At its New York City event yesterday, Acer announced its new E-series notebooks that are available with either a 14-inch or 15.6-inch display. While these are budget machines aimed towards cost conscious buyers such as students, they still can be configured with some higher-end components like discreet graphics, Haswell CPU’s, touch and Full HD panels. Like the many of the other Acer products announced at the event, the E-series notebooks will come in a number of different colors.
A couple of other features that Acer is touting with these notebooks, are its Precision Touchpad, which supports Windows 8.1 gestures, that reduces “un-intended tap and cursor motions on the touchpad” and a “Zero Air Gap technology” screen, which is supposed to improve screen visibility in bright environments. Both the E 14 and E 15 have up to 7 hours of battery life, decent for budget machines, and both feature optical drives. This, of course, makes them fairly thick – Ultrabooks these are not – however, Acer does claim that the E 15 “is one of the slimmest form factors in this size and product segment.”
