We started to look like Acer PR distibution company, but you’ll have to sit quite and leave no objections about it, because we are releasing hot information and there will be one more article about their notebooks. Right now we are talking about new 17-inch model – the Aspire 7740G, which would be based on the new Intel PM55 chipset and equpped with either Core i7 620M, Core i5 430M or Core i3 330M processors and ATI Mobility Radeon HD5650 graphics card with 1 GB GDDR3 video memory. More details below.
Acer are not planing to change the screens of their 17-inchers and will use the 1600×900 pixels HD+ screen which we find a bit awkward (Dell sells even 15.6-inchers with FullHD screens) compared to FullHD 18=4″ glossy screens and WSXGA+ 15.4″ screens some notebook manufacturers still use in their gaming laptops. (hopefully they’ll do it in 2010 too. Please.) Seems that the full range of multimedia notebooks from Acer, including those based on AMD 32 nm processors (Acer Aspire 7540G) is moving towards the DirectX 11 enabled video cards from ATI, which is a big loss for NVIDIA, as Acer is second largest notebook manufacturer worldwide. ATI made huge move this time, we give them that, and Mobility Radeon HD5650 looks the most promising mid-range mobile VGA ever.
Now to the specs:
Acer Aspire AS-7740G-334G64Mn
- Intel® Core™ i3 processor 330M (32 nm Dual core, 2.13GHz, 3MB Cache, 1066 MHz FSB)
- 4 GB DDR3 1066 MHz RAM (2+2 GB modules)
- ATI® Mobility Radeon™ HD 5650 1 GB GDDR3 (”Madison-Pro” Graphics Card 1024MB DDR3 VRAM)
- 17.3 HD+ 1600×900 CineCrystal™ high-brightness (220-nit) TFT, 8ms
- 640 GB HDD, SATA, 5400 rpm (Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD6400BEVT)
- DVD Super Multi DL
- 5-in-1 card reader (MMC, SD, MS, MS Pro, xD), Acer HD Crystal Eye webcam, Fingerprint reader
- 10/100/1000 LAN, Wake-on-LAN ready
- Integrated Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 5100 (802.11a/b/g/Draft-N), Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™
- Battery: 71 W 4800 mAh 8-cell Li-ion
- 4x USB 2.0 ports, HDMI, Consumer infrared (CIR) port, external display (VGA) port, Headphones/speaker/line-out jack with S/PDIF support, Microphone-in jack, Line-in jack, Modem (RJ-11) port, Ethernet (RJ-45) port
- Five speaker Dolby surround sound, with Acer Tuba CineBass Subwoofer
- 103-/104-/107-key keyboard, with inverted “T” cursor layout
- Multi-gesture touchpad pointing device with Acer Bio-Protection fingerprint reader,
- 1x ExpressCard ™ / 54
- 3.25 kg, 410 x 286 x 35/41.5 mm
- Microsoft ® Windows ® 7 Home Premium 64-bit including Acer software package (Acer Arcade ™ Deluxe featuring Cinema, Album, Music, Acer home media, online media, Acer Backup Manager, Acer eRecovery, Acer Power Smart Manager, Acer Bio-Protection, Acer Crystal Eye, Acer GridVista ™, Acer Launch Manager, Acer Game Zone, Acer Game Console, burner software, virus scanners, etc.)
- Warranty: 2 years manufacturers warranty including 1 year International Travelers Warranty
- Expected price: 620 EUR excl. VAT
- Availability: January 2010
Acer Aspire AS-7740G-434G64Mn
- Intel® Core™ i5 processor 430M (32 nm Dual core, 2.26GHz, 3MB Cache, 1066 MHz FSB)
- 4 GB DDR3 1066 MHz RAM (2+2 GB modules)
- ATI® Mobility Radeon™ HD 5650 1 GB GDDR3 (”Madison-Pro” Graphics Card 1024MB DDR3 VRAM)
- 17.3 HD+ 1600×900 CineCrystal™ high-brightness (220-nit) TFT, 8ms
- 640 GB HDD, SATA, 5400 rpm (Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD6400BEVT)
- DVD Super Multi DL
- 5-in-1 card reader (MMC, SD, MS, MS Pro, xD), Acer HD Crystal Eye webcam, Fingerprint reader
- 10/100/1000 LAN, Wake-on-LAN ready
- Integrated Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 5100 (802.11a/b/g/Draft-N), Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™
- Battery: 48.8 W 4400 mAh 6-cell Li-ion battery with Acer QuickCharge
- 4x USB 2.0 ports, HDMI, Consumer infrared (CIR) port, external display (VGA) port, Headphones/speaker/line-out jack with S/PDIF support, Microphone-in jack, Line-in jack, Modem (RJ-11) port, Ethernet (RJ-45) port
- Five speaker Dolby surround sound, with Acer Tuba CineBass Subwoofer
- 103-/104-/107-key keyboard, with inverted “T” cursor layout
- Multi-gesture touchpad pointing device with Acer Bio-Protection fingerprint reader,
- 1x ExpressCard ™ / 54
- 3.25 kg, 410 x 286 x 35/41.5 mm
- Microsoft ® Windows ® 7 Home Premium 64-bit including Acer software package (Acer Arcade ™ Deluxe featuring Cinema, Album, Music, Acer home media, online media, Acer Backup Manager, Acer eRecovery, Acer Power Smart Manager, Acer Bio-Protection, Acer Crystal Eye, Acer GridVista ™, Acer Launch Manager, Acer Game Zone, Acer Game Console, burner software, virus scanners, etc.)
