We started to look like Acer PR distibution company, but you’ll have to sit quite and leave no objections about it, because we are releasing hot information and there will be one more article about their notebooks. Right now we are talking about new 17-inch model – the Aspire 7740G, which would be based on the new Intel PM55 chipset and equpped with either Core i7 620M, Core i5 430M or Core i3 330M processors and ATI Mobility Radeon HD5650 graphics card with 1 GB GDDR3 video memory. More details below. …read on
Acer never stop to amaze us how fast they move once they decide something fits their politics. Acer does its job well and hits the market with innovations the moment they are available, and it is how the company works. And it works well given the fact they are 2nd largest PC supplier in global market, even as they are heavily underrepresented in North America (read USA and Canada). Which also means they have a huge impact on any market, at least as much as HP and Dell. There are no wonders behind this – the company doesn’t sell its name but hardware. Even if we throw out the past examples, they are really the first known manufacturer that not only is rumored to have a ATI Mobility Radeon HD5650 notebooks as we wrote here, but the first to use the new Core i5 and Core i3 processors from Intel, as you will see later in this article. By the way – both i3 and i5 are under NDA until January, but you can find details in Wikipedia, as usual, so we wont give credits to other reviewers about copying the stuff. Before we continue with the list of 8942Gs, check this out: …read on
A member of Tom’s Hardware forum started a thread that shows off a couple of benchmark results from GTX380 and GTX 360 graphic cards by NVIDIA. Off course – the thread soon turned to a mass laughter at the poor Photoshopper, but he continued to insist the results are true and were about to be published in a future tomshardware.com article (he even gave a link, leading nowhere). Usually we wouldn’t use those results at all, if we didn’t know how often there is NDA going on the results and articles and how sometimes you just hit that “publish” button instead of “save draft” (that is in WordPress, but you can imagine they don’t write HTML at TH and use some user-friendly backend), so there could be some mistake, followed by quick cleanup. Anyway we just decided to keep those charts here as they won’t get deleted if the forum thread goes underground. …read on
Some time ago we wrote about Acer’s new addition to the 120 Hz monitors for gaming and 3D Vision – the GD245HD – a 24-inch 3D Vision Ready display with Full HD resolution. Acer soon followed with news about another 120 Hz TFT monitor – the GD235HZ, which would be a cheaper version with WSXGA+ resolution with a bit bigger screen than the popular Samsung and Viewsonic monitors with their 22-inch wide screens. UPDATE – we just received information that it would be the same product as GD245HD with 23.5″ panel and FullHD resolution! …read on
The 120 Hz mark sound promising not only for those that want 3DVision system, but also for the hardcore gamers who want more frames per second displayed on their screen. Having said that, we expect that the next wave of gaming monitors will be all “3DVision Ready” as part of their marketing value, but what’s better – they will all have virtually lag-free and capable of displaying 120 frames per second. Some time ago we wrote a few details about new 24-inch 120 Hz display from Acer, now it’s time to officially announce it. …read on
