14 DAY TRIAL // It would appear that Acer has finally decided to come out in force on the 3D market, its newest device being an actual laptop equipped with a 3D screen and support for NVIDIA's 3D Vision.
It seems that I-O Data is not even close to being the only company active on the 3D front.
In fact, while it did deliver a pair of optical disk drives, which support Blu-ray 3D media, it did not actually offer a whole system designed for playback of it.
As it happens, however, releasing a personal computer specifically designed for enjoying 3D media, be they movies or games, is exactly what Acer has done.
Acer is, as end-users must know, one of the main suppliers of notebooks and netbooks.
The company now seeks to enforce its foothold on the high-end market by making good use of the NVIDIA 3D Vision technology.
Of course, for this to be possible, an NVIDIA video card is needed, so Acer went for the GeForce GTX 425M, one of the more or less recent Fermi discrete GPUs.
The CPU at the heart of the machine is the Intel Core i5-460M, which has a clock speed of 2.53 GHz.
Said chip is backed up by 4 GB of RAM and should make a good pair with the aforementioned video solution, enough to make the best of the 15.6-inch display.
As is required of a 3D screen, said display has a refresh rate of 120 Hz, so as to use 60 Hz for each of the two sets of images that make up the 3D impression.
Furthermore, for storage space, the company threw in a hard disk drive with a capacity of 640 GB.
Other specifications include WiFi, a 1.3 megapixel webcam, Bluetooth and USB, plus an HDMI output that lets one stream media to auxiliary displays, like monitors or HDTVs.
The newcomer bears the name of AS5745DG-A54E/L and will reportedly begin shipping, in Japan, sometime next month, probably in time for the late holiday shopping sprees. The price will be of under 100,000 yen.