Acer Jazzes Up Laptops With BMW

You’re no one these days without a glossy black finish on your products and Acer has decided that even average notebook owners deserve a little bit of style, thanks to some help from BMW designers.

Right on the back of Intel’s launch of its next-gen Centrino mobile processor yesterday – codenamed Santa Rosa - Acer has launched four new consumer lappies sporting its new ‘Gemstone’ styling. The glossy dark exterior and beveled edges mirror the bright pearl-grey finish on the inside. As laptops with normal prices go, these certainly are good looking beasts.

There are four models: the Aspire 5720, the 5920, 7720 and the high-end 9920, the latter sporting a massive 20in display, camera, digital TV tuner and HD DVD drive. They are also the first to get Dolby Home Theatre Virtual Surround-approved.

Selected models come with the option of using Intel’s TurboMemory technology – codenamed Robson – which uses Flash memory for faster access to the most used applications as well as a claimed 20 per cent boost to boot up times. No prices yet, but imminent. Jump now for another photo.