Preview: Acer TravelMate C200

Infosync World has the latest on the Acer TravelMate C200. I love the idea of tablet notebooks, but they are all looking and functioning the same, and all with the same problems. Could this release from Acer solve that with its innoivations? Who knows, but atleast we have some details on what’s new with the C200.

Throwing a pinch of innovation into the troubled Tablet PC mix, Acer’s newest convertible has a tendency to confuse those used to the old swivel-and-tilt paradigm. Shedding the swivel in favour of slide, the C200 sports a display which slides backwards and tilts upwards to a 125-degree angle to reveal the keyboard; it’s an eye-catcher, and also feels surprisingly sturdy despite a somewhat flimsy look.

The 12.1-inch XGA display of the unit delivered the goods - indoors, at least - as far as display qualities were concerned, but what really catches the eye is the option of having the C200 configured with an Nvidia GeForce Go 6200 chipset with 256 MB of VRAM. As much as my inner geek is salivating, however, the more sensible option of a bog-standard Intel 915GM chipset is probably the better one as the processor of the C200 could never keep up with the Go 6200 anyway. Oh, and lest I forget, the Intel chipset can draw up to 128 MB of memory from the main banks.

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