Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" ...

Acer has lifted the lid on a new addition to its Aspire tablet range at the IFA trade show in Berlin. The Acer Aspire 8 W is a budget slate running Microsoft's Windows 8.1 operating system, that comes ...

The affordable, fully featured Aspire M5 has a touch screen, but also throwback features like a DVD drive. Consider this your safe Windows 8 laptop bet. Scott Stein Editor at Large I started with CNET ...

Acer’s Aspire S7 Windows 8 ultrabook will be available in 11.6- and 13.3-inch sizes with 1080p touchscreens. The 13.3-inch version will have a glossy layer of glass on the outside of its lid. Acer’s ...

The Acer Aspire S7 may be the most powerful laptop I’ve ever used. It features a speedy 1.9 GHz Intel Core i7-3517U processor, 4GB of RAM, a 256GB solid state disk, and a 13.3 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel ...

Acer has been doing very interesting things with their Windows 8 machines, and the Acer Aspire R7 is their boldest product to date. The Aspire R7 would look at home on the set of Star Trek, as Acer ...

Computer makers are having to reconsider laptops design to coincide with the new features of Windows 8. Acer has just shown off its new offering, and it is clear that the company had the Windows 8 ...

We’ve been playing with Windows 8 for a while now—but not yet on a machine designed from the start to run on the new OS. Next week, when Acer’s Aspire S7 ultrabook launches, all that will change. Is ...

If you're after a no-nonsense Windows 8 experience and need a notebook to make it all happen, you'll want to have a peek at the new Acer Aspire V5 Series revealed by the company today. This series of ...

Acer has not only launched new 2-in-1 products today, but also convertible notebooks and a new Iconia 8-inch tablet. The Aspire R 13 and Aspire R 14 are new convertible notebooks that combine ...

It's not quite the multitouch marvel, but Acer's new 11.6-inch Aspire Timeline AS1810TZ does at least share the Windows 7 underpinnings of the company's other new models today. The CULV ultraportable ...

Acer has configured the BIOS supervisor password so that it is only eight characters long. After you enter the password, the BIOS automatically converts it to all capital letters, which means you must ...