Stressing that the Acer Group - also encompassing, eMachines, Gateway and Packard Bell - is keen to extol the virtues of competitive pricing and features, Gianpiero Morbello, VP of marketing and branding, announced that it is partnering with AMD and launching a range of PCs under the newly-announced VISION branding for desktop machines.
Arriving with the top-of-the-range VISION Ultimate tag, Acer's Aspire X3400, pictured below, combines the all-AMD triumvirate of Phenom II quad- or hexa-core chips, DirectX11 graphics and 8-series chipsets - a complete platform, therefore - and is geared towards full-HD usage. Expect it to be supported by the usual capacious storage and memory allocation.
The demonstration box of tricks, housed in a small chassis that can be picked up with one hand, brings together a six-core Phenom II X6 1035T, Radeon HD 5570 graphics card, and, depending upon specification, a Blu-ray drive.
Running pretty quietly in an 8.5-litre chassis and powerful enough for most people's needs, the X3400 is an example of where the desktop space is going to - smaller, lighter computers that sacrifice all-out power for a balanced specification.
Acer is unveiling a whole host of new AMD-powered machines, both notebook and desktop, bolstering the company's ties with a tier one manufacturer. We'll bring you more as we have it.
