The Acer Aspire 5738PG Touch Screen laptop Price list £474.99 comes with a 15.6 inch touch screen and enough computing power to smoothly run high-graphic games and heavy applications.
The Windows 7 based device comes loaded with a Intel Core i3 350M with a processor speed of 2.26GHz which is complemented with a 4GB DDR3 RAM. Acer has been generous with the data storage, offering 320 GBs of hard drive on the laptop. The Aspire 5738PG features the NVIDIA GeForce GT 310M graphics card for graphic rich gaming.
Build quality is reasonably good, but the change to touch interaction does raise one issue that wasn't a real problem previously. Since this chassis hasn't been designed specifically with touch interaction in mind, the hinge-action on the screen isn't sturdy enough to prevent it wobbling after tapping it. This is very annoying and underlines the impression that the 5738PG's touch implementation is something of an afterthought.
We'll return to such concerns later, but first a tour of machine reveals the large, blue-backlit power button that's become a staple of Aspire laptops, below which are physical toggle buttons for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth (though this particular laptop doesn't actually have a Bluetooth card inside) and Acer's own backup solution.
The vast 320GB hard drive will give you more than enough room to install your games and save your movies, songs and photos, while the integrated webcam and wireless technology will help you share them with your friends at home or on the move.
For the ultimate in multimedia entertainment and technology at your finger tips, choose the Acer Aspire 5738.
• Screen size - 15.6 in - 1366 x 768
• Processor - Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 - 2.2 GHz
• RAM - 4 GB
• Hard Drive - 320 GB
• Operating System - Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
• Optical Drive - DVD Rewriter (Dual Layer)
• Graphics - ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570
• Webcam - Integrated
• Warranty - 1 year warranty
