http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/ Engadget Comments for Acer announces Aspire Timeline thin'n'lights -- $699 to $899 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 7th 2009 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/
However, surely a little sympathy for Apple at this point would not go amis. They have based their whole position is the market place on high pricing for a stylish product. With their failure rate on the increase and the move towards a browser centric user experience, the question is "What are they going to do ?".

Almost everyone I speak to uses their Apple PC to browse the internet. Every single one of them uses Firefox, many of them are looking forward to Chrome. The argument over which OS is better, Linux or OSX or Windows, is pretty moot. The OS is becoming irrelevant to many, except for gamers, who clearly need Windows.

Many are now seeing Apple losing its appeal with the teeny boppers and the rich kids. Instead, soon Apple will be confine to those who actually want to use OSX for its own unique aspects (whatever those are).

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If you could put the power of a mouse in a game controller then you would be rich.]]>Apr 7th 2009 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 7th 2009 8:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 7th 2009 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/
"you do know this has nothing to do with Apple"

and this has nothing to do with adamo ?

but this does have everything to do with Apple. That is what we do here. We compare stuff with Apple. In this particular instance Acer has produced a really sexy looking product, there are bound to be comparisons made to apple product and questions asked about the legitimacy of the Apple pricing.

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Ok keep doing you, comparing Apple's prices, lol. ]]>Apr 7th 2009 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/
Just one more tick (the 9400M/HD3200 one) and this will totally destroy everyone else. Even at this point, even if it was a lowly clocked ULV, this is my next unit. I'll cry tears of joy if a 9400M or HD3200 is possible but even Intel's option are enough for my non-gaming, ultra portable, long life needs.]]>Apr 7th 2009 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/
although it had absolutely nothing to do with the article.. you got it spot on.]]>Apr 7th 2009 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 7th 2009 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Now we get to see which our market values most, design or function?
Any bets?]]>Apr 7th 2009 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 7th 2009 8:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 7th 2009 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/
Bleak.]]>Apr 7th 2009 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 7th 2009 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 8th 2009 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/
it would be really a good idea for Apple to copy this. I hope that they do, i was looking to pay a little more than $899.]]>Apr 7th 2009 7:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 7th 2009 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/I am proud to live in a fruit-free household]]>Apr 7th 2009 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/
Last time I checked the MacBook Air and Voodoo Envy used Low Voltage cpus, not ULV, so they still do have that performance edge, albeit at a steep cost.]]>Apr 7th 2009 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 7th 2009 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Still very competitive against the X-Slim. Adamo and Air can go do themselves in a little corner.]]>Apr 7th 2009 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 7th 2009 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 7th 2009 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 7th 2009 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 7th 2009 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/
$799? Sold.

]]>Apr 7th 2009 7:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 8th 2009 1:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 7th 2009 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 7th 2009 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 7th 2009 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 7th 2009 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/
Or is the starter price for models with 512mb ram 80gb@4200 hdd with linux?]]>Apr 7th 2009 7:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 7th 2009 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/
Such a pity for apple fan boys, check out the hot babes they are missing... Instead they prefare sucking steve jobs balls. Such gay, fools... I mean spending $1000 for a stupid fruit logo... Thats insane... Wisen up fanboys. Anyway keep sucking only one set of balls, while i contemplate on which blazing hot chick to fuck... Gosh they r just so much. I might just fuck all... ]]>Apr 7th 2009 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 7th 2009 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/
funny though]]>Apr 8th 2009 5:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/
2002 called...they want their laptop designers back.]]>Apr 7th 2009 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/
Long battery life is useful also when playing movies at dim backlight while on a plane. But if it can't keep up with the media...]]>Apr 7th 2009 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 7th 2009 9:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 7th 2009 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 7th 2009 9:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/
Anyway, people are saying how this release effects, or relates to Apple. It does and it doesn't.

These new laptops (or any for that matter) aren't going to hurt apples business. The company has a rock solid consumer base, and, ever since Steve Jobs returned in 97, is a case in point example of flawless marketing (there are actually entire chapters in textbooks written about it). Apple is perhaps THE market driving computer company. That said this does have to do with Apple. You can't even argue that these new Laptops take cues from Apple's offerings. Apple might not have invented multi-tough trackpads, LED backlit displays, glowing logos, or metal/unibody cases, but because of the Buzz that these things get when they are featured on apples new products, the rest of the market starts to adopt them. It's called skimming, they add new unique/revolutionary/expensive features to their products, get tones of media attention and charge an arm and a leg. They wait for the features to saturate the market and come down in price, and then they start all over again. People either love or hate Apple for this.

But really, this thread has nothing to do with Apple. So we are starting to see some Apple influence in Acer, and what's wrong with that? I think it's freakin awesome. Look at these things, with those specs, that style, and at that price, who wouldn't want one. Acer really has one up on all the other PC manufacturers. People are going to want this product, and they are going to be able to afford two.

Lets be stoked about the direction the laptop market is taking, and not bicker which OS to spend the lonely nights with, ahem, me4u2.]]>Apr 7th 2009 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/
I agree with you :)]]>Apr 7th 2009 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/
This particular combination of trade-offs I find very appealing. Especially at these prices. Acer is kicking some serious behind here, of course other PC makers are going to feel the impact most (HP and Dell). I can almost forgive them for not producing any high end TravelMate anymore. Almost.]]>Apr 8th 2009 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/
10 hours with an SSD? Wowwsssa. Consider this tagged.]]>Apr 7th 2009 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 7th 2009 10:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 8th 2009 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/Apr 8th 2009 6:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-announces-aspire-timeline-ultralights-699-to-899/
http://www.acer.com/timeline/style.html
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