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