Acer Iconia

Acer Iconia, first laptop with two touch screens

Acer is preparing to market a new laptop with two touch screens of 14 inches each. A world premiere. Acer Iconia should arrive in U.S. early in the year 2011 and its price should be around 2300 $.

The first notebook PC with 2 touch screens

Acer consistently shows very innovative in the computer field. The Taiwanese manufacturer has just created a small sensation in New York by presenting a new model of laptop has 2 touch screens of 14 inches each. What constitutes a world first. According to user needs, the two screens can display either Acer Iconia the same content, two different contents. This will make it possible to read messages on one screen and surf the Internet or watch a video on the second screen. That's what's called multitasking. The two screens of the new Acer laptop display resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels.

2 touch screens, virtual keyboard

The lack of physical keyboard on the Acer will be offset by Iconia a virtual keyboard that is displayed when the user put his hands on the screen. If the user uses one hand, this will be the interface Acer Ring, designed to facilitate the launch of touch-mode applications will be displayed. Remains to be measured for use if the presence of two touch screens is truly a winning ergonomic for the user, once the first excitement of novelty subsided.

Intel Core i5

Regarding facilities, the Acer Iconia will be offered in several configurations. It will run under a choice of Intel Core i5-480M, 560M or 580M combined up to 4 GB of DDR3 RAM. The hard drive capacity it will vary from 320, 500, 640 to 750 GB The graphic will be entrusted to an integrated card Intel GMA HD with 128MB dedicated memory efficient enough to allow you to watch videos in HD.
3G connections and HDMI included

The laptop with 2 touchscreens Iconia Acer have all the necessary connections to start with Gigabit Ethernet and wireless Wi-Fi b / g / n and Bluetooth 3.0 complemented by 3G. His connections include the necessary HDMI for transferring data in HD to a larger screen, for example, a VGA video port, two USB 2.0 ports and one USB 3.0 and a high-resolution webcam to engage in videoconferencing.

A prize of 2300 $ ?

With dimensions of 34.7 x 24.8 x 3.2 cm and weighs 2.8 kg, the Acer Iconia really does not look like a laptop to carry around with you always. Autonomy rather weak announced three hours do not intend either to accompany you wherever you go. The new Acer laptop is announced for early 2011 and its price should be around 2300 $ That does not rank among the cheap laptops, but the price of a world first. To get an idea of what looks like a laptop with two touch screens, you can watch the video below cons.