Acer Ferrari notebooks now available in US

Acer today announced the North American availability of the new Ferrari 1000 and Ferrari 5000 series, a family of notebooks engineered to combine state-of-the-art performance, modern design and supreme reliability, Acer claims.

The Ferrari 1000 and Ferrari 5000 are based on the latest AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology. Harnessing the natural power of the latest dual-core technology, the new Acer systems deliver added performance with intelligent power management features. In addition, the new 64-bit architecture delivers leading-edge power and provides a taste of the performance gains promised by future 64-bit applications.

Ferrari 1000

The Ferrari 1000 is a small notebook with 12,1 inch widescreen Crystalbrite TFT and sports ATI's Radeon Xpress 1150 chipset that an support up to 512MB of hypermemory. The notebook is powered by an AMD X2 Turion processor and has Broadcom wireless 802.11n (draft) on board. To top it all off the Acer Ferrari 1000 has a built in 1.3 megapixel web camera.

The Ferrari 5000 has a 15,4 inch widescreen TFT, and comes bundeld with a Bluetooth VOIP phone, built in webcam, Gigabit ethernet, 802.11b/g wireless. It is available with up to 160GB of hard drisk space and a cardreader can be added as an option as well. The Ferrari 5000 is powered by a AMD X2 Turion processor.

Both the Ferrari 1000 and Ferrari 5000 notebooks can be efficiently managed with Acer Empowering Technology, an intuitive interface that gives users easy control over their notebook's security, performance, settings and communication with a single touch of the Empowering Key.

Both Ferrari series come with Microsoft Windows XP Professional preinstalled. Additional installed software includes Adobe Reader, Norton AntiVirus and CyberLink PowerDVD and Acer GridVista software suite.

The Ferrari 1000 and 5000 notebooks are available through Acer authorized resellers throughout North America with prices starting at $1999 and $2299, respectively.

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