Acer Ferrari One – It’s a Red Laptop With A Badge : TechMamba

Acer Ferrari One – It’s a Red Laptop With A Badge

Malcolm Owen On September 25, 2009 at 7:51 pm

Do you like Ferrari? Do you want to display your love for the car manufacturer without breaking the bank on one of their fast and oh-so-wantable cars? Well, how about the Ferrari One from Acer…

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It’s a red laptop with the Ferrari logo on it. Sure, it’s got an 11.6″ screen, sound stuff with Dolby on it, ATiRadeon HD 3200 pushing the graphics, Wifi to N, 3G to go and Windows 7 costing from £399, but it doesn’t get away from the fact that it’s got the damn Ferrari badge on it and therefore will only be bought by extreme Ferrari fans and parents getting their son a computer but doesn’t know anything about laptops and thinks that the badge is a good sign.

Your value of the badge may vary…

Full press release after the jump.

London, 24th September 2009 – Acer today presented the world’s most exclusive netbook series: the Ferrari One. Full of exquisite details and features that celebrate the world’s most prestigious racing heritage, the Ferrari One is dedicated to those who see beyond perfection.

Passionate
The Ferrari One, with its racing red cover proudly displaying the Scudetto Ferrari that has dominated Formula One since the very first race, is quite simply the world’s most exclusive netbook, designed and created with the same passion and technological experience the drives two of the world’s finest brands.

Exquisite
First you see it.
With a 11.6″ high-definition 1366×768 pixel resolution, ultra-thin and light form factor, true-cinematic aspect ratio (16:9) Acer CineCrystal LED LCD display for true HD entertainment driven by VISION technology from AMD and support for simultaneous multi-window viewing via Acer GridVista™ the image quality of the Ferrari One might take some getting used to.

And then you hear it.

The Ferrari One speakers are specially engineered to optimize an enhanced audio quality – each pair fine-tuned by Dolby Laboratory. The advanced audio tuning technologies featuring Dolby® Home Theater ® v3 delivers a true cinema-style experience in vibrant surround sound, Dolby® Home Theater ® v3 features:
• Dolby Pro Logic® IIx that expands stereo or 5.1-channel audio from movies, music, TV, or games to 6.1-or 7.1-channel playback on machines built to support it as well as changing stereo content to a 5.1, 6.1, or even 7.1 surround sound listening experience.
• Dolby Headphone that simulates 5.1-channel surround sound through any stereo headphones.
• Sound Space Expander that dramatically widens the perceived field of sound and opens up your digital sound experience.
• Natural Bass that extends speaker bass response by up to an octave without distortion or risk of damage to any components.
• Dolby Digital Live that converts any audio signal from a PC into Dolby Digital for easy connection to home theater systems.
• High-Frequency Enhancer that improves high frequencies for a stunningly real sound experience and Audio Optimization that corrects common audio problems caused by the physical limitations of laptops.

Performance
In the true spirit of the Ferrari racing team, the Acer Ferrari One combines powerful performance and extreme portability with excellence of design.

Inspired by the unmatched Ferrari heritage, the Ferrari One is driven by a truly sensational engine. At its heart, the Second Generation AMD Ultrathin Platform for notebooks with VISION technology delivers highly responsive, balanced multi-tasking performance with the AMD Athlon™ X2 Dual-Core Processor L310 featuring low-power CPU design, DDR2 800 MHz, and AMD HyperTransport™ 3.0 technology for best balance of performance on-the-go while lasting extended battery life to go fast and far beyond. ATiRadeon™ HD 3200 Graphics provides high-def visual pleasure and exquisite image quality coupled with up to 4GB of DDR2 667MHZ system memory makes light work of the pre-installed 64bit Microsoft Windows 7® Home Premium or Windows 7® Home Home Basic A large capacity, (160 GB or larger) hard disk drive provides plenty of storage space.

With the Ferrari One you never lose connection thanks to the Acer InviLink™ Nplify™ 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ network connection, supporting Acer SignalUp™ wireless technology for optimum reception and connectivity and Bluetooth® 2.1+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate). In addition, depending on specification, the Ferrari One is also 3G-ready for maximum connectivity on the move. The Ferrari One also features the Acer Video Conference solution that includes the low-light enhanced Crystal Eye webcam for super-clear VoIP call quality, even in noisy environments.

Experience
A Ferrari is not just about speed. It is an expression of beauty, power, excitement and pleasure. A Ferrari exudes excellence from the original concept to the finished product and the Ferrari One offers the same sensations down to the finest detail.

The exclusive Ferrari-engraved touchpad offers multi-gesture functionality for ultrafast navigation, including the possibility to scroll up and down when surfing the web pages, viewing documents, navigating files, checking music playlists, viewing photos up or down, pinch to zoom-in or zoom-out in various applications such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, and Google Earth, flip back-and-forth through photos, web pages, PDF documents, Microsoft Office documents or media albums by sliding two fingers and also rotate images while viewing pictures.

The Ferrari experience extends to the super responsive keyboard which features a dedicated key that instantly launches the web browser and connects to www.ferrari.com so you’re never more than a keystroke away from your driving passion.

The Ferrari One netbook comes with 64bit Microsoft Windows 7® Home Premium or Windows 7® Home Basic preinstalled and has a SRRP of £399 inc Vat.