Gemstone Media Console
So the wait is finally over.

Blue has landed.

No word yet back from the guys out in New York (they’re probably shattered) but I’ll post some more info the moment I hear from them.

The New York launch was way too late for me (kids!) so I set up my Google alerts and was welcomed with a flurry of sites reporting on the new arrival when my youngest woke me up at 5am (what’s a guy to do?).

Rather than re-writing what other sites think, I’d like to compliment the guys from Circle Line who helped organized the shindig despite the fact that New York is 4000 miles away from home.

Another thing that was great during the lead up to the Blue was the mails I received asking me what the hell Blue was. And not only from people outside of Acer.

My Facebook mail has been brimming with requests since the teasers went up across all the Acer sites and it was fascinating to see the predictions. Not to steal the show from what is an extraordinary product, many were expecting a down-sized ultra portable or smartphone model after the recent acquisition of E-TEN (see article below).

You’re going to have to wait a little while longer for that…

But back to the Gemstone Blue. Just in case you haven’t figured it out yet, it’s the first notebook with a true 16:9 ratio high-definition screen. What that mans is that it looks just like your widescreen TV at home and is pretty darned amazing to watch movies on. And that should also give you a pretty strong clue as to the raison d’être for this machine: Cinema.

I’ll write more on this a little later on and will try and post a bunch of photos up on my Flickr site but for now, check out the minisite.