Acer Gemstone

Acer Gemstone: New Affordable Notebooks

Acer will unveil new affordable multimedia notebooks by the end of this month. The Gemstone lineup will get new multimedia notebooks in two 15.6-inch and 17.3 display screen sizes. Of the three new Acer Gemstone notebooks, two would be sub $600 (Rs. 29,300 approx.) Aspire AS5536 and Aspire AS7735Z are available in U.S. today onwards. Aspire AS5739G, equipped with Blu-ray drive, will be made available by end of this month for $749.99 (Rs. 36,600).

The new Gemstone notebook lineup will consist of 15.6-inch Aspire AS5536 that packs 2.1GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 QL-64 dual-core processor with 1MB L2 cache and 800MHz FSB support.

Apart from that, the notebook adds 3GB DDR2 667MHz memory, 320GB SATA HDD and has ATI Radeon HD 3200 series graphics card. A dual-layer DVD-Multi drive and WLAN with 802.11 b/g/n support is also included. This notebook is priced for $479.99 (Rs. 23, 400 approx.).

While the 17.3-inch Aspire AS7735Z features 2.0GHz Intel Pentium T6400 with 1MB L2 Cache and 800MHz FSB support. This notebook packs in 4GB DDR3 1066MHz memory, Intel GMA 4500MHD, 250GB SATA HDD and dual-layer DVD-Multi drive. Like the Aspire AS5536, this model too supports 802.11 b/g/n wireless Internet standards. This notebook is available for $599 (Rs. 29,300).

Another Gemstone notebook Aspire AS5739G, carrying Blu-ray drive, would be launched by the end of this month in U.S. The Aspire AS5739G has 2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T6500 with 2MB L2 Cache and 800MHz FSB. Packing 4GB DDR3 1066MHz memory, this notebook has Nvidia GeForce GT130M graphics with 1GB video memory. Also, the WLAN 802.11b/g/n support and other features like Bio-protection fingerprint solution and PowerSmart key have been added. This notebook would be sold at price of $749.99 (Rs. 36,600).

Source:Techtree.com