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Eight inches of Windows 8: hands on with Acer's Iconia W3 tablet

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This morning Acer became the first company to announce a Windows 8 tablet in a smaller 8-inch form factor, and we've checked out the Iconia W3 for ourselves. At 1.1 pounds in weight and 11.43 mm thick, Acer's Atom-powered tablet is a little bulkier than the likes of the iPad mini, but it's by far the most diminutive device to date that runs Windows 8 in full. It also costs just $379.

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Intel may phase out the Atom brand to shed the specter of netbooks

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Intel's new Haswell Core processors may currently be in the spotlight, but its well-worn Pentium and Celeron brands may also be getting a boost — at Atom's expense. According to a report from CNET, some versions of Intel's new Silvermont Atom processors, low-power ARM competitors destined for Windows PCs and Android systems, will ditch the Atom alias for Pentium and Celeron branding. CNET says the Atom chips headed to tablets will probably not be switched to Pentium or Celeron, but the move...


Acer Aspire R7 review

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I think I'm going blind. I've never had glasses, and always kind of liked being the guy with perfect vision, but I'm pretty sure I'm going blind. Ten times a day I catch myself craning my neck toward my laptop screen because a website's text is...

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Cracking Kinect: the Xbox One's new sensor could be a hardware hacker's dream

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One of the biggest upgrades to Microsoft's recently unveiled Xbox One console is the new and improved Kinect: the device now features a higher fidelity sensor, a larger field of view compared to the original, and better skeletal tracking. This could have some potentially cool applications when it comes to watching TV on your console or playing games, but, like the original Kinect, the most exciting new ideas will likely come from outside of...

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