Acer’s whole range of TravelMate mobile computers delivers superb performance and reliable on-the-road convenience.
The most reliable laptops in the market are those from Asus, Toshiba, and Sony, followed by Apple and Dell, according to a Sqare Trade’s reasearch which is based on a 3-year malfunction rates projection.
The failure rates for Asus, Toshiba, Sony, Apple and Dell notebooks are 15.6, 15.7, 16.8, 17.4, and 18.3 percent, respectively.
Acer has announced the new consumer-oriented Aspire and business-class TravelMate laptops, all based on the 2010 Intel Core processor family.
The 15.6-inch Aspire 5942 and 18.4-inch Aspire 8942 are entertainment notebooks and feature “first-class graphics solutions”, up to 1280GB of storage using dual hard drives, up to 8GB of DDR3 memory, and optionally integrated TV tuner and Blu-ray optical drive.
Acer released today the new TravelMate Timeline business-class ultra-thin series laptops including TravelMate 8571, 8471 and 8371.
Featuring 15.6-, 14- and 13.3-inch displays, the TravelMate Timeline 8571, 8471 and 8371 are based on the Intel CULV platform with Core 2 ultra-low voltage processors and the 4500MHD integrated graphics. The laptops come with up to 4GB of DDR3 RAM, up to 320GB of hard drive space, and a DVD burner, and provide up to 8 hours of run time with the 6-cell battery.
Acer announced yesterday the 15.4-inch TravelMate 6593 and 14.1-inch TravelMate 6493 business-class laptops, based on Intel’s Centrino 2 with vPro technology.
The new TravelMates feature Intel Core 2 Duo processors, GMA 450MHD integrated graphics, up to 4GB of DDR3 memory, a 250GB hard drive, and the Acer MediaBay hot-swappable solution that offers a choice of an extra hard disk, a second battery or an optical drive with either a DVD-Super Multi double-layer drive or DVD/CD-RW combo. Both notebooks have a screen resolution of 1280×800 pixels.
Acer will launch the refreshed Aspire and TravelMate notebook PC lines, both featuring models built on Intel “Santa Rosa” notebook platform, ComputerWorld reports.
The new Acer Aspire notebook PCs, called “Gemstone”, will be launched globally in June. The select Aspire models will feature HD DVD players, HDMI slots, Dolby surround sound and 17-inch screens. Along with “Santa Rosa”-based “Gamestone” laptops, there will be new models powered by AMD’s chipsets and processors. The new Aspire mobile computers will have changed and fashionable design when compared to current models. However, the company officials said that pricing will be competitive and there will be no premium for the extra design work that has gone into the machines.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Acer America Corporation, today announced a voluntary program for the replacement of certain notebook computer lithium-ion batteries containing Sony-made cells.
“As announced previously by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, there have been 16 reports of notebook batteries overheating. These reports were associated with earlier recalls by other notebook computer manufacturers of batteries containing these Sony cells. These previous reports involved only minor property damage and two minor burns. None of these reports involved batteries in Acer notebook computers,” Acer published.
Acer TravelMate C210 is the first-to-market 12.1-inch screen tablet PC featuring Intel’s Core 2 Duo processor. The C210 is also the first 12.1-inch tablet PC with an integrated optical drive, according to its product page on the Acer’s Worldwide site.
As same as Acer C200 tablet PC, the C210 has a sliding-track, providing one-motion convertibility from slate mode to keyboard mode with 125-degree display.
Based on Mobile Intel 945PM Express chipset with Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG or 3945BG, the Acer TravelMate C210 tablet computer has Core 2 Duo (Merom) T5500, T5600, T7200 or T7400 dual-core 64-bit processor. It supports up to 4 GB of DDR2 533/667 MHz memory, and features a hard drive with up to 160GB “or higher” storage space. Regarding graphics, it has NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 graphics card with up to 256 MB of video memory. For secure personal computing there is a built-in biometric fingerprint reader. The Acer TravelMate is “Windows Vista Capable” and “Vista Premium Ready”, but it is currently listed with Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005.
The Acer’s C210 Tablet PC weights around 5.5 pounds with 6-cell battery and optical drive module.
Currently, there is no information about its price and availability date, worldwide or in the USA.
Acer’s Worldwide site listed the new Acer Travelmate 8210 laptop featuring 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile (Merom) processor, a Blu-ray Disc drive and Windows x64 operating system.
According to Acer TravelMate 8210 product specifications, the new laptop supports the full range of new Core 2 Duo processors – T5500, T5600, T7200, T7400 and T7600.
Acer Global site listed thirteen new laptop models featuring the latest Intel Core 2 Duo, codenamed Merom, processor.
Intel’s Merom CPU powers six new models in Acer TravelMate series. Those are 14-inch screen 3270 and 3290 TravelMate laptops, as same as 15.4-inch TravelMate 8210, 4230 and 4280 notebook PCs. Acer TravelMate 5620 is the first Acer’s 17-inch notebook to feature Core 2 Duo processor, according to Acer’s notebook comparison table.
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