Acer Expands The Aspire Lineup, Unveils The Ethos 8943G & Ethos 5943G Notebooks [New Acer Aspire Notebooks Feature Core i7 Processors, Dolby Home Theater Audio & Blu-ray Drives]

Posted on TFTS by Robert Nelson on Thursday, 25. March 2010 under: PCs, Notebooks, Netbooks & Tablets

Earlier today during an Italian press event Acer unveiled not only two new notebooks, but a new series of notebooks. The new notebooks will fall under the Acer Aspire Ethos brand and are carrying the model numbers of 8943G and 5943G. Both come sporting a sleek looking metallic design and touting premium features.

First up we have the Acer Aspire Ethos 8943G which has an 18.4 inch display with a full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 and that is followed by the Acer Aspire Ethos 5943G with its 15.6 inch display and 1366 x 768 HD resolution, both of which are LED backlit. Other features of the two notebooks include a side to side chiclet style keyboard, options for either an Intel Core i3, i5 or i7 processor, ATI Mobility Radeon HD500 series graphics, a fingerprint reader as well as a choice between either a DVD or Blu-ray optical drive.

Both model notebooks will also have Dolby Home Theater sound with a 5.1 channel speaker system and those speakers are all internal. Moving on, you also have the more commonly found features which include a built in webcam, integrated microphone, card reader, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, USB, eSata, Firewire, gigabit Ethernet as well as HDMI and VGA outputs. In terms of storage, the Ethos 8943G will be able to offer a massive “up to” 1.28TB. Yes, terabyte as in more than 1000GB’s. Of course that is broken up into two 640GB drives.

The notebooks also ship with optimizations that make playback of HD video better, allow users to easily convert video files and easily upload to sites like YouTube and Facebook and Flickr.

But perhaps the most important item is left for last — the pricing and availability. Unfortunately neither of those have been announced as of yet. However, based on where these were announced it looks like they will (at least) initially be available only in Italy and possibly Europe.

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