Isaiah's Tech

In early April we heard about the Acer Aspire Ethos 5943G and the 8943G notebooks. Well, Acer has been nice enough to display both of these notebooks at Computex and Engadget was good enough to approach them and try it out for us. Both models featured an Intel Core i7-720QM CPU, Blu-ray drives, an 8-cell battery, and the awesome trackpads. Engadget points out that the black dual-mode trackpad - "it's a standard touchpad until you press the circular button between the buttons, after which is turns into the system's multimedia controls.

The 15.6-inch 5943G notebook features 4GB of DDR3 RAM and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 graphics, while the 18.4-inch 8943G notebook features 8GB of DDR3 RAM along with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 graphics. Both notebooks should be available fairly soon (in the UK, at least) and you might want to save up a little bit of money for either of them.

[Engadget]

Well it looks like Acer has just announced a new Aspire Ethos line-up of notebooks. The Aspire Ethos 8943G and 5943G sport 18-inch (1,920 x 1,080 resolution) and 15.6-inch (1,366 x 768 resolution) displays, respectively, along with Intel Core i5 / i7 CPU options and ATI Mobility Radeon HD5000 graphics. They also boast Dolby Home Theater surround sount support, up to 1.28TB of HDD storage (two 640GB HDDs), DVD / Bu-ray optical drives, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, eSATA / USB / FireWire / Ethernet / HDMI / VGA ports, a fingerprint reader, an integrated webcam, and Windows 7.

Of course, the price and release date information hasn't been mentioned yet, so we'll have to wait around for that. However, I can't see these notebooks being low-priced - they're looking quite thin as well.

Update: According to Maximum PC, both models will be sporting an integrated display on the touchpad. If you're interested in what that looks like there's a picture of it below. The Ethos 8943G will reportedly be available in the UK at the end of June for around $1,675, while the Ethos 5943G will be available in Q3 of this year.

Update: Electricpig just got their hands-on the 8943G notebook here, so check it out.

[Slash Gear]