I can't quite place it, but these leaked photos of Acer's upcoming Aspire 3951 are curiously familiar. The ultrabook, which weighs just 1.4kg and measures 13mm at its fattest point, should hit stores in October.
Even the features of this light-as-Air laptop give me a sense of déjà vu. It has a 13.3-inch screen, wakes from sleep in just 1.7 seconds and has a battery that will last for six hours when awake and 30 days when snoozing. The wedge-shaped case is made from aluminum, the keyboard is in the “sunken chiclet” style, the trackpad is huge, the drive can be specced as an SSD and there's no optical disk player.
If only I could remember what it reminds me of. It's on the tip of my tongue…
There are a few things in here that seem less familiar. The ports are around the back, making them tricky to reach (such a tiny machine is unlikely to be chained to a desk and permanently attached to peripherals), and it packs in an HDMI port as well as Dolby Home Theater sound.
According to SOHOA — the Vietnamese Web site which carries the leaked photos — the price will be between 16 and 20 million Dong, or $770 to $960. That sounds pretty good, but of course Acer won't sell anybody because, as Acer founder Stan Shih said last week, ultrabooks, along with tablets, are nothing more than a passing fad.
But the best part of this story is the complete hash that Google translate makes of the first comment on the original SOHOA post. I usually try to keep away from teasing machine translators, but this one is just too good:
Few bananas a little silver question, this little baby if you want to use the lamp is connected via any children?
MacBook Air rivals coming out from Acer [SOHOA via Engadget]
source: Gadget Lab
