Acer Unveils New Breed of Windows Hybrids, Cheap Android Tablet

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Acer today unveiled the Aspire R7 laptop, a Windows PC with a unique hybrid design: The screen is attached to the keyboard on a special neck hinge that lets the user bring the display closer for touch. The company also introduced a smaller Ultrabook hybrid and a standalone Android tablet. The hinge of the R7 is called the Ezel, and besides letting users bring the 15.6-inch screen in close, it can also flip over in a "presentation" mode to show the display to someone sitting across from you. When you want a tablet experience, it can fold down completely flat, above the keyboard. SEE ALSO: New Acer Laptop Looks Like the Enterprise From 'Star Trek' Read more... More about Android , Acer , Windows 8 , Hybrid , and Tech Read more »

Acer Debuts Its iCloud Clone, AcerCloud

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LAS VEGAS — Not content with just being a PC and tablet maker, today at CES 2012 Acer announced a cloud service for its devices. Dubbed AcerCloud, it’ll enable easy sharing of documents and photos on Acer devices, but in a limited way. Unlike Apple’s iCloud , which is primarily designed to sync media in the background, AcerCloud is set up to enable automatic sharing of photos and documents, but only for 30 days Read more »

Acer Unveils Aspire S5, ‘World’s Thinnest’ Ultrabook

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LAS VEGAS — Ultrabooks , compact and powerful Windows laptops, were promised to be big at CES 2012 , and the show just saw Acer draw first blood in the category. Today the PC maker unveiled the Aspire S5, which Acer claims is the world’s thinnest Ultrabook. That may be true, but unveilings are happening fast and furious at CES, and the S5 could lose the crown at any time. Read more »