Last week, Sony announced a line of cheaper notebooks that featured Blu-ray drives. While nobody would ever accuse Sony of being the cheapest anything, the Vaio NW starting point at $880 was one of the cheapest entry level Blu-ray notebooks. Not to be outdone by anyone in price, Acer is now putting out an even cheaper Blu-ray notebook.
The notebook will start at $750 and be part of Acer’s media-focused Gemstone Blue line. Specs give it a 15.6″ screen, 2.1 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB of RAM, 250GB of storage and an nVidia GeForce GT 130M GPU. Certainly not a bad price for the spec sheet, though also nothing particularly mind blowing outside of the featured 8X Blu-ray drive, and a multitouch trackpad. Just in time for the summer back-to-school season the Aspire 5739G will be ready this June.
Acer also announced two budget laptops. One, the 5536, ships with an AMD 2.1 GHz CPU, integrated Radeon GPU, and other fairly boring specs that put it as a decent entry level laptop for those who can’t afford much more. The 5536 is selling right now for the netbook-esque price of $480. There’s also a desktop replacement laptop for $600 with a 17″ screen, 2 GHz Pentium dual-core, 4Gb of RAM and 320GB of storage that’s also available now.
Overall nothing particularly mind blowing fro Acer, which isn’t much of a surprise. Acer looks to be attacking Dell in terms of pricing, and these laptops can certainly help. Acer seems to be going in a direction where they offer cheap, barebones machines. Given the current economic state that’s not a bad idea at all.
Read [Electronista]
Sony announced a line of cheaper notebooks that featured Blu-ray drives. While nobody would ever accuse Sony of being the cheapest anything, the Vaio NW starting point at $880 was one of the cheapest entry level Blu-ray notebooks. Not to be outdone by anyone in price, Acer is now putting out an even cheaper Blu-ray notebook……
if we talk to about computer and laptop than that there are many companies known as Intel, Dell, Sony and Acer are the best.
Where last week Sony announced Blu-ray drives and now Acer also announced. So there is too tough competition in the market in each and every where and area, finally confusion.
saw one from gateway for about $500 @bestbuy