Acer Aspire 2020 - Centrino desktop replacement

Features - Aspire Arcade

Perhaps the most appealing feature of Acer's Aspire 2020 is the integration of Aspire Arcade with the system's hardware configuration. The software itself is mainly a ported over version of Cyberlink's PowerCinema, though modified with a few tweaks and a different GUI. Basically, this is Acer's easy way of turning this laptop into a multimedia platform without having to go through Microsoft's Media Center Edition OS system certification.

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Navigating through the Album, Video, and Music functions is similar to MCE, with a few differences. Unlike SageTV 2.0 or Beyond TV 3, Aspire Arcade has a directory navigation user interface to get to the directory with the desired media. Frankly, SageTV 2.0's method of adding specific directories is much preferred over this, since the Arcade shows all directories and doesn't save the last used directory for any or each function (Album, Video, and Music).

The Burner function just minimizes the Aspire Arcade window to the taskbar and loads NTI CD & DVD Maker. Closing the window for NTI will maximize the Aspire Arcade window (whether in full screen or window mode) automatically.

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While the Album and Video functions use thumbnail viewing, Music uses list viewing. The type of viewing between directories cannot be changed.

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