14 DAY TRIAL // Another nice product that managed to impress us on the floor of the CeBIT 2009 show in Hanover is the Acer Predator, which the company chose to bring along for showcasing. This gaming PC is part of the maker's Aspire line, and it is surely meant to make a stand, especially when it comes to its design, which one would rather say is taken from a science-fiction movie.
The system that we were able to see at the exposition, the Acer Aspire Predator G7200, comes with a powerful AMD gaming platform, includes an AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core processor, and is able to pack up to 8GB of DDR2 memory. In addition, it also provides support for 2-Way ATI CrossFire setups, allowing users to include two ATI Radeon HD 4970 graphics cards inside it.
Other specifications of the system Acer brought to CeBIT also include 4x Acer easySwap 3.5-inch drive slots, as well as a Logitech G11 Gaming keyboard and the Logitech G5 Gaming mouse. All the capabilities of the system are complemented by its exterior design, which is undoubtedly daring and aggressive.
The Acer Predator also sports a flipping front panel that can provide fast and easy access to the mentioned drive bays, as well as to its multi-format memory card reader, four USB 2.0 ports and 3.5mm audio sockets. Around the back, we'll be able to spot other four USB 2.0 slots, as well as a six-pin Firewire connector, 2x Gigabit Ethernet ports, six more audio slots as well as a button that enables users to change the BIOS settings if need be.
In addition, Acer also brought along its G24 gaming monitor, which has been designed to fit the high performance of the Predator. This 24-inch LCD 16:10 screen comes with a 50,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio and sports a 1,920 x 1,200 resolution, a 2-ms response time, as well as HDMI, DVI and VGA connectors.
Live report by Traian Teglet from CeBIT 2009 Hanover, Germany.
