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Acer announces its Web Surf Station monitor
TAIWANESE HARDWARE OUTFIT Acer has announced that its Web Surf Station monitor capable of web surfing without a PC will be available next month for £299.
The Web Surf Station, or DX241H, is a PC monitor that allows users to surf the Internet and access multimedia content without the need to be connected to your PC, all by using an integrated network interface and its own embedded operating system and web browser.
The monitor has a 24-inch TFT display with full HD 1920x1080 resolution, an aspect ratio of 16:9 and an 80,000:1 contrast ratio. Acer says that the display response time of the DX241H is 2ms.
The monitor has abundant connectivity and will offer VGA and HDMI ports, Audio In/Out ports, a USB port, a card reader, an Ethernet port and WiFi. The monitor also has integrated speakers, which could be a handy feature for watching video.
We've contacted Acer to find out what powers the monitor, network interfaces and web browser as nothing in the specifications mention a processor or an operating system, and we'll let you know how it works when we find out.
What we do know is that the monitor runs Acer's Clearfi media sharing system that allows users to share content like photos and videos between devices over a home network. µ
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I'm a bit confused here... it says you can access the web without a computer... yet this is a computer monitor. Who would buy a computer monitor and NOT a computer to go with it? It also says it's cloud-based.. so that means no direct storage is available... or are you able to connect an external drive? If it's cloud-based, does that mean you have to pay for a subscription to something or pay for online storage? Most media players are unable to handle, for instance, .mkv files.. or subtitles properly... or even allow the user to change the aspect ratio of a video. Will that me allowed or integrated? What happens should Acer decide not to support this product anymore because they aren't making enough money with it? Will the "servers" powering this be shutdown after a few months with nothing left but a plain PC monitor? All these questions... so few answers..
OIC, so any word of acer yet what OS it then runs on?
What's with the lack of information of manufacturers lately anyway? It's easier to get freaking 250K secret US documents than some basic info on released commercial devices.
I guess even consumers need to sign a NDA to know what they bought now.
Interesting widget. But they've given me the perfect excuse to not buy one. The monitor resolution is 1920x1080. As opposed to 1920x1200. Yes, I know. It's only missing 120 vertical pixels. But I'm choosing to vote with my money. My vote is "no".
Sorry W.-, but the article you linked to has been updated.
"UPDATE
As we mentioned earlier, this story was just breaking and we were still scrambling around to find the most up to date information. It seems like this device will not feature Chrome OS but rather the Chrome Browser. It is yet unclear how Acer plans to achieve this."
"the first ever Chrome OS powered device which is surprisingly a monitor"
Source: http://chromeossite.com/2011/02/21/acer-announces-dx241h-first-chrome-os-device/
Throw an RDP client on there and I'd take one