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Desktops & Notebooks: Acer Taps Intel, Nvidia for New Line of Laptops, All-in-One PCs


JERSEY CITY, N.J.—At an event at the Liberty Science Center here, Acer showed off more than 20 new PCs, including netbooks and mininotebooks, thin and light Aspire Timeline laptops, and all-in-one PCs running Microsoft Windows 7, which allows users to take advantage of multitouch screen technology.

The April 7 launch will have an impact on all three lines within the Acer Group: Acer, Gateway and eMachines. Through aggressive pricing and focusing on technology such as laptops and netbooks that offer up to 8 hours of battery life, Acer is looking to challenge the world's two leading PC vendors —Hewlett-Packard and Dell.

One of the more innovative PCs on display April 7 was the Acer AspireRevo, a new type of small-footprint nettop that uses Intel's Atom processors and the Nvidia Ion platform to provide graphics. Other PCs on display included the Acer Aspire Timeline series, Acer's All-in-One offering and new Aspire One netbooks.
 
  • Acer Taps Intel, Nvidia for New Line of Laptops, All-in-One PCs
    by Scott Ferguson
  • The Acer AspireRevo
    This is Acer's new nettop, which uses an Intel Atom 230 processor along with the Nvidia Ion platform for graphics. This small form-factor desktop also features a SATA (Serial ATA) hard disk drive or a solid-state drive along with 4GB of DDR2 (double data rate 2) memory.
  • The Acer AspireRevo
    In addition to the hardware, the combination of Intel and Nvidia chip technology means Acer's nettop can support Microsoft Windows Vista and DirectX10 games, and users can watch 1080p high-definition movies.
  • Acer All-in-One
    At the event, Acer showed off its upcoming All-in-One desktop PC, which will support a range of Intel processors from Celeron to the latest quad-core chips. The All-in-One also supports Windows 7 for multitouch technology.
  • Acer All-in-One
    When it's released, not only will the 24-inch Acer All-in-One PC support traditional hard disk drives with up to 1TB of data storage, but the company will also offer solid-state drive options.
  • The eMachine E725 Notebook
    This notebook is part of the Acer Group's effort to expand the audience for its eMachine line of laptops. The E725 notebook offers a 15.6-inch display, an Intel Pentium T4200 processor, 4GB of RAM and a 320GB hard disk drive.
  • The eMachine G725 Laptop
    This is part of the G Series of eMachine laptops. This model features a larger 17.3-inch screen but uses the same Intel Pentium T4200 processor. The G725 also has up to 4GB of RAM and a 250GB hard disk drive.
  • Acer Aspire Timeline 5810T
    The Timeline series is Acer's new line of thin and light notebooks that promise better battery life plus features such as solid-state drives at much lower costs. The 5810T offers an Intel ultralow-volt chip, an SSD and 4GB of DDR3 memory.
  • Acer Aspire One
    One of several netbooks and mininotebooks on display, this Acer Aspire One offers the smaller 10.1-inch LED display along with an Intel Atom N280 processor running at 1.66GHz. With 1GB of RAM, this netbook is running Windows XP.
  • Acer Aspire One
    Here's a view of how compact and thin netbooks now are designed. In addition to 8 hours of battery life, Acer is offering netbooks with 10.1-inch and 11.6-inch screens.
  • Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T
    The Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T is another of the company's thinner and lighter laptops. This model offers up to 8 hours of battery life, Intel ultralow-volt processors, DDR3 memory and an SSD, according to Acer.
  • The Acer Aspire Timeline Series
    Acer had several of these newer laptops on display and demonstrated that a user can comfortably hold two laptops at the same time. At the low end, these laptops weigh 3.5 pounds.
  • The Acer Aspire Timeline
    Acer will sell its Timeline series with 13.3-, 14- and 15.6-inch displays. Acer also used new cooling technology to allow the laptops to use less power.
  • The Acer Aspire 3935
    This new notebook is designed for on-the-go use. The Aspire 3935 has a 13.3-inch display, an Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 processor running at 2.53GHz, an Intel GM45 chip set, 4GB of DDR3 memory and a 128GB SSD that allows users to have 10 hours of notebook battery life.
  • The Acer Aspire 8935G
    This is a desktop replacement laptop thanks to an 18.4-inch display. The Aspire 8935G offers an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000 chip running at 2GHz along with an ATI Radeon HD 4670 graphics card, 4GB of DDR memory and up to 1TB of hard disk drive data storage.
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