Acer has launched into the world’s most movie-mad market earlier this month.
The Taiwan-based world no. 2 in the portable personal computer business unveiled two new models under the name Aspire Gemstone Blue: The types 6920 and 8920 come with 16 and 18.4-inch screens. Both boast the latest version of Dolby’s home theatre acoustics — 5.1 CineSurround.
Aspire 8920 was the world’s first notebook PC to come with six built-in speakers, including a tube-type bass booster fitted behind the screen.
Both models have liquid crystal displays with full high definition (HD) — that is 1920 by 1080 pixel — resolution. The larger-screen model is arguably the world’s first laptop to offer 18-inch wide-screen format viewing at full HD quality.
It boasts one of the first Bluray DVD drives to come to India in a portable computer. It will allow owners to be among the first to experience high definition cinema as more and more titles appear in the Bluray format.
Acer has built into both models a special “Cine-dash media console” — a touch-sensitive and very intuitive control — alongside the laptop keyboard to provide the start-stop and fast-forward-rewind type of options for which one would normally use a separate ‘remote.’
The machines are top-end laptop computers, running Windows Vista and fuelled by contemporary dual-core Intel chips, with 2-3 GB of memory and 250 GB-320 GB of disk storage. Priced under Rs. 50,000 and Rs. 70,000 respectively, the two models seem to throw in many features that enhance the cinema experience — at a small extra cost compared to standard laptops of these specifications.
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