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

Back in the days Windows XP came out, there were thousands of people crying that it’s too heavy, unresponsive and unintuitive to work with. We remember most of them stuck to the original start menu, disabled themes and did countless optimizations to keep the most modern Windows for the time being from eating their memory. As years passed, XP became more stable than ever, but little has changed in terms of interface and the way things work. Then Microsoft came up with Vista, and we all expected to see something innovative. And guess what – we got it, but Microsoft forgot about those people who value system load above all and Vista was hated for its memory usage and compatibility issues that infested the 64bit version. Now that we have Windows 7, the constant need of RAM upgrades is over… or not? …read on