Sunday, June 12, 2011

Acer Aspire Ethos: PC multimedia touchpad remote convertible

Acer has recently announced the launch in France, alongside that of new TimelineX intended for portable use, its new "Aspire Ethos" intended for their use in multimedia and sedentary. They launched a particularly innovative touchpad.

New "Acer Aspire 5951G Ethos" and "8951G" benefit naturally turn to the adoption of Sandy Bridge to benefit from a comprehensive upgrade.

Dedicated to multimedia

They inaugurate therefore to start a removable pad, turning into remote wireless when they are used as media player, especially connected to a TV via their HDMI 1.4. The device then illuminates to reveal tactile keys.




The "Ethos 8951G" assures yet this role independently through its large screen Full HD 18.4-inch diagonal (48 cm) and its sound equipment including a loudspeaker Acer Tuba CineBass dedicated to serious. The "Ethos 5951G" sticks about him to poor definition WXGA (1366 x 768 pixels), relatively coarse for the diagonal of 15.6 inches (39.5 cm), and a pair of speakers stereo.

The screen on both computers is anyway covered with a glass Corning Gorilla Glass, the shell uses an alloy of aluminum and magnesium and the keyboard is backlit.

A data sheet on page

The "Ethos 5951G-2414G64Mn" also houses a dual-CPU Intel Core i5 heart-2410M supported by 4 GB of DDR3 RAM, a dedicated GPU Nvidia GeForce 540M GT equipped with 1GB of memory, a 640GB hard drive and a DVD burner. It is now sold 1000 euros in this configuration.

The "8951G-2414G1TMn" is distinguished by a Core i7 Quad-2630QM heart and storage based on two hard drives of 500 GB each. It is then sold 1100 euros.

More powerful processors are optional, as a graphics chip Nvidia GeForce GT 555 m, hard drives of 640 GB or 750 and a combination of SSD and HDD, a reader / writer Blu-ray.

The new "Ethos" finally boarded an 8-cell battery giving them a modest autonomy of 3.5 hours for a heavy weight of respectively 3.3 and 3.9 kg. It is removable, like on the new TimelineX, but she claims in exchange efficiency maintained at 80% after 1000 cycles of load.

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