The 8102WLCi and the 8104WLMi, Acer's first Sonoma laptops

By Peter Rojas

Tomorrow's the big day when Intel officially unwraps
Sonoma, their next-generation Centrino chipset you'll probably be sick of reading about by Friday or so. Most of the new laptops sporting Sonoma
(which ups the frontside bus speed to 533MHz and adds DDR2 RAM, a integrated support for 802.11a/b/g WiFi, and over the past few days details have been dribbling out here and there about Sonoma-powered models from
Sony,
BenQ, and
Dell. The latest we've learned about is the Acer TravelMate 8100, which comes in two versions, the 8102WLCi and the 8104WLMi, both of which have a 15.4-inch, 1680x1050 LCD screen, 60GB hard drive, built-in 5-in-1 memory card reader,  an ATI Mobility Radeon X700 graphics card with 128MB of DDR Video RAM, and 802.11a/b/g WiFi. The main differences between the two are that the 8102WLCi has 1.73GHz Pentium M processor, DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive, and 512MB of RAM, while the 8104WLMi rocks a 2GHz Pentium M processor,
DVD-RW Super-Multi drive, and 1GB of RAM.

[Thanks, Mike]

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