Acer unleashes a wave of new products at CeBIT

Tomas Mowlam looks at the last week’s worth of hot new product and gadget releases from the Taiwanese hardware giant, at the CeBIT show in Germany including a multimedia display, Aspire and TravelMate laptop updates and a new netbook.

The Acer 24-inch D241H monitor will according to the press release “revolutionise the way you use a monitor.”

Inside that fairly humble looking 24-inch glossy display Acer has packed:

• 1x wireless and 1x wired LAN port for Internet connections.
• 6-in-1 memory card reader
• 2x USB 2.0 ports
• HDMI port
• Wireless Keyboard
• 80,000:1 contrast ratio and a 2ms response ratio.

There is also a calendar, poster, photo, news, weather and clock functions and widgets. The D241H combines the functions of digital photo frames, along with some basic computing and organisational capabilities. It represents a further blurring of PC categories somewhere between your high-end displays and all-in-one PCs, like the Dell Inspiron Zino.

Acer has released new models for the Aspire and TravelMate ranges. The Aspire 8942 and Aspire 5942. With your choice of Intel® 2010 Core processors, up to 8Gb of RAM and a 1Tb hard drive they’re powerful machines.

The new Aspire’s come with an 18.4-inch or 15.6-inch display, beefed up sound, Blu-ray disc drives and digital TV tuners; Acer is gunning for the home entertainment market.

The new TravelMate 8×72 models are packing Intel® Core™ i7, i5 and i3 Mobile CPU’s. You can get yours in 13.3-inch, 14-inch or 15.6-inch breeds. Acer is offering hard drives up to 640Gb or solid state drives up to 160Gb. Acer claims eight or more hours of battery life in a package that weighs just over 2kg at its heaviest.

Still more models

The Aspire One 752 Notebook runs an Intel® Celeron® ULV processor, up to 4Gb of RAM and 320Gb hard drive.

It looks to have a pleasingly compact form factor; with a 1366 x 768p HD 11.6-inch screen it’s just 22mm thick and weighs only 1.4kg.

If this all seems a little pedestrian then the Aspire PREDATOR G7750 should cheer you up. Billed as “the essence of power” it runs on an Intel® Core™ i7 Extreme Edition processor.

For a great gaming experience the new Predator can be customised with the Acer GD245HQ 3D monitor with NVIDIA® 3D Vision™, giving you 3D gaming fun. It features four hard disk bays, up to 1Tb each, supporting RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10.

Acer also released new Veriton business models. The M680G and S680G both feature Intel® Core™ i7, i5 or i3, up to 16Gb of and up to 1Tb hard drives. Tool-less opening eases maintenance, and there’s pre-loaded business software.

Rumours also abound that Acer is working on a frameless laptop, with touch screen keyboard.

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