The specifications of a pending thin and light laptop by Acer have surfaced early, revealing a healthy blend of performance and mobility. The Aspire TimelineX 1830T has an 11.6-inch 1366×768 display, and is Acer’s first Calpella-based ultraportable. As such, travelmate 2200 battery packs a Core i5-520UM processor, which has base clock speed of 1.06GHz and scales up to 1.86GHz with Turbo Boost. It’s said to have two memory slots, but exact configurations aren’t known,travelmate 240 battery pack info.
Despite its small package, it covers the usual breadth of connectivity, complete with HDMI, SPDIF, gigabit Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, optional Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and 3G, a multi-card reader, and three USB ports
. Completing the package, the Aspire TimelineX 1830T offers up to eight hours of battery life and has the same compact form factor and lightweight design seen on Acer’s other ultraportable machines travelmate 6000.

Pricing and release dates are expected to be officially announced toward the end of March,such as BT.00603.006. Here’s to hoping for something under the $700 mark.

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Acer is voluntarily recalling Aspire notebooks(aspire 3000 battery) that contain a defective microphone cable which may overheat and cause the system to shut down.

The Taiwanese vendor said it had been made aware that the AS3410, AS3810T, AS3810TG, AS3810TZ and AS3810TZG models built before 15 September may be at risk of burnout.

“In the affected units the microphone cable may overheat when extreme pressure is applied repeatedly to the left palm rest. As a result, the unit case of aspire one battery may become deformed and the system may malfunction,” said Acer.

Consumers and SMEs can determine if their models are affected by entering a serial number of SNID on a section of its site aspire 3610 battery.

Jeremy Davies, senior partner at analyst Context said Acer was right to be upfront about the issue.

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Hewlett-Packard(HP) has won a highly lucrative and bitterly contested battle against Kodak as the printer supplier for photo kiosks in thousands of Wal-Mart stores, giving HP pavilion dv4 batery a dynamic and long-lasting revenue stream for its ink, toner, and paper. Kodak’s loss inspired its CMO to tweet a message to HP saying, “Shame on your tactics.”

 

 

There is an article from Wall Street Journal:

The HP kiosk rollout, which Wal-Mart says will be completed by this summer, will dislodge existing photo booths made by Kodak, which has provided its kiosks to Wal-Mart since at least 2006.Wal-Mart has 8,416 retail units under various brand names in 15 countries. . . .”These kiosks stay installed for nine or 10 years,” H-P Chief Executive Mark Hurd told investors at a conference in San Francisco on Tuesday morning. HP(hp pavilion dv5 battery) gets “100% supplies connect,” he said, referring to the sales of the additional printing products.

 

Not surprisingly, the Kodak folks were less than pleased with Wal-Mart’s decision but turned their anger toward competitor HP instead of decision-maker Wal-Mart as Kodak CMO Jeffrey Hayzlett accused HP pavilion dv6 battery of cratering its prices on printers while keeping them high on refills, reference to  the Journal story.

“I won’t tweet this, but here’s a little news: how the heck do you think the printer business really operates?”,Hey Jeffrey Said.

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