Ouch!
Come on Blu-ray...you better get moving. According to this article over at Stuff
Magazine, not only can you snag an HD-DVD laptop from Toshiba, now you can get
one from Acer.
HD-DVD has just extended its lead over Blu-Ray Utd thanks to a piledriver from Acer; it's just made the second HD-DVD-playing laptop, following Toshiba's G30 last month. If anything, the Aspire 9800 is even more accomplished than Tosh's world first. We may be guilty of over-using the word 'cinematic' to describe screens, but not here '“ it has a 20in, 1680x1050, which is good enough for 1080p high-def. It's naturally got Intel's Dual Core processing '“ which is officially cleverer than Stephen Fry '“ and backs it up with a 240GB hard-drive, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0. Then there's that HD-DVD drive. Such an advanced disc-eater is, of course, useless in these days of zero next-gen releases, but the first films are due this summer. Like the G30, it can't write to HD-DVD discs, but archivists will be able to burn to dual-layer DVDs instead. The 9800's not just a glorified portable video player either '“ there's an integrated analogue and digital TV tuner, 1.3MP camera and 5-in-1 card reader to take care of your multimedia antics. |
Sounds like a pretty nice laptop even without the
HD-DVD! You can read more about it over at Stuff Magazine online.
Source: Stuff Magazine
