Aspire 9800: Trending Toward TyranasaususRex

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Weighing in at a solid 7.8kg, and sporting a massive 20.1 display, this dual core notebook would make an excellent all in one multimedia warhorse. There's probably no need for buying a seperate television, DVD player, gaming console and pc when you own this desktop replacement.

Image of Acer Aspire 9800 notebookNotebooks aresupposed to be ultraportable, and easy to carry across the world. Right? Anybody out there withme? Or are all of you desktop replacers? You know the dementedfolks I'm talking about-the ones who want the mass and multimediaof a desktop computer, but for some reason want it in the form(and I use that word lightly) of a laptop. Of course, no offensemeant. We're all friends here at Laptopical. I must just behaving a bad day. USA just lost in the World Cup, 3 to nil:(
To make itup to you, I will recommend the new Tyranasaurus Rex of desktopreplacement laptops, the Acer Aspire9800. It definitely fits the size requirements for this category:it weighs in at 17-plus pounds with a 20.1-inch display thatmeasures more than an inch thick.

But, oh, what Acer fit into that massive body. The display,first off, comes with Acer's CrystalBrite coating, which is oneof top high-contrast finishes on the market. That means yourgames, DVDs and photos will shine on beyond what you'd expectfrom the resolution. You'll need this quality picture toappreciate the built-in 1.3-megapixel camera, hybrid TV tuner,and DVD/CD burner. (Supposedly, down the road there will even bea high-def DVD drive.)

Built like a brick warehouse, you would also expect this Acerlaptop to have plenty of storage, and actually thedesktop-er, I mean laptop-goesabove and beyond most people's needs. The Aspire 9800 has two120GB hard drives, both set into RAID 0 array, meaning both arepractically 100 percent open for full independent storage. RAID1, on the other hand, would have provided backup storage, andsecurity, but wouldn't give nearly 240GB of space.

And what would be a laptop madein 2006 without a dual-core processor? One possible mix ofcomponents in the 9800 includes an Intel Core Duo T2300 with1.66GHz and 1GB of DDR2 memory, along with an nVidia GeForce GO7600 with 256MB dedicated memory.

Add in nearly every port and card slot under the sun, and youcan understand why this Aspire 9800is as big as the moon - but that's exactly what you desktopreplacers want, right?

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