Acer disrupts desktops with Aspire Revo

MUMBAI, INDIA: India’s third largest PC brand, Acer launched its revolutionary small size desktop Aspire Revo here on Wednesday.

Aspire Revo is the first small form factor PC to offer NVIDIA ION platform. The company claims it be smallest, greenest and fully capable PC that offers high performance, high speed net access, quality streaming of HD, HDMI content and gaming experience.

According to NVIDIA’s senior director Sridharan Manthani, “the disruptive technology allows the small PCs to deliver high performance and demonstrates the power of NVIDIA ION chip that offers great multimedia experience at low price.”

The ION chip has been designed and developed at the company’s center in Bangalore with efforts of over 150 engineers in a span of two years.

NVIDIA’s sales and business development manager for South East Asia, Nishant Goyal said that the change in computers are very important to consumers.

“There was a time when big was considered the ultimate choice, but it has changed and today small is the big thing for consumers. And even with small size performance needs to be delivered,” added Goyal.  

Compared to normal PC, Acer’s Aspire Revo is one third small in size, consumes one third less power and 5-10 times high performance. It consumes about 65 Watts powers and has been certified with Energy Star 5.0 rating.

With the power of GPU (Gnutella Processing Unit) using the 16 core CUDA (Computing Unified Device Architecture) processor, the NVIDIA ION gives 10 times faster graphics performance with full HD support.  

It‘s special mounting system allows to get it attached behind the monitor or display unit that gives more working space and cumbersome free. It has wireless keyboard and mouse with webcam, 5 USB and HDMI ports along eSATA hard drive. 

With one year on-site warranty, Acer is offering Aspire Revo at Rs. 22,999 without the monitor. According to Acer India’s chief marketing officer (CMO) S Rajendra, the price of this latest revolutionary device may reduce by Rs 1000-1500 in next couple of quarters.

“We are focusing on segments such as consumers, small and medium businesses (SMBs), governments and education. We don’t hold back in development irrespective to slowdown. In fact, even with recession, in last six months we numerous models of netbooks, notebooks, desktops, TFTs and projectors in the market,” said Rajendra. 

According to Gartner, in the second quarter 2009, Acer has 13.5 per cent market share world wide, while it grew by 34.3 per cent during 2008-09.