Ivy Bridge might be the belle of the ball in laptop-land, but small and nimble will always be on the dance card, too. Despite its petite 11.6-inch 1366×768 screen and 2.6-pound frame, Acer’s newly announced Aspire One 725 can still pirouette with a dual-core C-60 AMD processor, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, Radeon HD 6290 graphics, and choice of two colors. Along with the 320 or 500GB hard drives and HD output, those specs should allow you to edit the odd video while still doing the emailing and surfing it was made for.
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Trip the light fantastic with Acer’s 11.6-inch Aspire One 725 Netbook
Any troglodytes out there who didn’t know that AMD’s next APU architecture is inbound? If so, we’re gonna toast marshmallows outside your cave and give you a little pre-brief: Trinity will be a range of processors for “performance” notebooks and desktop PCs, which will continue in AMD’s Fusion tradition of providing both the CPU and discrete-class graphics in a single-chip, power-efficient design
We’re not sure about you, but we wouldn’t call losing over half a billion dollars, “solid results.” Still, we’re not 100 percent ready to rain on AMD’s parade yet. 
Zotac and its XBOXes — just when you think your next dorm room PC couldn’t get any smaller… 
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On , a column about consumer technology. This recent announcement that Dell would not be pursuing new smartphones for the time being following the retirement of its Venue Windows Phone devices raised the spotlight on PC companies — at least those other than Apple — and why they have struggled so mightily in the US smartphone market. Virtually every major PC company, including HP , Dell , Acer , Lenovo , Toshiba and ASUS , has either passed completely on entering the domestic market or released only a handful of models without much carrier support behind them
We’ve been eagerly anticipating the full-on release of BlueStacks’ App Player , so imagine our excitement, now that the software has officially made the leap from its brief alpha stage to “beta-1″ status. 
Just hours after our review round-up of the new GeForce GTX 680 graphics card yesterday, a Dutch site has managed to test multiple cards in different (but invariably exorbitant) SLI modes. One of the strange things we learned during our hands-on was that SLI is complicated by NVIDIA’s GPU Boost technology, which causes individual cards in the same chassis to run at different clock speeds depending on their load and temperature
We’ve already been hands-on with NVIDIA’s first Kepler GPU, but all those fancy features count for nuthin’ if the benchmarks don’t back them up. So do they? 
Globalfoundries has celebrated its third anniversary by announcing that it’s agreed terms with AMD to buy out its remaining stake in the company to go it alone. Whilst Sunnyvale will remain a key customer to the chip foundry, the nuts and bolts of ownership will be wholly in the hands of ATIC. 
Like Hugh Hefner (probably), AMD took a good hard look at its lineup this week and decided it was high time to add a pair of models. Two new Bulldozer-powered FX CPUs will join the pantheon of world-record beating chips in the company’s constant fight against the forces of Intel
