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Acer sounds out Santa Rosa notebooks
Acer showed off its new corporate and consumer notebooks based on Intel's Santa Rosa platform today.
For business users there's five new Travelmate notebooks that come with a magnesium alloy cover. Build quality looks good and there's no doubt in my mind they are gunning for the Thinkpad's market.
The Aspire range is for the home user and has been updated with 'Gemstone Concept' styling, which is quite different from anything gone before it. Personally I'm not sure I like the off-white used and the keyboard felt a little flimsy to type on, but I'll reserve any conclusions until a later date.
The new Aspire notebooks, 5720, 5920, 9920 and 7720 come with 15.4in, 17in or whopping 20in displays and ATI graphics or Nvidia's spanking new DirectX 10 8600GT cards.
Dolby 'Home Theatre Virtual Surround sound compatibility' was a major theme Acer pushed at launch, which is a little disappointing since being a Dolby machine involves paying a royalty fee, sticking a sticker on and then installing some 5.1 surround sound software (basically any notebook can be it).
Posted by Emil Larsen on May 14, 2007 | Permalink
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