The Acer Aspire 3 represents a smart set of trade-offs. It’s easily one of the best-built laptops we’ve tested for under $500, with sturdy Construction and a spacious keyboard and trackpad. While it ...

Managing Editor Josh Goldman is a laptop expert and has been writing about and reviewing them since built-in Wi-Fi was an optional feature. He also covers almost anything connected to a PC, including ...

Acer recently introduced a series of affordable, portable Windows notebooks with low-power processors aimed at balancing performance and battery life. The Acer Aspire E 11 line of notebooks feature 11 ...

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" ...

Windows 8 allows you to format the hard drive and reinstall the operating system without the need for a recovery partition or any recovery media, but the process won't restore any of the Original ...

Just when you thought Acer couldn't come up with another beastly laptop, the Aspire 8920G "Gemstone Blue" series emerges to wow high-definition aficionados. The Aspire 9805WKHi —Acer's first effort at ...

Formatting a hard drive erases all data stored on the device. When Windows is initially installed to a drive, the device is formatted and then the Windows file system is set up on the disk. The Acer ...

Acer, where the hell are you hiding all these refurbished laptop deals? While stores like Best Buy scramble to find affordable laptops with more RAM than the average television, Acer seems to have an ...

The desktop PC market isn't dead, it has just moved to different types of machines for the most part. The desktop computer of today is often literally a desktop. With the all-in-one machines like the ...

The Acer Aspire Go 15 may be one of the best budget laptops you can buy for under $500, but it makes some compromises to get there. This machine shines with light desktop use, but it isn’t built for ...

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