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Features
Below is a brief summary of the computer’s many features:
Operating system
q Windows
®
Vista
TM
Ultimate
q Windows
®
Vista
TM
Home Premium
q Windows
®
Vista
TM
Home Basic
q Windows
®
Vista
TM
Starter
Platform and memory
q AMD Better By Design program, featuring:
• AMD Turion™ 64 X2 dual-core mobile technology TL-66 / TL-64 / TL-60 / TL-56 / TL-52 (1 MB L2
cache, 2.3 GHz / 2.2 GHz / 2.0 GHz / 1.8 GHz / 1.6 GHz GHz, supporting AMD HyperTransport®
technology (for selected models)
• Mobile AMD Sempron™ 3500+/3600+/3800+ (1.8/ 2.0/2.2 GHz, 512/256/256KB L2 cache),
supporting AMD HyperTransport® technology (for selected models)
• NVIDIA nForce® 630M chipset
q Acer InviLink™ 802.11b/g Wi-Fi CERTIFIED® solution, supporting Acer SignalUp™ wireless
technology
q Up to 2GB of DDR2 533/677 MHz memory, upgradeable to 4GB using two soDIMM modules
(dual-channel support)
Display and graphics
q 17" WXGA + high-brightness (200-nits) Acer CrystalBrite™ TFT LCD, 1440 x 900 pixel resolution,
supporting simultaneous multiwindow viewing via Acer GridVista™
q NVIDIA GeForce® 8400M GS/GE with up to 1024MB of Turbocache™ (256MB of dedicated
GDDR2 VRAM, up to 768MB of share system memory), supporting NVIDIA® PureVideo™
technology (WMV HD, High Definition MPEG-2 Hardware Acceleration), Microsoft DirectX 9 and
DirectX 10, OpenEXR High Dynamic Range (HDR) technology, and PCI Express® (for selected
models)
q NVIDIA GeForce® 7000M with up to 896MB of Turbocache™ (256MB of dedicated system
memory, up to 640MB of share system memory), Microsoft DirectX 9 and PCI Express (for
selected models)
q Dual independent display support
q 16.7 million colors (for selected models)
q MPEG-2/DVD hardware-assisted capability (acceleration) / (full decode) (for selected models)
q WMV9 (VC-1) and H.264 (AVC) support (acceleration) / (full decode) (for selected models)
q S-video/TV-out (NTSC/PAL) support
q DVI-D (true digital video interface) with High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) support
(for selected models)
q Acer Arcade™ featuring Acer CinemaVision™ and Acer ClearVision™ technologies
Storage subsystem
q One or two 80/120/160/250 GB or larger hard disk drives
System Specifications
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