Desktop mini-Pk Acer Aspire X1200
The last months the hottest theme in a category of ready systems, unconditionally, remained mini-notbuki. Meanwhile, desktop personal computers while it is manufactured more than mobile, therefore there was a natural question — when among desktop personal computers there will be such product what for minilaptops became ASUS Eee PC?
It is known intention ASUS to repeat the success with minilaptops in the market of the desktop computers, supported with recent debut Eee Box. Similar mini-Pk Wind companies MSI should appear in Septemer. However, similar, present blow was put by company Acer which has presented mini-Pk Acer Aspire X1200 which is positioned in a role of the entertaining centre and in a base configuration there are $450.
Instead of using processor Intel Atom with its limited productivity and other components of the same level, engineers Acer have constructed Aspire X1200 on the high-grade desktop platform easily coping with reproduction of video of high clearness and modern games. Thus dimensions of the system block differ from mentioned above MSI Wind a little: the sizes of case Acer Aspire X1200 are approximately equal 27 h 10 h 36,5 sm, the sizes of case MSI Wind make 26 h 6,5 h 30 sm; about the same sizes has ASUS Eee Box.
Besides compactness, the important lines of a novelty are attractive appearance and the rich set of extenders including two slota PCI Express (х1 and х16), nine (!) ports USB 2.0, port IEEE 1394 and the system for work with flash cards. Use dvuh’yadernyih processors AMD and chipset NVIDIA GeForce 8200 with support PureVideo HD and Microsoft DirectX 10 allows to look video of high clearness (up to 1080p; the HD-display is connected by means of interface HDMI) and to play modern games. Sound multichannel subsystem HD Audio (7.1) is equipped by sockets for connection of ear-phones, a microphone, a receiver, acoustic system, writes iXBT.
(The recommended price to the USA $450) enter into a configuration of model Acer Aspire X1200-U1520A processor AMD Athlon X2 4850e, 4 GB memories DDR2, the winchester in volume 320 GB with interface SATA II and optical store DVD SuperMulti (16x DvDyoR/Rw, DVD-RAM, Double-Layer). Standing on $10 model Acer Aspire X1200-U1510A is more expensive has processor AMD Athlon X2 5000 +. For $700 it is possible to acquire model Acer Aspire X1200-B1581A with processor AMD Athlon X2 4850e, 500-GB the winchester and the 22-inch large-format monitor. Computers are completed with acoustic systems, keyboards and mice, and also OS Windows Vista Home Premium 64 with SP1, Microsoft Office 2007 (the fact-finding version), Adobe Reader, CyberLink PowerDVD and Arcade Live (a package for viewing and editing of multimedia materials and record of optical disks).
