Acer launches WiMAX-enabled Aspire 4930-6862 / 6930-6771 notebooks

by Darren Murph posted Oct 8th 2008 at 4:23PM

Hot on the heels of Lenovo comes Acer, which is somehow claiming "first!11one!" in the US market with WiMAX-enabled laptops. Introduced today in Baltimore in conjunction with the formal unveiling of Sprint's XOHM network, the Aspire 4930-6862 and Aspire 6930-6771 both include the innate ability to hop on a WiMAX network and surf at 4G speeds. As for specs, the former packs a 14.1-inch WXGA panel, 2GHz Core 2 Duo T7350 CPU, 3GB of RAM, WiFi / WiMAX capability, integrated graphics, a dual-layer DVD writer, 320GB SATA HDD, 5-in-1 card reader, built-in webcam, Windows Vista Premium and an $899.99 sticker. The larger 6930 differs only in the 16-inch 1,366 x 768 resolution panel, as everything else (price included) remains the same. Charm City residents can snatch 'em up right now at NewEgg and TigerDirect.

[Via DigitalTrends]

Filed under: Wireless

Tags: 4930-6862, 4G, 6930-6771, Acer, aspire, baltimore, broadband, internet, mobile broadband, mobile internet, MobileBroadband, MobileInternet, Sprint, WiMAX, wwan, XOHM

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kali4 @ Oct 9th 2008 9:30AM

Hot on the heels of Lenovo comes Acer, which is somehow claiming "first!11one!"

Damnit! I can't find the vote down button!

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katalistic @ Oct 8th 2008 4:52PM

You guys got a typo.....(with the ones)

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GM @ Oct 8th 2008 5:07PM

and apparently yahoo is reporting that the Aspire 4930-6862 has a FSB of 106600 MHz... pretty good for the price I guess.

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Shadyman @ Oct 8th 2008 5:14PM

Um, wow. Left-handed laptop? Look at the position of the touchpad...

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offroadering @ Oct 8th 2008 6:07PM

after further inspection of the photo, one is led to belive that this laptop is packing a 10 Key Number Pad... thus resulting in the track pad being moved to the center of the QWERTY key board

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JohnTitor @ Oct 8th 2008 7:17PM

but I still don't get why companies do that, I'd rather have the darn thing moved all the way to the right corner, then again I also prefer the pointer stick to the touchpad

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Jeff @ Oct 9th 2008 12:25AM

They do it because ergonomically, the center of the QWERTY keyboard is the best place for the touchpad.

You may not touch-type (in the sense of actually doing it properly), as I don't either, but if you did, your hands would rest on the keyboard in such a way that the center is the only place that putting the touchpad made sense.

This is one reason I dislike laptops with numeric keypads, though. I'm already typing off to the left on a laptop *without* a numeric keypad - I'm not directly in front of the screen. On a laptop like this, you're sitting way off to the left, by design. It's a major intentional design flaw. I'm not sure what they can do about this; maybe make the numeric keypad some sort of popout thing or something that sits off to the right of the PC and can be stowed when not in use. I honestly don't find myself wanting for a keypad very often; only when gaming or doing spreadsheets, really.

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