Acer Unveils Two New TravelMate Laptops

Acer, the world's third largest PC company, has just announced two new notebook computer systems, as part of its TravelMate lineup, designed for mobile professional users. The company's new models, dubbed TravelMate 6593 and TravelMate 6493, are now available in the U.S. commercial channel and are designed to provide a robust, secure and powerful PC solution, ready to meet the requirements of the corporate and small-to-medium business users.

Acer's new portable computer systems, designed for mobile professionals, have been built as a 15.4-inch and a 14.1-inch solution, incorporating some of the latest computer hardware components on the market. Both systems have been featured with Intel's latest Centrino 2 mobile platform and boast an integrated Intel 3D Graphics Media Accelerator X4500MHD.

The 15.1-inch TravelMate 6593 has been featured with Intel's Core 2 Duo T9500 processor, clocked at 2.53GHz. Equipped with 4GB of DDR3 1066Mhz dual channel memory and a 250GB 7200RPM SATA hard drive, the TravelMate 6593 is capable of providing an optimum Windows Vista experience. In addition, the TravelMate 6593 comes with a DVD-Super Multi Double-Layer optical drive, 5-in-1 card reader, wireless 802.11 a/b/g/n connectivity and an Acer Crystal Eye Webcam.

Acer's new 14.1-inch TravelMate 6493, also built on the Centrino 2 platform, is featured with the Intel Core 2 Duo T8400 processor, running at 2.53GHz. The system is equipped with 3GB of DDR3 memory, and packs 250GB of storage space on 7200RPM SATA hard drive. Aside from that, the 14.1-inch model is pretty similar to the larger 15.4-inch TravelMate 6593.

In addition, the company said that its new TravelMate notebooks can be incorporated with the Acer ezDock II and ezDock II+ docking stations. The notebooks will become available, along with the ezDock II and ezDock II+ dock stations, through Acer's authorized resellers, with the TravelMate 6593 coming with an MSRP of $1499, while the TravelMate 6493 comes at $1099-$1299.