Acer unveils two new Aspire Ethos laptops for multimedia enthusiasts, street fighters

Multimedia enjoyment redefined

London, 7th June 2011 – Acer’s new Aspire Ethos series is decided to go away the mark, giving a brand new the theory of home entertainment. They’re the dream of even the foremost demanding multimedia and entertainment enthusiasts. Ranging from the cool new look all the way down to the attention-popping visual experience, the improved sound system, the powerful processors and some of the best ergonomics. Nothing was left to chance; everything right down to the smallest detail was painstakingly designed to summon the final user experience in the case of entertainment and function.

Sleek frameless CineCrystal™ Full HD and HD displays and are equipped with outstanding HD discrete graphics solutions to supply a surprising multimedia experience, while full DirectX® 11 support accounts for a giant gaming performance and superior image quality with realistic effects and crisp, life-like imagery for a more immersive and detailed experience.

The hot Aspire Ethos boast an enhanced sound system that delivers a much better audio performance for a richer and more enjoyable listening, while the professionally-tuned Dolby® Home Theater® v4 solutions maximizes volume output and makes the main of the speakers’ performance to create a house theater surround sound. The Aspire Ethos 8951G comes with Acer CineSurround with five Dolby-tuned built-in speakers and Acer Tuba CineBass subwoofer supporting low-frequency effects and colourful audio for without equal movie enjoyment. The Aspire Ethos 5951G packs True5.1-channel surround sound output, two built-in stereo speakers and the Acer Tuba CineBass booster, supporting low-frequency effects for a unconditionally engaging experience.

With a detachable touchpad that doubles as a MediaRemote for convenient multimedia and content enjoyment at a distance, the Aspire Ethos take full control and ergonomics to the following level. An orientation sensor allows the touchpad for use either horizontally or vertically.

What’s more, these laptops allow seamless media sharing and delight via clear.fi: clear.fi is Acer’s media sharing system in keeping with the concept it’s easier if all multimedia content is only brought right into a single system with a standard interface. Irrespective of where they’re. clear.fi is a cross-platform solution that works straight out of the box, automatically detecting the clear.fi-enabled devices connected to the wireless home network, after which allowing all digital content stored on any of those to be shared seamlessly using the clear.fi media interface.

Because of the InstantOn Arcade key the Aspire Ethos could be fast booted allowing you to observe movies, play music and consider photos very quickly. Just press the fast access multimedia key and feature fun!

With the choice of Blu-Ray Disc™ or a DVD optical drive you are able to enjoy your movies at the sleek 16:9 frameless displays or extend the 1080p HD experience to you big screen TV via the newest version of the HDMI® standard for the final word cinematic splendor.

The 48 cm (18.4″) or 39.5 cm (15.6″) format and entire HD (1920×1080)[1] or HD (1366×768)[2] resolutions, the ultra-stylish frameless displays, protected behind a scratch resistant Corning Gorilla Glass, offer an edge-to-edge view and confirm attractive natural shades. The panels employ mercury-free LED backlight technology that not just improves image quality and increases readability in low light conditions but additionally reduces power consumption

The Aspire Ethos laptops flaunt a complete black look with contrasting glossy and matte surfaces that oozes style from every angle. The brushed aluminium-magnesium alloy cover shows off a worldly hairline finish. Contained in the elegant display is mirrored by the handsome back-lit chiclet keyboard it is easier to work with in low light.

The Acer Ethos series is predicated on second generation Intel® Core™ i processors, offering dynamic processing power and smart multitasking for music, gaming, videos, movies, photos, social networking and other demanding mainstream applications while consuming less power. The recent processors also feature Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 to deliver great media processing for faster video editing and sharing, accelerated web browsing and awesome gaming experience. NVIDIA GeForce GT500 series discrete graphics ensure spectacular image quality so one can satisfy even the foremost demanding gamers, while the USB 3.0 port transfers data to and from external devices 10 times faster than before.

The integrated PowerSmart long life battery ensures prolonged battery performance over an extended amount of time. With conventional batteries, power capacity starts to vanish after 300 charge cycles. The brand new battery with long cycle life formula can retain 80% capacity for over 1000 charge cycles: over three times more in comparison to traditional notebook batteries. This also make the Aspire Ethos more environmentally-friendly as fewer battery replacements are needed.

With the hot Aspire Ethos you can still charge your smartphone or other USB devices without turning at the laptop. As your laptop becomes your charging station you could travel even lighter because there’s no longer should carry along power adapters. Just plug your USB device into the blue USB port and charge. To make sure that your laptop doesn’t run out of battery, power-off USB charging is barely enabled when above a user-defined battery level.

A generous HDD space meets the wishes of multimedia enthusiasts, while at the Aspire Ethos 8951G there’s even the likelihood to mix a SSD, for superfast booting and alertness loading, with an immense sized HDD for storage purposes. Besides, the Aspire Ethos series includes a convenient multi-in-1 card reader that still supports the newest SDXC card format for simple and speedy data transfer across devices.

The Aspire Ethos family integrates state-of-the-art wireless and wired technologies: Wi-Fi® CERTIFIED® network connection supporting Acer SignalUp™ with Nplify™ wireless technology, Bluetooth® 3.0 (optional) and Gigabit LAN. The Acer Video Conference solution, including the Acer Crystal Eye high-def webcam and built-in microphone, means that you can communicate along with your friends or business contacts through top of the range video conferences.

The Aspire Ethos series can be available mid June with RRP’s from £999 Inc VAT