Acer who is an official supplier to the Scuderia Ferrari racing team announced the launch of the exclusive Ferrari 3000 notebook. If you take a look at the specifications you will see that this Ferrari style looking laptop is not the absolute top race car in the notebook market, but it does have the Ferrari price tag.
Gianfranco Lanci, President of Acer Inc.'s International Operations Business Group, and Acer EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) declared, "Innovation and technology have always played a primary role in the world of Formula One racing and IT, that is why Acer has designed a notebook that expresses these characteristics. Innovation and technological advances are what drive Acer to reach its growth targets.
The Ferrari laptop housing has the stylish Ferrari red combined with some silver colors. The Ferrari 3000 has an AMD processor, an ATi Radeon mobility 9200 with 128MB Ram, a 15" TFT screen, 512MB DDR Ram, 60GB harddisk and a DVD dual optical solution.
"Mobile" represents connectivity-ease under all circumstance, which the exclusive Ferrari 3000 guarantees thanks to wireless connectivity (standard IEEE 802.11g) and PAN with built-in Bluetooth, LAN connections with 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet and phone line support with 56Kbps V.92 modem or fax.
Displaying, managing or storing images and videos, or connecting videos and digital peripherals are made easy with the Ferrari 3000, with its DVD player/burner, quick USB ports, S-Video output, FireWire IEEE 1394 interface and 4-in-1 memory card reader.
The limited edition Ferrari 3000 will have a price tag of $1999, without VAT and sales taxes. It will be available in november 2003.
Re: Acer comes with new racehorse : the Ferrari 3000 notebook (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Monday, January 19 2004 @ 16:36:10 CET
Very nice specs, and the price has come down nicely as well... You can't get much more cool hardware for this price (i've seen it as low as 1400 euro's (ex tax)). But i've just ordered 2 of these (with 1GB ram) ... We'll see how they do :)
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