New Laptops in 2012

Acer’s been doing the dual-boot, Android / Windows thing on some of its netbooks for a little while now, but it looks to be branching out into a bit of new territory with its new Aspire One E100 model. It’s more or less the same as the D255, but Acer is pitching this one directly at the education market, and it’s added some things like a special rubber coating and the potential for school branding — not to mention a slew of pre-installed education software — to make it a bit more attractive to schools and students alike. Otherwise, you can expect the usual 10.1-inch display, an unspecified Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive, and a promised eight hours of battery life.