Acer ICONIA

Not so long ago mobile computing devices with touch screens were only found in science fiction. Now Acer presents ICONIA, a new concept device set to add a brand new tablet experience, combining the versatility of a conventional 14” form factor with a unique dual-screen layout and highly intuitive all-point multi-touch functionality, which means you, can use all the fingers of your hands to navigate ICONIA.

If you are looking for a different and innovative approach to personal computing, look no further. With its two all-point multi-touch displays Acer ICONIA offers an enhanced content consumption experience and brings the interaction with the tablet to a new level.

Multimedia, entertainment, communication, web browsing and office productivity seamlessly flow across the dual screen, allowing users to set the best scenario for what they are doing. To improve readability of web sites or documents, the window can be spread across both screens. But the dual screen also means you can do one thing in one screen and something else entirely on the other: you can browse a website on the top screen and view the contents of your favorite folder on the bottom one or you can watch a video on the top screen and check out your multimedia library in the other.

“We took this insight and created a range of easy to use devices with touch technology including Smart phones, Notebooks, AIO PCs, Tablet and our latest addition, the ICONIA Touch book: this level of commitment to touch technology is something no other PC vendor can compete with.” states Jim Wong Acer Inc. Vice President and ITGO President. “The Intel® Core™ i5 processor together with our experience with touch technology has allowed us to completely remap the user experience to create a far more natural interaction with our devices.

"Intel is proud that our close collaboration with Acer has helped to deliver the world’s first 10 finger multi-touch dual-screen notebook with an exciting and innovative end-user experience, powered by the Intel® Core™ i5 processor,” said Mooly Eden, vice-president of PC Client Group, Intel Corporation. “Combining the adaptable and energy efficient performance of the Intel® Core™ i5 processor with Acer's Iconia provides new and immersive ways to seamlessly view and interact with your favorite videos, photos, websites and movies”.

Both 14-inch displays have HD 1366x768 resolution, high-brightness Acer Cine Crystal™ LED-backlit TFT LCDs and take advantage of cutting-edge technologies supporting all-point multi-touch for precise on-screen input. Protected by the ultra-thin yet durable Gorilla® Glass, the displays are scratch and fingerprint resistant, easier to clean and offer the same touch functionality.

ICONIA is designed to provide the optimal all-point multi-touch experience on a dual-display tablet. This is why Acer equipped it with a full range of intuitive and easy to use features and applications that fully exploit the countless possibilities of multi-touch technology. The starting point to launch ICONIA’s touch features and controls as well as applications is the Acer Ring.

The Acer Ring appears simply by placing five fingers on the screen and making a grab gesture. The Acer Ring allows you to start touch applications by scrolling through the App cards and tapping on the one you choose. The Ring also provides fast access to: Virtual Keyboard, Gesture Editor, Window Manager, and Device Control Console.

The Virtual Keyboard can be launched from the Acer Ring or by placing both palms on the bottom display. The intelligent design senses the position of the user’s palms and launches the keyboard. It comes with a full-size QWERTY layout with international language support to give users the same experience of a traditional physical keyboard and features predictive text input for natural-speed typing while avoiding mistakes. The Virtual Keyboard also includes a touchpad and a numeric keypad and can be easily switched to handwriting mode. With all these functionalities you won’t miss the traditional physical keyboard!

With the Gesture Editor you can set customized gestures to launch specific applications, open websites, view your desktop or lock your computer. The Gesture Editor offers you a simple and intuitive way to personalize ICONIA to best suit your needs.

Window Manager allows users to organize the various application windows on the double touch screen. Windows and applications can be moved across displays, so you can always have what you need where you need it. Plus, you can browse through a list of running application, and resize, dock or close windows.

A wealth of built-in touch applications designed to easily manage content provides a seamless experience. Besides those already implemented on Acer’s touch devices, such as Touch Browser, Touch Photo, Touch Music and Touch Video, allowing an enhanced browsing experience with on-screen gestures to zoom, rotate, flip and scroll and to access and enjoy your multimedia from an integrated touch-optimized interface, ICONIA includes three new ones: Social Jogger, My Journal and Scrapbook.

