The Acer Guy

You can’t say I’m biased.

Got a link (no names) to the first “review” of the new Gemstone Aspire notebooks.

It wasn’t all that favourable, but there again the review wasn’t all that good. Particularly as it was from CNet. I was expecting a little more but I guess beggars can’t be choosers.

So far it seems the Gemstone has only negative points against it:

The lid is glossy black, which is there for many a laptops in the market. No points for that.

Emm. no, it’s a unique holographic 3D LCD cover, shaped with graduated curves and a dark sub-layer that sparkles like a finely cut opal gemstone. Hence the name… That’s like saying a Bentley has the same paint job as my two-year old son’s bicycle.

The keyboard is not milky white as the initial pictures depicted. It is greyish to say the least.

Again, did you actually read the press release? It’s called CeramiFinish and those subtle grey tones were chosen by international focus groups because grey is softer on the eyes over time and Aspire users are known for their media-intensive activities.

The design of the notebook chassis with respect to USB ports is not great either. There are some serious flaws here. There are three USB ports on the left side, while a lone USB port on the right side. The silly thing regarding this lone USB port on the right is that it is just 1mm away from the optical drive. If you use any USB device on this port, it will pretty much hinder the opening of the optical drive tray. Bad, Seriously. The USB logo is even printed in the wrong place - above the DVD drive.

You can see for yourselves below.

At the end of the day, we’ve got (maybe) one valid point (USB position) against a host of groundless niggles. So far so good. I guess.

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