Acer and AMD are both sponsors of the Ferrari F1 team, and the relationship extends well beyond simply slapping each others logos on respective products.

A superb package for the price, with plenty of power. Only the unambitious battery life lets it down.

Acer's latest Aspire has the familiar Acer look we've come to expect in recent months but with a few nice tweaks.

The Acer Aspire 1692 WLMi is a story of compromises; a +/-/RAM dual layer burner and gigabit Ethernet are offset by Windows XP Home, only 512MB of RAM and the slowest processor and hard disk of the bunch.

Acer was one of the few big name manufacturers that were able to meet our stringent pricing criteria. The submitted notebook, the TravelMate, is not a so bad overall, but it couldn't win out against the smaller manufacturer's abilities to get top components at short notice. Where Acer excels is in after-sales support.

Despite some welcome additions and good components, this Acer notebook is left wanting.

In what is an interesting first time foray into the crowded PDA market, Acer is hedging its bets by releasing both Palm- and Pocket PC-based PDAs. It's a curious gambit to be sure, and we're content to see which PDA branch blossoms while the other withers.

Acer has sacrificed overall power in favour of features with this moderate little system.

A decent notebook but too expensive for the features on offer.

An impressive attempt at a good-value portable PC, but the ergonomics let it down.

The Acer Aspire SA20 is a machine built on a budget and it performs accordingly.

The Acer has all the bells and whistles you're going to need as a student, or mobile office worker; and then some.

The Acer Aspire has a lot of handy multimedia functions that help it work as a desktop replacement/media unit. One of the Aspire’s main selling points is the Arcade feature, which is a Windows Media Centre clone. A button on the notebook fascia opens Arcade, bypassing the Windows OS and enabling all media player functions: DVD, MP3 etc. It works quite well but isn’t as graphically stunning as MCE.

It’s an odd gambit business-wise: align your own brand with that of another. But for Acer, the one-off team-up with Ferrari to brand and produce the Acer Ferrari 3000 notebook has resulted in a stunning product.

Acer’s tiny new Tablet PC, the TravelMate C111 marries the functionality of their previous convertible tablet with the low-power high-performance functionality of the Intel Centrino.

AcerCM Smart Panel FP581

A very-well designed alternative to big beefy computers which make a lot of noise.

The easyStore is basic, but it’s good value and its iSCSI capabilities give it an edge over the competition

Looks and feels good, but performance is more super Aguri than Scuderia.

A reasonable quality display, but few extras for the price.