- Warranty: 2 years manufacturers warranty including 1 year International Travelers Warranty
- Expected price: 620 EUR excl. VAT
- Availability: January 2010
Acer Aspire AS-7740G-626G64Mn
- Intel® Core™ i7 processor 620M (32 nm Dual core, 2.66GHz, 4MB Cache, 1066 MHz FSB)
- 6 GB DDR3 1066 MHz RAM (4+2 GB modules)
- ATI® Mobility Radeon™ HD 5650 1 GB GDDR3 (”Madison-Pro” Graphics Card 1024MB DDR3 VRAM)
- 17.3 HD+ 1600×900 CineCrystal™ high-brightness (220-nit) TFT, 8ms
- 640 GB HDD, SATA, 5400 rpm (Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD6400BEVT)
- DVD Super Multi DL
- 5-in-1 card reader (MMC, SD, MS, MS Pro, xD), Acer HD Crystal Eye webcam, Fingerprint reader
- 10/100/1000 LAN, Wake-on-LAN ready
- Integrated Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 5100 (802.11a/b/g/Draft-N), Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™
- Battery: 71 W 4800 mAh 8-cell Li-ion
- 4x USB 2.0 ports, HDMI, Consumer infrared (CIR) port, external display (VGA) port, Headphones/speaker/line-out jack with S/PDIF support, Microphone-in jack, Line-in jack, Modem (RJ-11) port, Ethernet (RJ-45) port
- Five speaker Dolby surround sound, with Acer Tuba CineBass Subwoofer
- 103-/104-/107-key keyboard, with inverted “T” cursor layout
- Multi-gesture touchpad pointing device with Acer Bio-Protection fingerprint reader,
- 1x ExpressCard ™ / 54
- 3.25 kg, 410 x 286 x 35/41.5 mm
- Microsoft ® Windows ® 7 Home Premium 64-bit including Acer software package (Acer Arcade ™ Deluxe featuring Cinema, Album, Music, Acer home media, online media, Acer Backup Manager, Acer eRecovery, Acer Power Smart Manager, Acer Bio-Protection, Acer Crystal Eye, Acer GridVista ™, Acer Launch Manager, Acer Game Zone, Acer Game Console, burner software, virus scanners, etc.)
- Warranty: 2 years manufacturers warranty including 1 year International Travelers Warranty
- Expected price: 940 EUR excl. VAT
- Availability: January 2010
We will follow with some more information about Acer’s new 15-inch models soon. The company also works well with AMD and is expected to release a full range of AMD based mid-range notebooks, and they also said that there would be Mobility Radeon HD4570-based Timeline series notebooks in near future.
3/10 for the effort, but we need better screens, not cheaper notebooks!
Higher Twisted Rating is worse!
Update 15.10.2009: Madison Pro is actually the third card in terms of performance after 5870 and 5850 mobile cards, meaning it will be probably named 5750 and include 128-bit memory controller. This is not confirmed, though.
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3 out of 10 ?!
Are you guys on crack?
While a better screen would yield a better score it seems like you are giving this laptop an unreasonable score just to prove a point.
a score of 7/10 or given the price even 8/10 would be closer to the truth.
This one is a do-over!
Thank you for this, now i know to never take any of your reviews seriously
michael – our scores are the opposite of what you are accustomed – the higher, the worse. Acer’s new models were extremely hot.
Robert – why is that?
Now I’m confused. Want to buy this machine… Is the score 3 out of 10 a good one or a bad one!
Hi im using a 7740g with i5 atm and i can play desent games with it and use office programs witout eny hickups. with a new ssd in place this laptop will be fast.
Hello guys, about the score it’s the opposite of what you think ^^
1 : awesome
2 : fantastic
3 : excellent
4 : good
5 : medium
6 : poor
7 : bad
8 : awful
9 : bullshit
10 : don’t buy ! xD
What the f*** kind of rating are you guys using? are you trying to be cool by being different? 3/10 is a good score? grow up and cop yourselves on, no wonder people are turning off this site