Acer Targets to Ship World’s First PCI Express Notebook

Posted on Thursday, September 09 2004 @ 22:09 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Acer, a maker of various computer components, and ATI Technologies, a designer of graphics processors, said they aimed to ship world’s first mobile computer with PCI Express x16 graphics, bringing new feature-set and performance to customers seeking for speedy notebooks.

Acer Aspire 1800 features Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz processor with 800MHz processor system bus, a PCI Express-enabled chipset, ATI’s MOBILITY RADEON X600 graphics processor, dual-channel DDR memory, wide-aspect 17” display and a range of value-added multimedia features including, Aspire Arcade multimedia suite for application management and Aspire cinema vision for lifelike, full-screen DVD quality.

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Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.

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