Acer cooks up four Gemstone notebooks to serve this holiday season

Acer USA will soon be selling four new Aspire Gemstone laptops – Aspire 8930, Aspire 6930, Aspire 5735 and Aspire 4730. Starting with the Aspire 8930, it serves as a desktop replacement as well as adding capabilities of high definition. It has a large 18.4-inch HD CineCrystal widescreen display, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GPU, Dolby and Blu-Ray support. It will retail for $1700.

Next in the line is Aspire 6930 which has everything less than its 18.4-inch sibling. It has a processor with lesser clock speed, less RAM and 16-inch HD CineCrystal widescreen display. The only common thing between these two is the integrated Dolby support for top-notch audio. Price: $700.

Aspire 5735 lowers the bar a bit lower with 15.6-inch screen, dual core Intel processor and will try to provide all the multimedia functions. It is priced at $550.

Lastly, Aspire 4730 is targeted at those whose priority is mobility. The screen measures 14.1-inch and is more or less spec’ed similarly to Aspire 5735. In fact, it also costs the same as 5735.

Full Specifications:

Aspire 8930

Intel Centrino Processor Technology
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T9400 (6MB L2 Cache | 2.53 GHz | 1066MHz FSB)
18.4″ WUXGA Acer CrystalBrite TFT LCD (1920 x 1080)
4GB DDR3 1066 MHz Dual Channel Memory
NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT with 512MB dedicated video memory
320GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive
DVD-Super Multi Double-Layer Drive
6-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader
802.11a/g/Draft-N Wi-Fi CERTIFIED
Acer Crystal Eye Webcam
Dolby Home Theater
Windows Vista Ultimate

Aspire 6930

Intel Centrino Processor Technology
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5800 (2MB L2 Cache | 2.0GHz | 800MHz FSB)
16″ WXGA Acer CrystalBrite TFT LCD (1366 x 768)
3072MB DDR2 667 MHz Dual Channel Memory
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
320GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
8X DVD-Super Multi Double-Layer Drive
5-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader
802.11a/b/g/Draft-N Wi-Fi CERTIFIED
Acer Crystal Eye Webcam
Dolby Home Theater
Windows Vista Home Premium

Aspire 5735

Intel Pentium Dual-Core Mobile Processor T3200
1 MB L2 Cache, 2.0 GHz, 667 MHz FSB
15.6″ WXGA (HD) Acer CrystalBrite TFT LCD (1366 x 768)
2048MB DDR2 667 MHz Dual Channel Memory
160GB SATA 5400RPM Hard Drive
8X DVD-Super Multi Double-Layer Drive
5-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader
802.11b/g/Draft-N Wi-Fi CERTIFIED
4 – USB 2.0 Ports
Windows Vista Home Premium

Aspire 4730

Intel Pentium Dual Core T3200 (1MB L2 cache, 2GHz, 667MHz FSB)
14.1″ WXGA Acer CrystalBrite TFT LCD (1280 x 800)
2048MB DDR2 667 MHz Dual Channel Memory
120GB SATA 5400RPM Hard Drive
8X DVD-Super Multi Double-Layer Drive
5-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader
802.11b/g/Draft-N WiFi CERTIFIED
Acer Crystal Eye Webcam
2 – USB 2.0 Ports
Windows Vista Home Premium

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