Acer introduces 'Panoramic' Aspire notebook

With CES usually comes lots of semi-impressive laptops, but this year there's only been a few standouts. This particular Aspire isn't exactly impressive, but it still deserves a bit of coverage.

Also, although it has that oh-so-special 'Panoramic' label, there's no extra screen space over any other widescreen 17" laptop, but this Acer does offer quite a few nice features and shows some reasonable specifications, at a more-than-reasonable price.

It packs an Intel Core 2 Duo T5450 processor, 250GB hard drive, 2GB RAM, 256mb of dedicated NVIDIA GeForce 8400M graphics, and 802.11g WiFi + Gigabit Ethernet, as well as Acer's now pretty standard Gemstone design and Vista Home Premium.

They say it's high definition, but we're not exactly sure what they mean, as it's not quoted as having a 1920x1200 screen. We'll have to clarify. It does come with Dolby Home Theatre sound, though, so it should be half-decent with movies.

We're a bit surprised that we haven't seen draft 802.11n WiFi in this model, but you get what you pay for. It's shipped now in the US at US$1049, currently about A$1,200 which is an absolute bargain for what this packs.

[via BusinessWire]