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Acer and Nvidia, brought to you in 3D
ACER IS DOING the 3D tango with Nvidia for its mid-range gaming laptop.
Acer's Aspire 5745DG comes with Nvidia's active shutter 3D Vision technology this time around. The company was one of the first to market with a 3D Acer laptop that was out last year.
However, Acer made the mistake of coming up with its own technology, not unlike the passive shutter offering on Zalman's 3D monitor that we reviewed. It used a 3D coating on the screen to produce the effect.
Apparently it didn't sell too well, so Acer jumped ship, going over to Nvidia and bundling active shutter polarised glasses and an IR receiver. That means you'll be forking out another £100 for more glasses this time around.
The Aspire 5738DG has a 15.6-inch chassis with an LED backlit screen and a native resolution set to full HD. As we're talking Nvidia 3D Vision here the display also has the obligatory 120Hz refresh rate so it can cope with displaying the 3D image.
Acer is providing a mid-range Geforce GT 425M graphics card for the job to keep costs down, though it will have an array of Intel Core i7, i5 and i3 CPUs to choose from. It also supports up to 16GB of RAM, so Acer has kept things scalable to sell into a range of price brackets.
For your cash, Acer has given the Aspire 5738DG 802.11n WiFi, HDMI-out, Bluetooth 3.0 and a 1280x1024 webcam for video conferencing.
Acer didn't give out a release date or prices yet or, for that matter, any pics for us to have a look at. µ
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3d is like fusion technology, it's a futuristic technology, and probably always will be.
I think what's truly needed for it to even hope to succeed, would be passive shutter lenses that don't make you look like a total dork. You would need to be able to slide them over regular glasses and it would also help if people could have the glasses custom made if they didn't already have vision problems that required glasses. Optimally, they'd be able to work with the screen to suppress the proper images, but appear totally clear to the casual observer.
Yeah, give it another few decades and about 4-5 refresh attempts that absolutely fail to deliver.
The truth is that 3D is the marketing flavor of the month, end of story.
L'INQ, please fix your rss, the title of the article still appears as "Acer and Nvidia, bought to you in 3D" on the rss feed
offtopic: comment captcha is HVINQR
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Remember these are laptops bob, so the screens on them will probably only go to 1366x768. Not what I would call a huge resolution yeah? The 425M should be fine to handle 3D at those settings.
I wonder how well the video card would actually handle this with modern games. 3D requires double the frame rate, is the 425M really up to that task?
I have no doubt that the 425M is capable of handling regular graphics fine. I seriously question it's ability when used with 3D on anything modern.