Prestigio Launches Powerful Home PC Based on Intel Core 2 Duo with Blue-Ray Combo Drive
Prague (Czech Rep.), June 12, 2007 — Prestigio Europe spol. s r.o., a division of Prestigio Technologies Ltd., a dynamic international vendor of state-of-the-art products for Digital Home and Digital Office, introduced a super-powerful home PC based on the latest Intel® Core™2 Duo technology. The new advanced desktop PC integrates some of the cutting-edge technologies and provides amazing performance.
Powered by the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor, the Prestigio Home Series 7 desktop PC features the latest arsenal of performance-rich technologies, including a Blu-ray optical disk drive, and NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8600GT graphics card.
With Intel® Core™2 Duo E6420 processor, home users will experience revolutionary performance, unbelievable system responsiveness, and energy efficiency second to none. And, users won't have to slow down for virus scan, multiple compute intensive programs, or multimedia downloads – this desktop processor is up to 40 percent faster with improved energy-efficiency.
The power of the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor is supported by a solid 2 GB of DDR2 SDRAM memory which will be more than enough to enjoy all the benefits offered by the new exciting Windows Vista™ operating system.
In addition, the Prestigio Home Series 7 is equipped with NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8600GT with 256MB of memory and HDTV support for extremely realistic gaming and video experience. This state-of-the-art graphics card features a powerful unified architecture that delivers an incredibly true-to-life gaming experience at record speeds for Microsoft® DirectX® 9 and DirectX 10 games. Users can now fully enjoy vividly realistic lighting effects while steering clear of mind-blowing physics effects such as explosions, fire, and smoke. And when they are not pounding the enemy, they can relax to favourite movies on Blu-ray™ disk with NVIDIA PureVideo™ HD technology.
The Prestigio Home Series 7 carries a state-of-the-art Pioneer Blu-ray Combo optical disc drive. Blu-ray is the next generation optical disc format greatly surpassing the capacity of other media formats. Blu-ray uses a more efficient blue-violet laser beam to provide 25GB of storage on a single layer disc. The integrated Pioneer drive reads BD-ROM, DVD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE, DVD-R/+R, DVD-R DL/+R DL and DVD-RW/+RW discs. The drive can be used to playback HD movies on the PC.
The designers of the Prestigio Home Series 7 also made sure the users have enough disk space for their bulging media libraries with thousands of movies, MP3s, and digital photos. This Prestigio’s mega-PC carries on board 500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200 SATA drive.
To make the gaming and HD movie experience even more exciting, the new Prestigio desktop PC comes with a fascinating widescreen 22-inch LCD monitor Prestigio P7220W which is ideal for displaying fast-moving colourful high-definition images.
The product is covered by Prestigio’s 2-year limited international warranty.
Detailed product specifications:
Processor: Intel® Core™2 Duo E6420 2.13GHz (1066MHz, 4MB, Conroe, S775)
Mainboard: INTEL MB DG965WH WESTCHESTER
Memory: 4x DDR2 SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets
DDR2 800/667 533 MHz DIMMs – max 8 GB
Chipset: Intel® G965 Express Chipset
Audio: 8-channel (7.1) audio subsystem using the SigmaTel STAC9271D audio codec and Dolby Home Theater certification
Graphics card: nVIDIA GeForce 8600GT DDR3 256MB HDTV, Dual DVI
LAN: Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem using the Intel® 82566DC Gigabit Ethernet Controller
RAID: Intel® Matrix Storage Technology (RAID 0,1,10,5 and Intel Matrix Raid)
Blu-RAY: Combo BD-ROM (read only) Pioneer: BD-ROM 5x
Peripheral Interfaces:
10x USB 2.0 ports
2x IEEE-1394a interfaces: one back panel connector and one front-panel header
6x Serial ATA IDE interfaces
1x Parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100/133 support
1x diskette drive interface
1x parallel port
Expansion Capabilities :
1x PCI Express x16 bus add-in card connector
3x PCI Express x1 bus add-in card connector
3x PCI Conventional bus connectors
Intel® Viiv™ technology support
Recommended retail price in the EU (with Vista Premium): USD 1,350
About Prestigio
Prestigio Technologies Ltd. is one of the most dynamic international vendors of state-of-the-art products for Digital Home and Digital Office. Today Prestigio is a well-established brand which is sold in 25 countries around the world. Rigorous quality control and innovative technologies are the cornerstones of the company’s strategy. Prestigio is actively involved in the EMEA region operating through 3 representative offices located in Central & Eastern Europe (Prague, Czech Republic), Russia (Moscow), and Ukraine (Kiev). For more information please visit www.prestigio.com.