![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pride of place in Acer's Travel Series, the C120 will appeal to any road warrior who occasionally needs to quickly impress with an instant Powerpoint presentation. The need to have two USB slots for the supply of full brightness is a little odd, and the added requirement to have them very close to each other will instantly rule out many laptops and ultrabooks.Īnd no Mac compatibility? Given the popularity of the MacBook Air and Pro with road warriors, that's a big mistake, though Windows users won't give a jot about that. So does its slave-like simplicity, while the throughly usable picture quality is an added bonus. The tiny size and – almost as useful – lack of bulky power pack and remote control makes the C120 mightily tempting. Having sat the C120 on a coffee table opposite a projection screen in a complete blackout, we settled on a 50-inch image from about 1.5m any more than that and the pixel grid begins to reveal itself, and the detail drops to a disappointing level.Īt 35 decibels, the C120 is whisper-quiet compared to most projectors, though it doesn't have the built-in speakers now common on beamers of all sizes on a projector this tiny that would be pointless since it's smaller than the laptop it must be connected to. It may raise the image slightly, but doing so creates a mis-aligned image – and there's no keystone correction to address that problem. On the bottom of the C120 is a tiny kickstand, but it's so small that we can't see any use for it. There's almost nothing to it plug it in to a laptop's USB slots and – after engaging auto-play of an EXE file stored on the C120 itself – drivers installed on the C120 itself will mirror or extend the desktop. Setting-up the C120 isn't difficult at all, but nor is it flexible. With that in mind we went looking for the darkest recesses of our test rooms to give the C120 a try. That's a shame since the only other way to achieve full brightness is to be sure to use both USB terminals on a laptop, or else the brightness dims. ![]() Besides the C120's connector slot is a DC power input, though there's nothing in the box. It's a relatively weak DLP LED engine that makes the C120 so small and lightweight, though its 100 Lumens rating isn't the whole story. It's with its bulb that the C120 shows its true colours. There's also a small fake-felt bag for the C120, though it's so snug it's hard to fit the projector inside, and there's no room for the USB cable. The cable provided has two USB slots on one end and a proprietary Acer-made figure-of-eight connection on the other. ![]()
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