Acer launches new 'value segment' notebooks

Bangalore

August 24th, 2007

Acer India has announced the launch of its Aspire 4310 and Aspire 4710 series
for the Indian market. The new series is based on the 'Pebble' design. The
Aspire 4310 series uses a Celeron M 520 and has a system memory of 512 MB, an 80
GB hard disk drive and a wide screen. With a LINUX operating system and Combo
drive, the notebook will be available at Rs. 20,999/- (excluding taxes and carry
case). A variant in this series is also available with a 0.3 Mega-Pixel camera
and is priced at Rs. 24,499/- (excluding taxes and carry case).

The Aspire 4710 series comes with an Intel Core2 Duo mobile processor T5500,
a 1GB RAM and a 160 GB hard disk drive. This model runs on the LINUX operating
system, has Bluetooth and is priced at an affordable Rs. 39,499/- (excluding
taxes and carry case). Another variant of this model is the Aspire 4710z, which
runs on the Pentium dual core processor T 2080 and comes fully packed with 1GB
RAM, inbuilt camera and 160 GB hard disk drive. All new notebooks under the new
line up come equipped with Gigabit LAN.

According to S. Rajendran, GM - Sales and Marketing, Acer India said,
"The Acer Aspire 4310 and Aspire 4710 series is part of Acer's initiative
of 'making mobile computing more affordable' and a response to the demand for
low cost and efficient notebooks."