I thought all laptops were 3D, except for MacBook Pro anyway.

I don't know about anybody else, but I like 2D... if I wanted 3D, I'd stop playing on my computer and go outside.

3d monitors still suck

Centrino isnt a processor.

At least wait to see how well it fares. Maybe this one will blow your mind, or at least get you to reconsider.

Acer is not a computer manufacturer

Since when did we stop listing "3D glasses" as a huge negative. I don't think I'd want to sit on my laptop with 3D glasses on for more than maybe a video game or a movie and even then...

... the screen is not big enough, to 3D be effective...

If it requires glasses it's not true 3D. All it is, is a cheap way to fake 3D. True 3D involves tracking the position of the viewer's head with infrared. This type of stuff Acer and nVidia are pushing are gimmicky garbage that's been around technology wise for decades.

I already have a pair of my own glasses. Count me out I guess.

Acer is not the first (may be first to release in US). IIRC, Either Toshiba or Sharp released this kind of laptop back in Japan 8 years ago. Major flops

The 3D trend has really made a comeback. I wonder if we'll begin to see any software optimized (optionally) for 3D use?

Maybe at the moment. Don't forget this is a rather new product segment, the early versions are bound to be on the not-so-great side. In the future I bet the will drastically improve on the quality.


Although very true, it is not possible to allow more than one viewer with a head tracking system. I do expect that in a few years we will start to see head tracking for individual users. That probably won't be until after the current systems gather much greater popularity and companies see reason to develop products like that.

too early to spend that much money on not quite developed technology. better to wait a year or two before they get it right. i'm not really sold to the idea of too realistic 3D games anyway. you're gonna shoot that darn alien immediately and not admire it. if the frame rates suck, the game sucks. 3D videos? the current ones look quite acceptable to me. HD videos do look a lot nicer but the file is too big and requires more cpu power to play.

seems 3d is wheeled out every time someone can't think of something more useful to invest in (well this awful 'glasses' 3d fake rubbis hanyway)

maigo: .. it is not a new producy segment ... 3D with glasses has been around decades, and the ystill haven't made it any less cumbersome

I'm pretty sure it's illegal to blow people apart with overpowered guns in real life. Besides, have you ever used them??? I had a set of shutter ones about 4 years back, and games like Doom III looked AWESOME!!!!

need 3D games to be upconverted to 4D..

No seriusly having glasses on is wack, i use glasses normally what are they gonna doo make perscripsion 3d glasses...sorry for typo`S

Gotta make the tech without the glasse dudes...or else it will fail again.

Odd that this is talking about applying some sort of silly 3D effect to 2D video files rather than some more "serious" application like AutoCAD. Do we really need to see silly kittens on YouTube in fake 3D?

Why vendors are trying to enchanced the LCD with 3D capability while they are ignoring that MOST of the LCD is just 18 bit colors not true 24 bit?

So when watching porn in 3D, "objects are bigger than they appear"?

Lool...or faster than they appear...
or in my eye condition...blurrier than they are...but 3D

Wait... what? That's illegal? BRB I got some things to bury...

In the realm of weaponry, there is no overpowered. Only underpowered.

Seems like the first screen with stripped polarization filters is in use today!

I'm not going to wear glasses when I use the laptop.

Usually you put the 3D glasses over your regular glasses (when they fit). I have glasses for distance (I can see a computer monitor or walk around normally without them, the glasses only add a little extra sharpness for farther distances) and the polarized 3D glasses in the movie theaters fit fine over them.

3D glasses on small monitor? How do we feel the realism???

whats the point of 3D without hardware acceleration? this is stupid. you can build a gaming rig and buy the nvidia 3dvision glasses+monitor bundle for it for less than this consts.

i'm guessing the horizontal lines are because of interlacing where the odd rows of pixels are for one eye and the even rows are for the other eye.

About spex: when you're talking about them you really should distinguish between polarized ones [like Acer's] and shutter glasses. The former are just [polarized] sunglasses. No big deal, unless you're the same kind of person who won't wear headphones either. The latter, shutter glasses, are Nvidia's system, and they *are* a PITA [Pain In The A**].
About Acer's system, however good it turns out to be i don't think it's going to fly. Those who just want a laptop, at competitive B-line company prices [like Sharp etc.], will balk at the 3D. And most people like me, 3D buffs, aren't going to want to be forced to buy a laptop [I want a 24" to 32" 3D monitor with black box that i can bolt onto my present system]. I don't think that leaves a lot of potential buyers.
Its 3D may [not] stink, but the marketing seems dubious.