Hybrid, touch and mobility: - The Republic

A high-end notebooks with a screen to “swivel”, an ultrabook that turns into a tablet and a “tablet” at low cost. The new Taiwanese company revealed in a factory in the New York City borough of Chelsea, who usually hosts emerging artists and baptizes the new trends from our correspondent FEDERICO BITTI

NEW YORK – A powerful notebook that incorporates the touch experience with an innovative design, a ultrabook with a gesture that converts into a tablet can offer high performance and finally a tablet “pure” of economic Android platform within reach of every budget. And ‘this summary of the new range of Acer products that hit the market between mid-May and June, presented today at Milk Studios in New York, known exhibition space of the Chelsea neighborhood, typically a launch pad for emerging artists and new cultural trends .

At first glance it seems clear product revealed as most Taiwanese computer giant that needs to innovate or generate new technological points to photograph, develop and optimize well-established needs of the users. The objective is to regain the market share that especially on the front of the computer has significantly decreased. “For us, the priority is the user experience: it is not the technology but the consumer needs to have to impose it on the market,” says Luca Rossi, vice president of Acer in Europe and responsible for the business consumer.

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And if the touch is emerging as an essential interaction with the device, integrates the Acer Aspire R7 with Pc in the world,

a notebook full hd on Windows 8 platform, with a touch monitor to swivel 360 degrees. The mission is to combine notebook, tablet and desktop all-in-one. And ‘it can bend the 15.6-inch touchscreen display based on up to turn it into a mega tablet or leave perpendicular like a notebook or turn it to an audience during a presentation or simply to share a screen with a gesture. Movements made possible by a hinge aluminum called “Ezel” that folds in on itself allowing all of these locations for the display. The Aspire R7 is designed for so-called heavy users of high-end: major performance guaranteed by an Intel Core i5, with a maximum amount to 16 GB of RAM, up to 1TB hard drive and video card dedicated Nvidia GeForce Gt750M. It will be on the market by June with a starting price of 999 Euros.

In an attempt – will establish the market if successful – to combine productivity and mobility, Acer Aspire then imagined the P3, a Windows 8 tablet with IPS touch screen display 11.6-inch HD resolution. The Core i3 or Core i5 allow fledged performance Ultrabook with the particularity of being able to completely detach the display from the case-keyboard making it in effect a tablet. The price starts from a basic minimum of 599 euro and for now is only available in wifi though Acer is also thinking about a 3G version. High performance is often the enemy of mobility but the promise is of a maximum range of 6 hours for data storage are designed SSD 60 GB or 120 depending on configuration. In terms of connectivity answered the call HDMI video output, a 5 megapixel rear camera and the HD front.

In terms of “tablets” Acer tip on the price. The tablet Iconia A1 with a display from 7.9-inch IPS LCD display with resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels. The arr ival in stores is planned for the end of May in the two versions Wi-Fi Only at the price of 169 euro and 219 euro 3G. The platform is Android, the allocation of RAM is equal to 1 GB of storage space for 8 or 16 Giga depending on the version. The weight is just over 400 grams and between the characteristics of the rear camera of 5 mega pixels and the video output HDMI. A product “low-cost” suitable to a target not willing to spend hundreds of Euros for a tablet.