Acer will soon be launched in Japan its Gemstone AS8940G-BR101, computer (more or less) portable. The big beast of the Taiwanese manufacturer is expected to ¥ 199 800 or about € 1779 inc. This fee gives access to what is best in transportation, or almost. Its screen displays Full HD (1920x1080 pixels) on a surface of 18.4 inches. For orders of two million pixels, a GeForce GTS 250M NVIDIA with 1GB of GDDR3. Under the hood, we also find an Intel Core i7-720QM (4C/8T - 1.6 GHz - 6 MB L3) coupled to PM55 Express chipset and 4 GB of DDR3 dual-channel.

It is the amateur video editing and therefore has a large hard drive and 1 Terabyte of a combo Blu-ray. The audio portion is not left with a system to 5.1 channels. The network connectivity Gemstone includes Gigabit LAN, 802.11n WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR. It also has a 1 Megapixel webcam and a memory card reader. It has many ports with FireWire, eSATA, VGA, HDMI and DisplayPort. The big baby Acer measuring 440 × 295 × 31 - 43.8 mm for a weight of 4.6 kilograms. The battery supplied by the manufacturer would provide Taiwanese half past three autonomy, to check ... The Gemstone is provided with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. It will be available in Japan next December 4.

The (very) large machines have much left to envy their counterparts office. We only regret the delay in mobile graphics cards. We find today that the GeForce GTS in 40 SPs with 96 nanometers or less, changes of the 8800 Ultra launched for the PC desktop ... 2006! The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000 is promising, but has never really been available...