Acer Announces Aspire One 532g, With NVIDIA Optimus Tech and Next-Gen NVIDIA Ion
Showing how mobility, cell phones, and netbooks overlap, Acer has just announced the Acer Aspire One 532G netbook at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The 532G is the first netbook with dedicated next-generation NVIDIA ION 2 graphics acceleration. The machine also is enabled with NVIDIA's recently announced Optimus technology to balance multimedia performance when needed, along with battery life savings, seamlessly switching to integrated Intel Atom/Pinetrail graphics when it's not required. Word is Ion 2 is going to be outfitted with twice the number of shaders for even more graphics horsepower as well.
The Hi-Def 532G netbook will allow content to be played through its own display at 720p. Alternatively, users can connect the 532G's HDMI output to a secondary Hi-Def TV/LCD monitor to view Hi-Def at a 1080p resolution.
Other details: the Aspire One 532G will be powered by a 1.66GHz N450 Atom processor, have 2GB RAM, a 320GB HDD and a 10-inch high-resolution display. As you would expect it also comes with Wi-Fi and optional 3G. Acer said in its press release that the 532G will have battery life of up to 10 hours.
The 532G will come in three colors, Pearl Silver, Ruby Red and Sapphire Blue, and will ship at the end of March. Pricing is still unknown. The netbook measures 1-inch thick and weighs in at 1 kg.
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