Hasta La Gadget!

I love the springtime, because all the little birdies are singing “cheap, cheap, cheap.”

1. You’ll never know what you’ll find on Cheap Geek: today I’m bringing you big savings on a flat-screen monitor from a company you’ve heard of! That never happens. Grab an Acer V Series 17-inch LCD monitor for only $98.24 from Buy.com, and get free shipping. It comes with a 3-year warranty and is even wall-mountable.

2. If you’ve got a summer cruise coming up, this is a great deal. Buy.com is offering the Polaroid t833 waterproof digital camera for $132.95, with free shipping. It’s perfect for pool and beach shots, and the price makes it a fun purchase rather than a serious expense. It has an 8 megapixel resolution, a 3x optical zoom, and a 2.5-inch viewing screen.

3. If you’ve been getting into Skype calling, a good headset could make your computer calls easier. Try this Logitech PC120 headset, which Discount ID is selling for only $9.90.

Bonus Deal: Check out HP’s two-day Monster Sale for discounts on desktops, notebooks, printers, and more.

While Acer had slides aplenty to tout its new Aspire Timeline series of laptops last night, we were a bit short on actual press shots. All is forgiven however, with Acer’s new smooth jazz fusion-infused promo site for the laptop. Not only can you read riveting PR copy on the thing (“Time is your most precious possession, and as with all precious things, you can never have enough”) and check out some press shots, but the soundtrack will take you back to the last time you were watching PBS in between programs — Charlie Rose is on at 11PM, just in case you were wondering.

Read – Aspire Timeline
Read – Full spec sheet

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Acer’s Aspire Timeline gets its own splash page and press shots, like a real laptop originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In addition to Timeline and the 11.6-inch Aspire One, Acer decided today to announce new laptops much in the way Nikon and other camera makers roll out their PMA lineup — in groups of eight or more. By our count, we’ve got at least ten different models here.

• Aspire 5935 and 8935: The 18.4-inch 8935 laptop can output a 1080p resolution, True 5.1 channel surround sound and houses up to two HDDs totaling 1TB capacity. The 5935 meanwhile can hold just one 500GB HDD and doesn’t do full HD. Both support up to 4GB DDR3 memory, biometric fingerprinting, 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.0, and optional WiMAX.
• Aspire 3935: A 13.3-inch ultra portable with 1366 x 769 resolution LED-backlit LCD and Intel Core 2 Duo / GM45 express chipset. Features built-in Wi-Fi / WiMAX, up to 4GB DDR3 RAM, biometric fingerprints, and 8 hours of use with a 8-cell battery.
• eMachines D, E, and G series (pictured): 16 x 9 aspect ratio LCD. Available with Intel Celeron or Pentium processors for all models, plus option for AMD Athlon with E and G series. 14-inch D and 17-inch G have up to 4GB DDR2 RAM, 500GB HDD, while the 15.6-inch E series can feature up to 5GB. All of them boast a wide keyboard, WiFi, webcam, DVD drive, a 5-in-1 card reader, and Windows Vista SP1.
• Gateway EC series: Lightweight and less than 1-inch thick. The 13-inch netbook has an LED backlit screen with 16 x 9 aspect ratio, Dolby Sound Room, SSD, DDR3 RAM, HDMI out, optional 3G and Bluetooth, webcam, and capacitive hotkeys on top of the keyboard.
• Gateway 10.1-inch LT20, 11.6-inch LT30: Both are under 2.62 pounds, boast built-in WiFi, Webcam, optional Bluetooth and 3G modules, 5-in-1 card reader, and up to 160GB HDD. The touch pad supports multi-gesture features and reportedly it comes with a “cool protective bag” — yay?
• Gateway ID series: Available in glossy midnight blue or night sky with a matte interior and silver-colored touchpad. It’s got an 15.6-inch LED backlit screen, slot-in DVD drive, webcam with a curtain (for privacy, obviously), mult-gesture touchpad, and capacitive hotkeys on top of the keyboard.

There’s still got plenty of missing pieces here, such as pricing and availability for anything here, but one thing’s for sure: we are thoroughly overwhelmed by the sheer number of new offerings.

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Plethora of new Acer Aspires, eMachines, Gateway laptops and netbooks unveiled in one fell swoop originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We just got all friendly with Acer’s new Timeline lineup, and while we couldn’t technically grasp at the hours upon hours of battery life they’re promising, we could definitely feel the palpable presence of longevity. The laptops are very much an interesting blance; they’re thin, but not astonishingly thin, they’re heavy for their looks (especially the 15.3-inch), and they’re styled aggressively in some ways while incredibly conservatively in others. We’re not sure we’re sold on the funky trackpad setup — the right and left buttons aren’t articulated, are sunken below the level of the touchpad, and are rather hard to touch — but we like that Acer is really embracing multitouch here. The chiclet keys have a lot of great travel to them, but the board overall felt a little cheap and “prototype-ey” — it may very well be a prototype.

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Acer Timeline hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Some more tidbits from the Acer event: new all-in-ones. The eMachines EZ1600 (pictured) boasts a 18.5-inch 16:9 screen and up to 720p resolution, an Intel Atom N270 processor with 945GSE chipset, 2 slots of SO DIMM memory, up to 160GB HDD, DVD-RW, Wi-Fi and a card reader. No price or availability, but you’ll be able to pick one up in either silver or black. On the classier side of things, we’ve got Acer Aspire Z5600 AIO with a 24-inch multitouch display that outputs a 1080p picture. It’s got the “latest generation of Intel,” up to 2TB hard disk space, a TV tuner, webcam and DVD/Blu-ray writer combo drive. Color us intrigued, but we’ll await judgment until we see some price points — if the Timeline‘s any indication, we might be in a for a pleasant surprise.

Continue reading Acer’s 18-inch eMachines EZ1600, 24-inch multitouch Aspire Z5600 all-in-ones unveiled

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Acer’s 18-inch eMachines EZ1600, 24-inch multitouch Aspire Z5600 all-in-ones unveiled originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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