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Acer’s TravelMate B113 was first unveiled in June this year. Acer missed to announce its availability and pricing, so, just in time for the holidays, the Taiwanese computer technology giant is now selling it here in the U.S. for $399. On the other hand, our readers in Canada can avail the ultrabook for $369. Acer has an audience in mind when it made the TravelMate B113 – students. Yes, Acers markets the B113 has an ultrabook that can easily fit into the backpack, minus the excess weight.

And as mentioned previously, it is powered by the latest “Ivy Bridge” 3rd Generation Intel Core i3 processors and can run either Windows 8 Pro or Windows 7 Professional. The TravelMate B113 features an 11.6-inch Acer ComfyView LCD LED backlit display with a 1366 x 768 resolution and a 16:9 aspect ratio. It also comes with 4GB of DDR3 memory (upgradable to 8GB), 500GB of SATA hard disk storage capacity, and a six-cell battery that can deliver seven hours of battery life. Get yours now.

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4GB of RAM, half a TB of storage, Sandy Bridge and an 11.6-inch 1366 x 768 panel starting at €450 (about $563), sounds like a pretty sweet deal on a last-gen ultrabook right? Well, Acer’s TravelMate B1113 is actually brand new and, as you dig a little deeper into the specs, this one sounds more like a rather hefty netbook. And we do mean hefty — this laptop apparently tips the scales at 1.88 Kg, which puts it a touch over the four pound mark. 4.1 pounds certainly isn’t shoulder busting, but it’s a solid half a pound more than you’d expect from a machine of this size. Then there’s the fact that the base model ships with a 1.4Ghz Celeron, and the top shelf €560 version (roughly $700) only sports a 1.5GHz Core i3. We haven’t been able to dig up the dimensions on this sucker, but the press pics don’t make it look particularly bulky. We can only assume, given its considerable weight and diminutive size, that the chassis is made of cast iron. On the plus side, it does have a matte screen… that’s gotta count for something, right?

Acer launches 11.6-inch Sandy Bridge TravelMate B113 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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