What iF a Laptop Was Designed Right: The Acer TravelMate8200

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The Travelmate 8200, has just received an "International Forum Award", for design, and build quality. Features including a carbon fiber chassis, helped this Acer laptop stand out amongst 2,000 products submitted by companies in thirty seven nations across the globe.


The iF awardsaren't like the happy family television award, or the teen'schoice of the minute award. No, the iF awards have been aroundfor five decades, the whole time acting as a symbol of excellencein design, quality of construction, and trend-setting. When acompany wins one of these International Forum awards, it deservesthe right to toot its own horn. Enter Acer,tooting its horn. Their TravelMate 8200 and 5-Series LCD monitorstook the 2006 iF awards for productdesign.

The TravelMate8200 is an Acer notebook geared for the consumer market. It ridesthe wave of the latest mobile technology, with Intel Centrino Duomicroprocessing power and hot GDDR3 memory. It is loaded withsecurity options to keep the bad guys out, and a 1.3-megapixelWeb camera to beam you to the good guys and gals in Cyberspace.

And while we're talking design, one neat feature of the camera-itspins 225 degrees, without you having to actually rotate thewhole notebook. The TravelMate even looks good, with a cool package built out ofa carbon fiber (first used on the Ferrariseries) that the aerospace industry has been keeping a secret-upuntil now-because of its resilience and low weight.

The Acer 5-Series monitors are fast and furious with an 8msresponse time, so they make gamers happy no matter if they'reusing the 17-, 19-, or 20-inch sized screen. And no matter howtall you are, no matter how stooped you sit, the 5-Series can beadjusted, via a torqued LCD hinge, into three comfortable-to-viewpositions.

The two Acer products beat out nearly 2,000 products from 37countries around the world to top honors in the 2006 iF awardcompetition. Judges considered each product's design, ergonomics,materials, craftsmanship, and, for you tree huggers out there,friendliness to the environment. Needless to say, Acer kickedbutt sufficiently enough in these categories to win out.

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