Acer unveils Ion-based nettop, confirms new netbooks
Posted April 9, 2009 – 2:32 pm in: AcerAcer captivated a columnist accident in New Jersey this black area the aggregation apparent about 20 new products, including several items we’ve been audition about for weeks. At the top of my account are the AspireRevo nettop, which is a baby anatomy agency desktop PC with an Intel Atom CPU and an NVIDIA GPU and Acer’s new 10.1 inch and 11.6 inch Aspire One mini-laptops.
The AspireRevo is the aboriginal computer congenital about the NVIDIA Ion platform, which bundles an Intel Atom processor with a college achievement NVIDIA cartoon processor. In this case, the AspireRevo has a 1.6GHz Intel Atom 230 CPU and a GPU that NVIDIA claims is able abundant to playback Blu-Ray movies or avant-garde video amateur like Call of Duty 4. NVIDIA says it offers cartoon achievement that’s 5-10 times faster than what you’d get from the chip cartoon band-aid Intel users for a lot of Atom CPUs.
The nettop aswell has up to 4GB of RAM, up to 250GB of harder drive space, HDMI and VGA outputs, 6 USB ports, and a 4-in-1 agenda reader. It runs Windows Vista Home Premium or Basic and should be accessible this summer. No chat on appraisement yet.
Acer’s new netbooks and mini-laptops all appear in 10.1 inch and 11.6 inch sizes. No 9 inch models were appear today (despite a contempo FCC filing). Several are aswell getting appear beneath Acer’s Gateway brand. There aren’t a lot of data accessible about these new netbooks and mini-laptops at the moment, but based on the pictures at Gizmodo, it looks like Acer has been captivation aback on us. In accession to the afresh semi-unveiled Aspire One D250 and Aspire One 751, there assume to be a few models with absolutely (or at atomic somewhat) altered case designs, touchpads, and keyboards.
The aggregation aswell alien several new notebooks with screens alignment from 13.3 to 17.3 inches and starting prices amid $699 and $899. A amount of these models will be attenuate and ablaze machines with Intel’s new Consumer Ultra Low Voltage processors which should advice the netbooks accomplish 8 hours or added of array life.
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