Isaiah's Tech

Acer's latest entry, the Aspire One 571, mildly sets itself from the traditional netbook market. The Aspire One 571 has a Vmedia drive, which "uses 32mm Blu-ray discs, loaded inside tiny plastic cartridges, each with 1GB capacity." As you can see in the picture above, the Vmedia drive is located on the left side of the palm-rest.

It's still your traditional netbook though, since it has: a 10-inch display with a 1,280 x 720 resolution (720p), Intel's Atom 1.66GHz N280 CPU, 1GB of RAM, either a 160GB or 250GB HDD, Bluetooth, and WiFi. The netbook will most likely use Windows XP Home, thankfully. As of right now, the pricing and release date hasn't been announced.

[Slash Gear]