Acer's New Aspire Ethos TouchScreen Laptop

This week, Acer announced its new Aspire Ethos laptops. The laptops have a secondary touchscreen, which doubles as a touchpad. The new technology is meant to help users navigate through multimedia content. The touchscreen is placed below the keyboard where a touchpad would normally be located and it displays movie and music navigation icons. According to spokesperson for the company, the icons allow you to do thing such as adjust volume or go through images.

In a press release, Acer said, "The media console is now combined with the touchpad, providing a set of commands all managed by a single key and a completely new approach to entertainment control." They also stated that the new technology leaves the laptop's surface looking clean and elegant.

According to PC World, Acer is not the only company looking to make touchpads a little fancier. Synaptics is adding gesture functionality, which allows users to perform routine tasks more quickly. They also report that Intel has suggested auxiliary screens that display widgets that allow you to do things such as type Twitter messages replace touchpads.

The new Acer laptops feature Advanced Micro Devices ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series graphics cards, which are great for watching HD DVDs. They can also be bought with Blu-ray Disc drives and they each run Intel's Core i5 or Core i7 processors. The laptops also include Acer's Arcade Deluxe multimedia management software, which allows users to take more advantage of the touchpad controls and makes it easier to share content through YouTube, Facebook, and Flickr.

The Ethos 8943G will have a 18.4-inch screen and the Ethos 5943G will feature a 15.6-inch screen. Each one will have up to 1.28TB of storage through two 640GB hard drives, as well as including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Release dates and prices are not yet available.

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Dell Studio XPS 16 is a videophile's dream machine

The new XPS 16 multimedia laptop from Dell features a glossy black case with anodized aluminum and leather accents, a backlit keyboard, and a 1920x1080 LED backlit LCD with wide viewing angles for an awesome viewing experience with the built in slot-loading Blu-Ray player. 2 stereo speakers and an internal subwoofer drive the sound, which provides excellent bass for a laptop.

It comes standard with a Core 2 duo P8600 2.4gHZ processor, which provides very good video encoding results, and is upgradable to the 2.8gHZ T9600 Core 2 Duo for even better number crunching power.

The XPS 16 comes with a plethora of ports, Firewire, 3 USB ports, 8 in 1 card reader, double headphone jacks, and even an eSATA port.

The XPS 16 comes with the ATI Mobility RADEON® M86XT video card with 512MB memory. This card is also known as the ATI Mobility RADEON HD 3670, which is getting around 4500 3d marks at 1280x768 resolution.

Acer Releases New Multimedia Laptops

Acer has released a brand new series of multimedia optimized laptops nicknamed the Aspire 8920G and 6920G "blue" series. In a press conference Vice President Jim Wong said the new design will be bringing a "true multimedia innovation" to notebooks.

Because of the multimedia functionality of Windows Vista, these new laptops will be available in either Windows Vista Ultimate or Windows Vista Home Premium and will be based off the Intel Core 2 Duo Processors.

Aiming at providing an unprecedented multimedia experience, the new Aspire laptops will come in both 18.4-inch and 16-inch versions, include a Blu-Ray disc reader, full HD 1920 * 1080 high definition LCD screens and the Dolby Pro Logic 2.0 surround-sound audio system.

Source: pcworld.com