-June 14, 2008-
A bit expensive, heavy, and large. Obviusly Acer Aspire 8920G is not created for travelers. Its design is not attractive as well, which confirms the truth that Acer Aspire 8920G is targeting different market. When most manufacturers now are trying their best to create lighter and cheaper laptops, Acer believes desktop-replacement notebooks are still profitable.

Acer Aspire 8920G's casing design is not as good as the Acer Ferrari laptops. In fact, it doesn't show any improvement from the previous Aspire series. But I like how Acer modified this Aspire 8920G's keyboard. Different from most laptops, Aspire 8920G has "CineTouch" controls. These "CineTouch" controls are very useful when it comes to watching movies. With volume bar controller, playback controls, and multimedia spiral buttons, CineTouch controls definitely worth to be tried.

The keyboard itself is still good enough although it shares its place with the CineTouch controls. But of course the most positive factor from Aspire 8920G is the huge 18.4" screen size. Usually most desktop-replacement laptops use 17" screen size but Aspire 8920G arrives with its 18.4" screen size. Its weight (9 lbs) mathematically is light because this notebook has an extremely big screen size with resolution up to 1,920-by-1,080. To add better experience in watching movies, Acer even puts the superb 5.1 built-in speaker into this laptop.

Specification:

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T9500 (2.6 GHz)
Screen Size: 18.4" (diagonal).
Graphics card: nVidia GeForce 9650M GS
Weight: 9 lbs.
Memory: 4GB RAM
Hard Disk Capacity: 320 Gigabytes
Ports: 4 USB
Networking: Ethernet, Wi-Fi, bluetooth
Useful For: Watching movies, multimedia

Price: $2,400-$2,800

Rating: (8/10)

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