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Fashion Statement: Acer Aspire Predator Snares Design Award

Posted 01/13/09 at 02:50:10 PM  by Paul Lilly

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and when the beholders are judges from Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), Acer's Aspire Predator G7000 series gaming PC has all the right curves. The rig's menacing aesthetics earned Acer WinHEC 2008's Industrial Design award, with one judge saying one look is all that's needed to know that the Predator G7000 is intended for gamers. The judge also noted the PC likely won't win favor among female consumers, but said that wasn't a bad thing, given that Acer's design nails its target audience.

From a hardware standpoint, the Predator G7000 comes with the option of either an overclocked AMD Phenom X4 or Intel Core 2 Quad processor, up to 8GB of DDR2-1066 RAM, and support for either ATI's CrossFire X or Nvidia's SLI dual-videocard technology. But it's the funky orange chassis with a mechanical bezel for easy access to four 3.5-inch HDD bays that ultimately won Acer the award.

Acer also won a Media & Entertainment award for its Aspire 8920G notebook with Blu-ray and full HD, and an Internet award for it's Aspire one Netbook.

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TAGS: gaming, OEM, rigs, prebuilt, acer aspire predator, winhec 2008, award, G7000
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avatarUT

Submitted by mikemckay on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 11:09am

reminds me of the robots from unreal tournament 2003

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avatarthe paint color is ugly as

Submitted by -it- on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 4:29pm

the paint color is ugly as hell, if i ever bought it the first thing i would do is paint it over

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avatarA motorised case like this

Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 1:46pm

A motorised case like this is Okay. A case that transforms into a freaking MechWarrior when I shut the system down to protect the house would be freaking awesome. You tell your MechWarrior PC that it's time to get some work done or play a game and your mech transforms into a beige box and loads Windows 7 Beta so you can get some Left4Dead gaming on.

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avatarIf it came in black I might

Submitted by b_boy_69_00 on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 1:26pm

If it came in black I might think about it, but not in orange

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avatarcase

Submitted by emepror on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 1:18pm

-.- why cant i just have the dang case?????????

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avatarUGLY!!

Submitted by VoodooChicken on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 1:16pm

I'm all for innovation, but this isn't it.

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Look behind you! A THREE-headed monkey!!!!!!!!

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avatarIn-Win

Submitted by Laterun on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 3:40am

Hey - check out the In Win B2 Stealth Bomber enclosure ; it's black and has a motorized front panel similar but cooler.

      http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1419/1/in_win_b2_stealth_bomber_mid_tower_case/index.html

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