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Acer has announced that its popular and ultra-powerful Ferrari One notebook will soon rev stateside, and it'll be packing both plenty of hardware muscle and Microsoft's latest operating system Windows 7. At 3.31 pounds, the Acer Ferrari One notebook ... doesn't weigh much more than a standard netbook. However, not only does it boast a larger screen than most netbooks (an 11.6-inch high definition LED backlit display) -- it also packs far more under the hood with a dual dual-core 1.2 GHz Athlon 64 X2 processor, 4GB of DDR2 667 MHz memory, a 250GB hard drive, and an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3200 ... (view more)

Consumerist.com has posted what appears to be an AOL customer service manual that details how company representatives are expected to handle users who wish to cancel their service. AOL phone reps are allegedly required to wear customers down into ... keeping their accounts by employing various questionable tactics -- including assaulting the user with a barrage of annoying sales pitches and asking invasive personal questions to get more information on file. One of the instructions listed in the AOL employee document: "KEEP DIGGING!!" AOL has declined to verify the legitimacy of the manual posted ... (view more)