Live from the Acer ‘Blue’ announcement
- March 12th, 2008
- 3 Comments
Our intrepid editor in chief John D. Biggs is live at the Acer announcement. I’ll be updating the info in this post as we get it…
More details about Acer’s new laptops can be found here.
3:52 PM: Product shot
3:50 PM: Here’s a couple shots of the CineDash thing…
3:36 PM: Uses Intel’s Penryn architecture.
3:33 PM: Will support BD Live.
3:23 PM: Shipping in a month, priced between $900 and $1700
3:19 PM: Cinedash
“The cool blue CineDash media console is a touch-sensitive entertainment interface with CE-style control, including slide action volume/menu selection and instant multimedia access to Acer Arcade Deluxe”
3:13 PM: 5.1 speakers including subwoofer
3:12 PM: 1080p, 16:9 aspect ratio, 18.4 and 16 inches, Dolby home theater, NVIDIA GeForce 9650M (looks like it’s not a UMPC after all)
3:10 PM: Cool multimedia controls on the side
3:09 PM: Product photos
3:05 PM: Acer Aspire “Gemstone blue” Notebook, premiering CineReal Sensation, New Trend for True Multimedia Enjoyment
3:04 PM: Playing “Blue” by Eiffel
3:03 PM: Okay, product coming
2:59 PM: Boooooring
2:56 PM: Acer President Gianfranco Lanci talking about brand and commodity
2:51 PM: Oh boy, financial data!
2:49 PM: Looks like it might be a handheld
2:39 PM: Welcome.
Excited (Who am I?)
5 months ago
THAT’S IT???!!!!
Mark (Who am I?)
5 months ago
Pretty cool. I’ve been looking for a notebook lately that’s not going to break my little piggy bank too much, I can handle a couple cracks though…But compared to other notebooks out there, the price range doesn’t seem too bad I guess (I know nothing about notebooks, so if anyone wants to help me out, chime in).
The media thing is pretty cool. the Blu-ray part interests me (of course). Graphics card is on the higher end, and it does look cool…any other specs? Or is that still TBA?
Doug Aamoth (Who am I?)
5 months ago
Yeah, the pricing for this series is pretty good. Here are some more specs and details:
http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/03/12/acer-aspire-gemstone-blue-series-details/