Monthly Archives: June 2010

Acer Aspire 521 has a 1.7GHz AMD Athlon 2 Neo K125 processor and ATI Radeon HD 4225 graphics

Left: Acer Aspire 721 / Right: Acer Aspire 521  Let’s be honest. The Acer Aspire 521 doesn’t look all that different from most other 10 inch netbooks Acer has released so far this year. What’s different about this model is … Continue reading

VLC 1.1 media player supports hardware video acceleration

Open source media player VLC is known as a Swiss Army knife of video players. It can handle pretty much any DRM-free video format you can throw at it, from WMV to MKV, with a little H.264, Xvid and DiVX … Continue reading

OLPC XO 1.5 now makes the innovative Sugar OS interface optional

The original OLPC XO Laptop sparked the netbook revolution by showing that laptops could be tiny, cheap, and still pretty useful. But the laptop also broke the mold in a few other ways, by using a spill and dust resistant … Continue reading