The latest rumor regarding Acer says that Acer is planning to make dual OS netbooks a standard choice for all of its netbooks that have a dual-core processor. Google’s Android OS on the Aspire One D255 isn’t available to everyone, but it will become a standard feature in the future. There’s no reason not to offer it since the OS is cheap and can be easily added.

Android has been seen by notebook manufacturers as a way of providing a near-instant boot solution, though there were previously some issues getting the OS to work right since it wasn’t designed to support a mouse and supported ARM chipsets instead of Intel Atom chips.

Acer has been in the netbook business for years now. Sales of netbooks are slumping as tablets and full notebooks are doing better now that the worst of the economic slump is behinds us. Acer has announced the addition of a new netbook to its line.

The new machine is called the Aspire One AOD255. Acer will offer the machine with either an Atom N450 single-core CPU or a N550 dual-core CPU inside. The machines will both support DDR3 and get 1GB of memory standard. Storage for the machine is to a 250GB HDD.

Acer’s latest All-in-one looks pretty nice. The Aspire AZ3100-U3072 features with a 21.5-inch 1920 x 1080 Full HD display, a 2.0GHz AMD Athlon II 170u processor, and a NVIDIA GeForce 9200 graphics card.

Other features include 3GB RAM, a 500GB hard drive, a webcam, a DVD drive, Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi, an HDMI port, two built-in speakers and it comes pre-loaded with Windows 7 Home Premium for the OS.

AT&T’s line of mobile data plans has expanded today with the company’s first options for prepaid data. With the DataConnect Pass, if you own a notebook that features integrated 3G connectivity, you can pay for a limited amount of data use without having to worry about paying tons if you surfing all over the place.

Still, the rates will carry a premium for that freedom at $15 per 100MB of data over a day, and $30 will get you a week’s pass with 300MB of data, while a full month (at 1GB) will cost $50.

The Acer Aspire One D255 comes with a dual core Intel Atom processor: the Atom N550 netbook chip, each core running at 1.5GHz with 512KB of L2 cache. The N550 will support hyperthreading, so that Windows will report that you have four CPUs under the hood.

That should give you a good performance boost when doing processor-heavy tasks or multitasking. We can’t wait to see how this netbook performs with this processor.

Looking for a netbook with some power that also won’t break the bank? The Acer Aspire 1551-5448 should meet both qualifications, with an 11.6-inch LED-backlit display and a 1.5GHz AMD Turion II Neo K625 CPU. This dual-core machine sports a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 GPU for flawless 1080p playback, and extra memory to boot.

There’s also 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a 320GB hard drive, 802.11n WiFi, HDMI-out and a six-cell, five-hour battery. The whole thing weighs just over three pounds. The price? Only $550.

Acer has some cool new notebooks for the US, like the 18.4-inch Aspire 8943G, which features the company’s new Ethos look with a minimal aluminum body, chiclet keyboard, five speakers and a subwoofer. It’s priced at $1,550 and some specifications include a 1.6GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 graphics chip, 4GB RAM, 500GB hard drive and a Blu-ray player.

The TimelineX series has been updated as well, with the new models featuring low-power Core i3 and i5 processors, and they are less than an inch thick. The Aspire 1830T has an 11.6-inch display, ULV Core i3, 3GB of RAM, 320GB hard drive and will be priced from $600. You can also opt for configurations that include the Core i5, 4GB of RAM and a 500GB drive for a higher price.

Bad news if you have been waiting for the Acer Aspire One 532G netbook. It has been cancelled due to technical problems which made it impossible for Acer to deliver the netbook on time. NVIDIA failed to deliver on the performance front.

Right now we don’t have any other details, but it seems strange that they wouldn’t just push back the date. And a 10″ netbook is a common device that other companies roll out easily.

Acer has another new netbook in their Aspire One range with the launch of the Acer Aspire One D260. The Acer Aspire One D260 features a 10.1 inch LCD display that sports a resolution of 1024 x 600.

The processor is an Intel Atom 1.66GHz N455, with Intel GMA 3150 graphics and 2GB of RAM. It also comes with integrated 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0, Ethernet, a choice of either a 160GB or 250GB hard drive, a three cell battery or a six cell battery. The design is another nice one from Acer.

Acer has officially announced the Aspire One 533. It’s a slick looking netbook that features a 10.1 inch LCD display with a resolution of either 1,280 x 720 pixels or 1024 x 600 pixels and comes with your choice of Intel Atom processors. Either a 1.66GHz N455 Atom processor or a 1.83GHz N475 Atom processor.

Nothing on price or availability yet, but some other specs include up to 2GB of DDR3 RAM, either 160GB or 250GB hard drives, Intel GMA 3150 graphics, WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0, and 3G.

Acer has unveiled an awesome new M5400 desktop machine that ditches Intel for AMD’s Phenom II X4 processor. It also boasts a DirectX 11 compliant ATI Radeon GPU, an AMD 8-Series chipset, the ability to hold up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM and host up to 4TB of storage space.

Aside from that, this machine features a multi-memory card reader, 12 USB ports, Blu-ray and HDMI options alongside ATI’s Eyefinity technology that lets you output the display to a few monitors. The hard drive is located on the front so it can be swapped easily.

Don’t get too excited. It’s not official yet, but it is coming and it will be a follow-up to the Aspire One D250, and will dualboot both Android and Windows. How do we know? Acer’s mobile product manager Martino Mombrini let it slip yesterday to Electricpig.

He said that the chassis of the D260 dualbook will be redesigned so it won’t look like the D250. He also took the opportunity to talk about how they want to launch a Chrome OS netbook, with a Q3 release date “likely.” What do you think? Interested?

Acer has outed a couple of new swanky notebooks in the Acer Aspire Ethos series. These sport some slick new design along with multimedia performance. The Acer Aspire Ethos 8943G and Aspire Ethos 5943G come with your choice of Intel Core i5 or i7 processors, 18-inch 1920 x 1080 and 15.6-inch 1366 x 768 displays, and ATI Mobility Radeon HD5000 graphics.

You’ll also get Dolby Home Theater surround support, with 5.1 output, and the Ethos 5943G as a full five speakers on its own. Storage is up to 1.28TB (two 640GB HDDs) and you can choose between DVD or a Blu-ray drive.

If you’ve ever dreamed of ripping out the guts of an Acer Aspire Timeline 1810 laptop and replacing the CULV processor with a newer, faster, Core i5 chip, then what you get is the Acer Aspire TimelineX 1830T. Some images and details of the notebook have just started leaking and judging by the specifications, it will have been well worth the wait.

No info on pricing just yet, but Acer will be officially announcing this laptop in late March. Some specifications include an 11.6-inch 1366 x 768 pixel display, Intel Core i5-520UM processor with a clock speed ranging from 1.06GHz to 1.86GHz, Wi-Fi, HDMI, S/PDIF, Optional Bluetooth, Optional 3G modem, and a decent 8-hour battery life.

Acer’s new Aspire 3811TZ and Aspire 3811TZG are two of the greenest laptops you can get. Not in actual color, but in eco-friendliness. They fall into the company’s Timeline series and both 13.3-inch laptops have the honor of being singled out by Greenpeace as being completely free of nasty materials.

No PVC (otherwise known as polyvinyl chloride) or BFR (brominated flame retardants) here. These are powered by Intel ULV Core 2 Duo CPUs, so they are more power-efficient than most and last longer per charge. Nothing on availability and price, but it’s likely that one will be over a grand and one under.