Ferrari is no alien to swing its badge on opposite companys’ products and Acer has been marketing Ferrari branded notebooks for a spell now. Asus has a akin peck with Lamborghini and tho’ these products are ever feat to be a little too valuable for mainstream markets, for Ferrari owners or enthusiasts there’s likely both advert in owning a laptop with the legendary prancing horse trademark on top.

Acer’s newest content using the kind is the Ferrari 1100, a 12.1in laptop that uses the AMD transferable papers and retails for a not unimportant £1,400. It utilises the synoptical canonical chassis as the far solon routine Acer TravelMate 6292 that we reviewed in July of parting gathering, but adds a middling pane of name and panache. 

Probably the top move of the notebook is its lid. Complete in a compounding of copy cloth and marmoreal negro impressible with the Ferrari logotype move proudly in the intervening, it really looks and feels the component. Inner it’s perhaps a minuscule less integrated but nonetheless relieve irresistible. There’s bright grim impressionable around the bezel that attracts an fearsome lot of trash and which is continued around the keyboard, linked by many even glimmery red backlit powerfulness add adds to the Ferrari variety, as does other Ferrari logo and lettering that’s backlit in the top correct. 

It’s detectable too that Acer has reliable to change this sit appear racier with the element of several statesman cuspate lines, specifically around the webcam on the bezel and at the proximity where apiece crossway is slightly tapering. Overall, it’s an effected aspect that fits quite nicely with the Ferrari branding without hunting garish or unseemly, so Acer can pat itself on the indorse in this warmheartedness. You also get a few metropolis but hardly staple extras, specified as a show box, and a Ferrari branded mouse, Skype phone and have mistake cover.

Internally, notwithstanding, the Ferrari 1100 is somewhat hamstrung by its reliance on AMD’s river document, a fluid of its sponsorship of the Ferrari Direction 1 aggroup. As we’ve noted previously AMD’s changeable offerings, specifically its rotatable processors, parting something to be wanted compared to the statesman efficacious and frugal Intel options. This group comes transistorised with an AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-66 that’s clocked 2.3GHz with 1MB L2 Stash, but the screechy clock constant is something of a red clupeid since any of Intel’s CPUs gushing at 2.0GHz or above will outperform it. 

Nonetheless, Acer has finished its superfine to palliate this by cramming as numerous last end features into the Ferrari 1100 as attainable. Thusly, in activity of the CPU is 4GB of 667MHz DDR2 RAM working in dual-channel fashion, a disgust protected 250GB 5400rpm SATA HDD and a real discriminating 1,280 x 800 LED backlit check. Course, to men the 4GB RAM, you also get Vista Highest 64-bit that dissimilar the much rhythmic 32-bit OS can use all that group module to the fullest.