Center of the digital home
A new way to manage your growing digital archives
Dubai, 5 February 2008 - Acer, the third largest vendor in the global PC market (source: Gartner data, 4Q 2007), today presented Aspire easyStore, a new home appliance to manage your digital media contents which are increasingly a big part of your daily life.
Aspire is the heart of the digital home, it is also your home library of digital contents. Holiday photos, videos and music collections created everyday by any family member can now be kept together and therefore can be better organized: no more photos and music scattered and forgotten on different devices around the house, everyone can get to the photos, videos and music shared by everyone else. Your data stay safer with Aspire easyStore, too. Aspire easyStore protects your important files such as the photos of your unforgettable summary holidays from potential human or machine errors.
Aspire easyStore is ideal for digital photographers who need to store digital photos without having to buy yet another USB hard drive, for people who have more than one computer and would like to better organize their digital archives, for families with multiple digital devices who would like to share files, photos, movies easily among one another and for those who are concerned about the security of their important files such as the photos of your new born baby.
Aspire easyStore can be connected to your home network wirelessly, and its wireless functionality allows it to be placed anywhere at home without the limitations of cables. Aspire easyStore is ideal for the home environment: it's ultra-quiet, energy efficient and small in size - 16 x 18 x 21 cm - so you can put it anywhere you'd like, on the bookshelf, next to the TV, or at a corner in the work room.
Aspire easyStore provides up 2 TB storage space, stores up to 500,000* digital photos, 300,000* mp3, 4285* hours of movie[1]. With all these photos, music and video now kept together on Aspire easyStore. It brings more freedom to everyone. You can enjoy your music in your room while the rest of the family enjoys their music with friends from the same MP3 collections on easyStore. You can watch your favourite movie at the same time your partner watches the recorded TV shows. The built-in UPnP AV and DLNA servers allow easy connections and streaming of digital contents to compatible media players wherever they are, be it in the bedroom or in the living room.
Your important files and precious memories stay safer with Aspire easyStore, too. Everyday, Aspire easyStore automatically saves a copy of important files of your choice from every connected device in and around the home. In the unfortunate events of accidentally deleting the files, computer malfunctions or hard drive failures, Aspire easyStore can bring them back. But that is not all. Aspire easyStore brings additional security to your very special files with protection against failure of any one out of the four hard drives inside of the Aspire easyStore.
So versatile yet so easy, it takes 3 simple steps to start using Aspire easyStore: power it up, connect it to the network via cable (included) or wirelessly and insert the CD in a home computer. Aspire easyStore is automatically searched and found on the wireless network and you are now ready to start enjoying Aspire easyStore.
Detailed information on Acer products and a catalogue with prices in PDF format are available on Acer's website www.acer-euro.com 
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About Acer
Since its founding in 1976, Acer has constantly pursued the goal of breaking the barriers between people and technology. Focused on marketing its brand-name IT products around the globe, Acer ranks as the world's No. 3 (Q407) vendor for total PCs and No. 2 for notebooks, with the fastest growth among the top-five players. A profitable and sustainable Channel Business Model is instrumental to Acer's continued growth, while a successful merger of Gateway Inc. as a wholly owned subsidiary completes the company's global footprint by strengthening its presence in the U.S. and enhancing its strong position in Europe. Acer Inc. employs 5,300 people worldwide. Estimated revenue for 2007 is US$14.06 billion. See www.acer.com for more information.
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[1] based on 3MB per photo, 5MB per MP3 file, 350MB per hour playing time of DIVX AV file
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