The timing and price are up in the air, but Acer’s next high-end gaming notebook will be the first using DirectX 11 graphics. It’s also going to be insane.
Fudzilla’s reporting that the Aspire 8942G-728G1280TWN is going to be a beast, shipping with a Core i7 processor at 1.6GHz, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, and the all-important ATI Radeon HD5850 graphics card. The other specs are equally over the top—18.4″ 1980×1080 LED display, two 640GB hard drives, 8-cell battery—but what we’re most excited about are graphics like this:
https://gizmodo.com/ati-radeon-hd-5800-series-is-first-to-support-directx-1-5366053
Expect it on the market in early 2010 for a whole lot of cash. It also weighs over 10 pounds, so make sure to lift with your legs. [Fudzilla]
