Stay productive and get creative with the Acer AX1301-U1302 Small Form Factor Desktop PC. This dynamic and sleek entertainment center is 1/3 the size of a normal PC and is equipped with a powerful AMD Athlon II X2 dual-core processor, 4GB of DDR2 memory, and a huge 750GB hard drive. Great media features make it easy to power through tasks, explore the Internet and enjoy more of your digital media and entertainment. Enjoy superior graphic performance and rich visual effects on today’s most popular mainstream games and applications with NVIDIA GeForce 9200 graphics. A built-in HDMI port delivers crisp high-quality visuals and audio to a home theater or LCD display through a single cable. The Acer AX1301-U1302 Small Form Factor Desktop PC also features High-definition audio with 5.1-channel surround sound support, bringing theater-like surround sound to your home. Convenient front and rear-access audio jacks speed up connection of headphones, microphones and other audio peripherals. Everything about this machine is designed to make your life easier. The Acer AX1301-U1302 Small Form Factor Desktop PC is equipped to store all your digital photo albums, media library, and work documents. The built-in eSATA port provides a high-speed connection to external hard drives to quickly off load files or expand your storage space, while the Multi-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader supports all the most popular flash memory cards, providing a cable-less, tangle-free file transfer of digital media to and from your computer. It's easy to see how this powerhouse PC with Windows 7 Home Premium is designed to be reliable and responsive to give you the best entertainment experience on your PC.

What It Is and Why You Need It:

Windows 7 Home Premium
The best entertainment experience on your PC

Windows 7 Home Premium makes it easy to create a home network and share all of your favorite photos, videos, and music. You can even watch, pause, and rewind TV or record it to watch whenever and wherever you want.*For the best entertainment experience on your PC, choose Windows 7 Home Premium.

Simplifies everyday tasks

Improved desktop navigation features like Snap, Peek and Shake, make it easier to manage all of your open windows.

Creating a home network has never been easier. You can even share files and printers with all the PCs with Windows 7 on the network.

Find virtually anything on your PC - from documents to songs to email - just by typing a word or two with Windows Search.

Works the way you want

Designed to make your PC sleep and resume quicker.

Takes full advantage of the power and multi-tasking capabilities of the latest 64-bit PCs.

Makes new things possible

Watch, pause, rewind and record TV with Windows Media Center.

Includes integrated video and Dolby audio codecs.

Windows 7 Professional
Everything you need for work and home.

With Windows 7 Professional, you'll be able to run many Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP mode*and you canset it to help safeguard your data with automaticback-ups to your home or business network. You'll be able to connect to company networks easily and more securely with Domain Join. And with entertainment features like Windows Media Center, it's great for home as well as for business.

Windows XP Mode gives you the business flexibility you need.

Windows 7 Ultimate
Designed for people who want it all.

Windows 7 Ultimate is the most versatile and powerful edition of Windows 7. It combines remarkable ease-of-use with the entertainment features of Home Premium and the business features of Professional, including using many Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP Mode.* For added security, you can encrypt your data with BitLocker™ and BitLocker-To-Go™. And for extra flexibility, you can work in any of 35 languages at any time. Get it all with Windows 7 Ultimate.

Work in the language of your choice or switch between any of 35 languages.

What Is FireWire?
FireWire (also known as the IEEE 1394 interface) is a serial bus interface standard, for high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data transfer, used on PCs & MACs , with storage devices, and with digital audio and digital video devices. The interface is also known by the brand names of FireWire (Apple's name) and i.LINK (Sony's name).

FireWire has replaced SCSI in many applications, due to lower costs and a simplified, more adaptable cabling system. IEEE 1394 has been adopted as the High Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance (HANA) standard connection interface for A/V (audio/visual) component communication and control. FireWire is also available in wireless, fiber optic, and coaxial versions.

Almost all modern digital camcorders have included this connection since 1995, as do the vast majority of high end professional audio interfaces. Since 2003 many computers intended for home or professional audio/video use have built-in FireWire/i.LINK ports, even some iPods. It is also available on many motherboards.  FireWire has also become a dominant local storage interface, for use with external storage devices, such as external hard drives..

Not All HDMI Is The Same!
Today's cutting-edge HDTVs and high definition sources demand dramatically higher data rates than previous generations of Audio / Video components, and place incredible bandwidth/performance demands on HDMI cables. In fact, today's most advanced components operate very close to the limits of current HDMI technology.

Take 1080p video with advanced 12-bit (or higher) color, also called Deep Color, available right now from the PlayStation® 3, and several HDTV makers. To experience this level of high definition performance, your HDMI cable must exceed the requirements of the HDMI 1.3a, CAT 1 specification, and support an astonishing cable data rate of 6.68 Gbps (Giga bits per second). That's more than six billion bits per second, six times the data rate required for standard DVD playback. That speed is also higher than what's required for Simplay HD verification. In other words, just because a cable is Simplay HD logo on the packaging, doesn't necessarily mean it supports Deep Color.

Below is an illustration of bandwidth requirements for different standards. The more picture and sound information that is transferred, the wider the bandwidth that is needed in the cable. You'll note that a DVD player transfers at data rate of 0.81 Gbps and needs a much smaller bandwidth than a Playstation 3 with a data transfer rate of 6.68 Gbps.

Not every one of your HD or Home Theater components features all advanced technologies, therefore different components and TVs have different data transfer rate requirements. That is, different components require different speeds.

This makes selecting the best cable for your HDTV or HD Home Theater more complex. To get all the performance and quality you paid for, you need to buy a true high performance cable that's fully compliant with the most current HDMI standards, and preferably one that exceeds today's standards, so you don't have to upgrade your cable when you add or upgrade HD components in the future

Be sure to select HDMI cable brands that give you a choice of high performance speed-rated cables, specifically designed for your various levels of high definition picture and sound.

For the best high definition experience, use an HDMI cable that delivers all of the picture and sound data your HD components require. Choose cables that are Simplay HD Verified and speed rated for the highest levels of high definition, now and in the future.

Today's high performance components need the highest performance cable possible to get all of the picture and sound quality that you paid for.

What Is USB 2.0?
USB 1.1 was great when it was introduced almost a decade ago.  But the newer USB 2.0 transfers data dramatically faster - up to 40 times quicker. Plus, USB 2.0 provides additional bandwidth for multimedia and storage applications, which are growing larger every year. Also to your advantage is the fact that USB 2.0 is forward and backward compatible with USB 1.1, which means that cables and connectors made for the original USB configuration will also work perfectly in a USB 2.0 port, though some newer devices are specifically designed for USB 2.0.  It is always a good idea to verify the version of USB supported by each device you want to use.

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