Acer president Gianfranco Lanci took the podium in New York today to unveil some new hotness... namely, the second-generation Acer Gemstone line.
What we've got going on here is one color ("gemstone blue," naturally) and two flavors; 16" and 18.4". But both start with a few sweet basics: 1080p screens showing off 512MB NVIDIA 9650m GS graphics, run off a 1.5GHz Penryn processor. Oh, and Blu-Ray drives, because that's the wave of The Future (for two or three years, when we'll digitally download everything).
The batteries look a little weak - between 2.5 and 3 hours - but the base models will start around the $900 level, with upgradeable hard drives that'll push them into the mid-high 1K range.
All told, it looks like a nice new deck from a solid company (they did just place second in worldwide notebook sales), and we'll have your SquareTrade laptop extended warranty ready for you when the Gemstones ship sometime next month.
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