Social Jogger lets you gather and check updates from Facebook, YouTube and Flickr in all in the same place, taking advantage of the dual screens to check posts and updates on the bottom display and use the second display for exploring and viewing more content.

You can use My Journal to collect web clippings on your preferred topics. Web clippings are dynamically updated to display all the latest information and can be categorized and displayed according to your needs. Simply tab on a collected Web Clip to display the full webpage on the top screen for a complete access.

Scrapbook lets you easily store clippings, posts and just about anything else from different sources in the same place. You can capture screen shots from the web or an application, edit them and add notes. You can create photo collections with notes and comments. You can also add your scraps to presentations, and documents. Scrapbook helps you keep track of anything you find interesting, funny or valuable and share it!

Acer ICONIA is based on the Intel® Core™ i5 family of processors, delivering smart performance for multimedia, social networking and other demanding mainstream applications.

A fusion of the latest and best technology, ICONIA can also be equipped with 3G connectivity, for total freedom, while an HDMI™ port guarantees high-definition viewing and the Dolby Home Theater v3 provides vibrant audio for an immersive sound experience.

The result? An outstanding entertainment experience!

ICONIA offers an entirely new computing and touch experience. Are you ready?

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Laptops

The costs of notebook computers are decreasing and performance is increasing, it's become easy for single users to equip themselves with notebooks.

But what is a notebook?

A notebook is a concentrate from technologies, the consequence of the "compression" of your desktop personal computer. Laptops are built to be movable, practical comfortable to use, easy to carry, but there is a dark side notebooks are the delicate little sidekicks of desktop personal computer.

The use of a laptop gives the room access to at minimum three risks:

1st trouble, you've to leave your laptop frequently or erstwhile from your home, and that return two great risks:

a). The Physical stroke (drop down)

b). Notebooks could be lost or sneaked.

2nd trouble attributable the concentration of the elements notebooks are hard to cool, this drive a eminent exposition to overheating, and from that consequences a weakening of the elements and a abbreviating of their lifetime.

3rd trouble the laptop hard disc is a miniaturization of the PC hard disk, smaller and weaker than it is big brother, he's exposed to shock and/or shaking damage.

So once you take to a notebook you've to deal that the protection of your data will follow greatly vulnerable.

Mind you essential query yourselves around the value of your information:

-How bequeath it impact you whenever you lose your information?

-What will it cost you in dollars and time consuming to retrieve your data?

-Could you repair this information if you require to?

Therefore you must select from the starting a data backup answer quick and gentle to use, a few software suggest progressive backup, and this is the finest answer for notebooks because progressive backup puts in all data files changed as the last.

Now another very much sensitive part of your laptop is your Keypad and Touchpad. Always have a good care of then as once it becomes faulty or troublesome then it's hard to replace. Never be very much harsh on them as these are the most sensitive part of your Laptop. Once damaged it will hardly be replaced or get repaired so take care about it. Let's have some of the tips how you can take care of your Laptop's Keypad or Touchpad.

1). Never be very much harsh to your Keypad as laptops keypad is a bit different from the Keypads of a conventional Keyboard. Always be very gentle in having a Key press.

2). Never spill oil or water on your Keypad as this will surely damage your laptops Keypad and can hang you work. Always avoid spilling of them.

3). Never try to manually pull out the Keypad buttons as done mostly by the kids. So always keep an eye on your Laptop when kids are working on it.

4). Now touchpad are the most sensitive part and it senses the movement your finger tips very accurately. So try again to be very much gentle in using it. Just apply a nice soft finger press and it will sense it its not required to have a keystroke type press.

5). Also never try to accumulate any greasy or oily substance on your touchpad as this will decrease the sensitiveness of the Touchpad. Also keep them free from dust to accumulate on them.

Always keep these things in your mind before having to operate your Keypad or Touchpad as being the most sensitive part of your Laptops, once damaged then hard to be replaced. After all it’s who can only take care of your Laptop because in return it will offer you with efficient work as well.

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