What happened to the aspire 1800 series?

I had a Acer aspire 1804. I sold it. Now I have a aspire 5102.

I noticed on the acers website. They don't have the 1800 series anymore.
Not even the drivers.

No big thing, but the 1804 was a very good desktop replacement and wonders why they still don't sell it?

Only sold it because it was to big & heavy and battery life was only 1hr. But like I said it's a desktop replacement. Funny cause my 5102 is more powerfull.

 

I looked into buying a 1800 on ebay and it looks as if it has the exact same form factor as the aspire 9500 series which I have one of them, I think acer also discontinued the 9500 series. the only differences being the 1800s use ineffiecient pentium 4 HTs and 9500s use pentium Ms and celeron Ms

 

What do you mean by ineffiecient Pentium 4? I didn't see a problem with speed on mines.

 

Intel P4 < Intel Core Duo < Intel Core 2 Dueo < Intel's next processor.

Manufactures continue to update their hardware models and profiles based upon the processor releases of AMD and Intel. This is common, just like you won't see the same model number or revision with older hardware as they do with new.

Take for instance my Acer 5672Wlmi, it has the latest name over the 5670 which has a slower GPU. They will continue to change and adapt the name based upon future hardware releases. This is common.

You won't see old P4's in notebooks anymore, they are not designed for laptops (unless you get the M version's as listed above). 1 hr of battery life is just pathetic in my opinion, but that's just me.


--ssx--

 

acer's naming scheme isn't "new stuff comes out make it a higher number"

they offer 2 or more different configurations with a higher number being more powerful. for example: acer ferrari 4005 has 2ghz processor and 100gb HD while ferrari 4006 has 2.2ghz processor and 120gb hard drive.

they usually bump it up 10 like the core duo 8204 is now the core 2 duo 8216 (supposedly)

dell however put core 2 duo's in all their laptops without changing the names. kind of strange if you ask me

and this post was totally off topic haha

 

Your older pentium 4 was a netburst processor as it is the architexture intel in phasing out, netburst processors have a high clockrate but a super long instruction pipeline that makes them much less effecient then the Pentium M core architecture that can process more instructions per clock cycle, that is why AMD was wining in the speed wars but finally the core duo 2 X6800 took back the performance crown from amd.