Acer TravelMate 8481 Prances Around without a Bezel

One of the items Acer had on display at the Computex convention in Taiwan earlier this year was its TravelMate 8481 notebook. Making the most of the available real estate, Acer crammed a 14-inch ComfyView HD (136x768) LCD display with LED backlight into a 13-inch footprint, a feat that required virtually eliminating the bezel altogether to increase the screen area by 15 percent. According to Acer, the display is part of what makes the 8481 "a true road warrior," and it will hit the road in August in the U.K.
Acer only provided us a general description of the hardware and features in and around the TravelMate 8481, which at its foundation includes a second generation Intel Core processor armed with Intel HD Graphics 3000. Discrete graphics featuring Nvidia's Optimus technology will also be available.
Other bullet points include up to a 320GB hard drive or 64GB mSATA SSD, up to 8GB of DDR3 memory, GbE LAN, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, USB 3.0, up to 9 hours of battery life, and Acer's DustDefender technology that works via a smart reversing mechanism in the cooling fan to push the dust out.
No word on when the 8481 will land stateside or for how much.