Theaters now regularly show 3-D movies, with meatballs and ghosts popping off the screen, and companies in Japan and Korea are starting to sell 3-D TVs for the living room. And now a third screen is going 3-D: the laptop’s.
Acer, the Taiwanese PC maker, has introduced a full-size laptop, the Acer 5738DG, that shows off 3-D content such as movies or games.
Just put on a pair of those strange wraparound glasses like the ones you get in theaters. A pair is packed with the computer.
It may be a novelty, but differentiation is the name of the PC game, and Acer, which recently became the world’s second-largest PC seller after Hewlett-Packard, is seeking new gains. The $780 Acer laptop with its TriDef 3D package includes a specially coated 15-inch screen and software to create the illusion of depth. The TriDef application also converts old-fashioned 2-D into 3-D in games and other applications supporting Microsoft’s DirectX 9 (and above) software. It is being sold with 4 giga bytes of system memory and a 320- gigabyte hard drive.
And yes, it comes with Windows 7. Stephen Williams
