous Aspire 8942G desktop replacement series. Nowadays they are ready for sale and buyers will soon see them in shops worldwide, but we had a chance for a quick sneak peak at one of them and we managed to run a few benchmarks on it. Mostly related to the video card, as it is based on Core i7 820QM processor, which you already heard about a lot. The most interesting about those new notebooks from Acer is that they are the first to use the newest DirectX 11 mobile graphics card from ATI – Mobility Radeon HD5850. …read on

There s certain degree of objectivity editors have to keep to retain their stature of trusted source when they start to get more and more readers. There are only a handful of exceptions in the world of IT hardware and right now one of them is much too active to miss him in what we decided to be a simple true/false review of current NVIDIA position. Charlie from semiaccurate started to sound more than angry lately and while he still keeps the politeness in his forum posts, most of his articles started to look like a regular forum troll postings. In fact – an ATI fanboy postings, and one of those that don’t have much technical knowledge and substitute it with pure hate. There is also certain degree of envy in our words – not everyone can sound as deluded as Charlie Demerjian while keeping his readers (he even gets more and more) but we certainly prefer to stay objective instead of taking the one way road. Because you know that once you take that road there is only a couple of times you get to fail before you get lost – even Neo can only dodge a few bullets before he gets hit, right? We won’t run Charlie’s article analysis here, but all in all we think he has someone over TSMC, as most of his accurate postings seems to be either about chip manufacturing, or anti-NVIDIA PR analyzes. The rest… well, the rest of the ATI/NVIDIA stuff  is just too much crap to be analyzed. Most of it is included in one simple form with 10 points below: …read on

The German website notebookjournal.de just released a review of HD5650 and Core i7-720QM equipped notebook which shows the performance of the new ATI mobile graphics card codenamed Madison, which we expect to see in most Acer models coming in January and may be many other in the next few months. The review lacks much data about the graphics card and it’s prone to speculations, but it shows that HD5650 will run at 600 MHz core and 800 MHz memory (600 MHz DDR) and it is equipped with 1 GB of GDDR3 memory. …read on

We started to look like Acer PR distibution company, but you’ll have to sit quite and leave no objections about it, because we are releasing hot information and there will be one more article about their notebooks. Right now we are talking about new 17-inch model – the Aspire 7740G, which would be based on the new Intel PM55 chipset and equpped with either Core i7 620M, Core i5 430M or Core i3 330M processors and ATI Mobility Radeon HD5650 graphics card with 1 GB GDDR3 video memory.  More details below. …read on

Acer never stop to amaze us how fast they move once they decide something fits their politics. Acer does its job well and hits the market with innovations the moment they are available, and it is how the company works. And it works well given the fact they are 2nd largest PC supplier in global market, even as they are heavily underrepresented in North America (read USA and Canada). Which also means they have a huge impact on any market, at least as much as HP and Dell. There are no wonders behind this – the company doesn’t sell its name but hardware. Even if we throw out the past examples, they are really the first known manufacturer that not only is rumored to have a ATI Mobility Radeon HD5650 notebooks as we wrote here, but the first to use the new Core i5 and Core i3 processors from Intel, as you will see later in this article. By the way – both i3 and i5 are under NDA until January, but you can find details in Wikipedia, as usual, so we wont give credits to other reviewers about copying the stuff. Before we continue with the list of 8942Gs, check this out: …read on