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Acer launches laptop with Intel's quad-core chip

By Agam Shah , IDG News Service , 12/29/2008
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Acer on Monday launched a powerful quad-core laptop at a price that may appeal to buyers on a budget.

The company's Aspire 8930G-7665 laptop is designed as a gaming laptop or desktop replacement. The laptop is powered by Intel's Core 2 Quad mobile processor with four cores that runs at up to 2.53GHz and includes 12MB of cache, according to Acer.

With a starting price of US$1,799, Acer's laptop could be a bargain compared to expensive quad-core laptops from the world's top PC vendors. Hewlett-Packard and Dell both offer quad-core laptops as either gaming laptops or mobile workstations with prices starting at over $2,000. Acer is the world's third-largest PC vendor behind HP and Dell, according to analyst firm IDC.

The laptop includes an 18.4-inch screen that can display high-definition images and video. It also includes 4GB of RAM, Nvidia's GeForce 9700M GT graphics card with 512MB of video memory, a 500GB hard drive, a Blu-ray Disc drive and Wi-Fi wireless networking. It comes preloaded with the 64-bit version of Windows Vista Premium OS.

The laptop is now available in the U.S. through retailers, the company said. Acer could not be immediately reached for comment on worldwide availability.

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Vista is beautiful :-)By Anonymous on January 1, 2009, 8:20 ammost of users learnt computing with Windows. all other oses stole and/or adopted most of popular windows features and linux is first among thiefs. Vista, and following...

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Operating system -- How about an Ubuntu Linux option?By Anonymous on December 31, 2008, 1:43 pmI would sure appreciate a machine like this, provided I didn't have to pay for, and then throw away, some version of Windows. I only use Ubuntu Linux.

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