YOU’LL BE HARD PRESSED to find a fault in the aesthetics of the Acer One netbook, but Hardware Zone finds it to be overwhelmed. Linpus Lite OS seems to be a bit on the limited side. Spec-wise it looks like most Netbooks based on the Atom. The pricing is also quite a shock, as this netbook sports a $699 price tag – some might call that a high-end price at Acer – so when it comes to value for money, the One isn’t really the one you’ll be looking for. The sentence, errr… review, here.

XBit Labs is continuing its crusade to bring to you all the 19-inch LCDs under the sun. With 19-inchers being the current cheap-as-chips panels, it’s an ideal solution for the SOHO computer, if you’re doing office work. Ergonomics dictate that the widescreen 19-inchers are a wiser choice for most people. Although Samsung takes the top spots, Benq and Asus also have winners in other departments. Go read the review here.

Hardware Canucks must be pretty bored of the current array of gaming benchmarks and have decided to do a mixed review of several graphics cards running under a specific (awesomely popular) game: Age of Conan. This new title uses the Dreamworld Engine to power its 3D World. Contrary to other MMORPGs, AoC can’t be played on just any computer – nor would you want to do that and miss out on the great graphics. So HC has done this little review for your perusal. Footnote: look at page 10 and see just how demanding the game can be, for a MMORPG…

Lee at PC Perspiration is testing the OCZ EliteXStream 1000W PSU. He cracked open the casing on the PSU and dissected the thing to kingdom come. Impressed with the choice of components he was. The PSU isn’t too big so it’ll fit most cases, and will likely support every graphics card combo available right now. Five-star performance, says Lee. Get ready for some heavy technical reading. Here.

Twenty four-inch LCDs are becoming the gamer’s norm, but pricing has been slow in coming down. Benq, however, is pitching the G2400W 1920x1200 display at just $400 (that’s half of what cost a HP here in the office, in February). The pros outweigh the cons, considerably, according to OCC, so it might be a good option for your hi-res movies and gaming. Check it out, here.

Xtremehardware (Italy) is reviewing the Corsair TW3X4G1600C9DHX. That’s just a fancy annoying way of saying four gigs of DDR3-1600. Corsair’s kit performed admirably well, thinks Antonio with an even better price tag. Just 210 €urobucks for the 2x2GB package. There’s a serious drawback, though, his attempts at overclocking fell through. The original is in Italian, naturally, so we’ve submitted it to the usual Googlenglish treatment.

Any day now we’re going to see Nehalem come out and with it, the X58 chipset. Adrian Wong at TechARP has a sneak peek at the upcoming Renaissance mobo based on said chippery. The feature set on these mobos is impressive (maybe too impressive… 14 USB ports?). But according to the stats, you’ll have the chance to stick up to 24GB of DDR3 on these mobos, four x16 PCIe slots – but it isn’t pin-compatible with “older” Intel CPUs. Still, it gives us an idea of the powerhouse it will be. µ