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 ...

I'm a bit spoiled with all the fancy laptops I get to review on a weekly basis, but I can spot a lazy budget laptop from a mile away. I wanted to love the Acer Aspire 3 15. The first laptop I ever ...

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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" ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Performance: Overall this desktop's performance was good, below that of many other models but still powerful enough for tasks such as email, word processing, web browsing, and streaming movies.