Acer Announces Two Notebooks in the Aspire Ethos Range

Acer is adding some more mettle to their already-existing, huge range of laptops by bringing in the 8951G and the 5951G notebooks. Belonging to the Aspire Ethos series, these laptops seem to be well-equipped, at least in terms of features and specifications.

Both the 5951G and the 8951G will be featuring Core i processors and graphic cards from NVIDIA?s stable GeForce GT500, to be precise. While the 5951G has an HD display with a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels, the 8951G will have a Full HD 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution and both of these displays are encased in scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass.

The new Aspire Ethos notebooks also boast of Dolby Home Theater v4 solutions. The 8951G has five Dolby-tuned built-in speakers and Acer is own Tuba CineBass subwoofer. On the other hand, the 5951G will support 5.1-channel surround sound with built-in stereo speakers and with the Acer Tuba CineBass booster. Rest of the specifications include an option between a Blu-Ray or an optical drive, USB ports, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and what Acer calls as big sized HDD for storage purposes.

Acer has announced the introduction of two new Aspire Ethos laptops, these are the 5951G with a 15.6 inch display and the 8951G with an 18.4 inch display. Acer have built these machines based on the Intel Huron River platform, they have an nice backlit chiclet keyboard as well as the interesting feature of a detachable touch pad, when removed it acts as a remote control, which is cool.

As far as features go both the Ethos 5951G and 8951G laptops will be powered by the 2nd generation Intel Core family processors, graphics come the nVidia GeForce GT500 series discrete graphics card, there are also super fast USB 3.0 ports built in. Acer have included an Instant On Arcade key for fast booting, which is great news for people on the move and there is even a charging station too, this is the blue coloured USB port, which is handy for charging USB powered devices even when these laptops have been powered down.