Acer's "antimicrobial" workstations have been around for a couple of years, yet they turned out to be especially applicable during the COVID-19 pandemic. During today's next@Acer occasion, the organization reported three new PCs—a PC, a two-in-one, and a tablet—that will join its antimicrobial arrangement.
What does “antimicrobial” mean, anyway?
Something is viewed as antimicrobial in case it's prepared to do "obliterating or repressing the development of microorganisms, and particularly pathogenic microorganisms." That implies it battles illness-causing things you can't see.
Acer cases its Antimicrobial 360 Design, as it marks the element, battles microorganisms in two ways.
In the first place, high-contact surfaces—like the frame's outside and pivot, the console, the touchpad, and the unique finger impression peruser—are covered with a silver-particle specialist. For quite a long time, research has highlighted silver particles' capacity to battle microscopic organisms. As a later report distributed in ACS Applied Bio Materials clarifies, "They can promptly adsorb to most biomolecules (DNA, layer protein, chemicals, or intracellular cofactors) in microbes to inactivate their capacities."
Acer's silver-particle specialist is agreeable with guidelines from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Biocidal Products Regulation; it can slice the microbes build up to 1,000 after a 99.9 percent decrease, in light of the International Organization for Standardization 22196 test convention. The 22196 standard indicates techniques for testing the "antibacterial movement of antibacterial-treated plastics and other non-permeable surfaces of items."
The items likewise use Corning Gorilla Glass-covered with the silver-particle item. "This is done by means of following measures of silver particles filtering to the glass surface to kill the surface microscopic organisms, while as yet offering different advantages, for example, further developed toughness and further developed scratch obstruction," Acer said.
Microorganism safe PCs
Acer acquainted new antimicrobial PCs with its arrangement in 2020 however is as yet adding to the program. The organization sees its antimicrobial covering growing much further "across different product offerings," an Acer representative told Ars.
The furthest down-the-line increments to Acer's cootie-battling assortment incorporate the TravelMate Spin P4 (accessible in January and beginning at $1,100), a business-centered two-in-one with up to an eleventh-Gen Intel Core i7 vPro CPU and 1TB SSD.
Acer is likewise delivering two waterproof, tough frameworks. The Enduro Urban N3 14-inch PC (dispatching in Q4, beginning at $850) conveys up to an eleventh Gen Intel Core i7 and has a Nvidia GeForce MX330 GPU. The Enduro Urban T3 (delivering right on time one year from now, beginning at $300) is a 10-inch Android 11 tablet with an octa-center MediaTek MT8385, 65GB of ROM for capacity, and 4GB of RAM.
The Acer VE246Q stands apart from the main PC screen declared with the antimicrobial stamp. Its lodging and cover glass utilize reused plastic covered with silver particles. In any case, the 23.6-inch VA screen may be sold in Taiwan.
