Acer's Aspire 9500 With 17 inch Wide-Screen

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Acer have unveiled a feature rich desktop replacement just in time for Christmas shoppers. Highlights include 120GB hard drive capacity, a powerful 2.26Ghz processor, and a 17 inch CrystalBrite screen.

Thanks tothe success of desktop replacements such as Toshiba's Qosmio, andSony's VAIO A690, multimedia laptops seem to be all the rage of late. Now Acer is steppingup confidently to the plate with their own contender, the Aspire9500 series.

Withoutdoubt, the Ferrari4000 notebook was a real breakthrough for Acer in 2005. The Turionpowered Ferrari's cutting edge design, and carbon fiber chassis(world first for a laptop), garnered positive reviews not justfrom Acer fanboys, but from many of the world's tech press.

For the Aspire 9500 series, (9502WSMi, 9503EWSMi, and 9504WSMi notebooks) Acer decided to bypass AMD this time, and go with Intel's second generation Centrino platform - Sonoma. Indeed, Acer 9500 notebooks are available with processors up to2.26Ghz. Add to that hard drive storage space of 120GB, and up to2GB of ram, and you can see that the 9500 is a serious desktopreplacement.

When you consider the Aspire's panoramic 17 inch widescreen (CrystalBrite) display, with 1440 x 900 pixel resolution,it hardly takes an exclusive Baker Street address and assistancefrom Dr Watson to deduce the motive for the 9500 - TV and DVDwatching, game playing, music composition, and image editing.This is confirmed when you learn that the Aspire 9500 also comeswith an integrated DVD-Dual double layer drive, 2.1 channelspeakers with built-in subwoofer, and an optional analog anddigital television tuner.

Acer have bundled some interesting extras with the 9500. Firstoff eDataSecurity Management, is a file encryption utility thatprotects files from being accessed by unauthorized users.Another useful tool, eRecovery Management, acts as a standalonebackup and recovery manager. The Aspire 9500 also features Acer'scheesy sounding "Empowering Key". Clicking repeatedly won't transformyou into He-Man, but Acer state it should let you speedily accessfrequently used functions and settings on your laptop.

The Aspire 9500 3.6kg chassis is stacked with a host of portsincluding a PCMCIA Card slot, 5 USB 2.0 ports, DVI-D slot, ExpressCard port, IEEE1394 slot, Infrared port, CIR slot, VGA port, S-video/Tv-out, andan Ethernet slot.

The benchmark test jury is still out on the Aspire 9500 line, it'sunlikely to be the runaway success of the popular Ferrari series.Still there are enough features here to ensure that these Aspirenotebooks will be popular stocking fillers come Christmas2005.

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  • By: James C. Schones Jul 03, 2009 1:42 AM

    My computer crashed; F12 screen shows different ways of booting, but nothing works. The computer keeps coming to the screen that gives me a choice of F2 or F12; nothing works. Is there anything else that I can do to get it running.

  • By: Emilie Cassidy May 05, 2009 3:03 PM

    I purchased the Aspire 9500 in 2005 and have had zero problems, I love it!! This is my first lap top.

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