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New Acer Aspire 9500 Series from Acer America

The Acer Aspire 9500 is a family of 17" wide-screen notebooks for SMB/SOHO markets. The new series features an Intel Pentium M or Intel Celeron M Processor, up to 2GB DDR2 533 SDRAM, and 17" WXGA widescreen CrystalBrite color TFT LCD.

The display is powered either by an ATI Mobility Radeon X700 graphics card with 128/256 MB dedicated video memory or by the Intel 915GM integrated 3D graphics card featuring Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900. In addition, DualView technology support allows simultaneous viewing of the LCD and an external monitor.

This newest Acer notebook incorporates up to a 120GB hard drive, integrated DVD-Dual double layer drive, 5-in-1 memory card reader supporting MultiMediaCard (MMC), Secure Digital (SD), Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro and xD-Picture standards, and Acer CinemaVision and Acer ClearVision (Acer Arcade) video technologies that allow optimized DVD and audio CD management.

The Acer Aspire 9500 series also offers an optional analog and digital TV tuner. The Aspire 9500 weighs less than eight pounds and is equipped with an 8 cell Li-ion battery that produces up to 3 hours battery life.

Some specs:

Intel Pentium M Processor 760 (2MB L2 cache, 2.0GHz, 533MHz FSB)
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition
2GB (1GB/1GB) DDR2 533 SDRAM
120GB hard drive
Integrated DVD-Super Multi double-layer drive
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X700, 256MB DDR
Analog TV Tuner
5-in-1 card reader for optional MultiMediaCard, Secure Digital card, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO or xD-Picture Card
802.11b/g, WLAN, Gigabit LAN, V.92 Modem, Bluetooth
17.0" WXGA+ (1440 x 900), Acer CrystalBrite Technology