Acer Aspire 5738PG Touch.

Late and post-launch of Windows 7, touch screen-based products flooding the market. Understandably, one of the flagship features of Windows 7 was better support for the touch screen. But that does not mean talkative if Acer released the Aspire 5738PG Touch, 15.6-inch notebook that supports the touch screen.

According to Acer, this notebook has been prepared well before Windows 7 is released. This is evidenced by the existence of a special interface called TouchPortal, so that this notebook does not rely on the touch screen features in Windows 7 alone.

TouchPortal itself is a unique interface. To open it, you just pulled scraps of paper shaped area on the desktop. When that is done, open family room-shaped interface. Here is the menu icon is represented by a variety of unique and creative. For example the media player is represented by a display of CDs, image viewer shaped patch size, and the Internet Explorer logo-shaped frame with IE. If you want to play a song, you simply pull the CD-shaped icon to the main screen and will be posted a collection of songs contained in the notebook. Really creative.

But frankly, we were not too eager to try notebook sail touch. The reason is, we have tried a few notebooks and sail touch screen is often frustrated with the lack of precision and responsiveness. However, this notebook was able to captivate us. Touch-screen Aspire 5738PG able to provide good responsiveness, especially since support for multi-touch. Problem precision is still a problem because we have to press several times to select the Close button. But the majority of the finger movement is detected by the screen so the touch screen experience that feels good; best of all notebook touch sailing we've ever tried.

Outside the touch screen capabilities, Acer Aspire notebook is also true 5738PG with reliable energy. Using an Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 (2.53 GHz) assisted DDR2-800MHz memory is 4GB, this notebook's performance was very rushed. In addition, this notebook uses the ATI Mobility Radeon HD4570 with 512MB memory, which allows this notebook to play games today. Test results also show that (see table). Battery endurance was not too long, but reasonable for large-powered notebook like the Aspire 5738PG this.

In terms of facilities, this notebook performed quite complete because of the presence HDMI, fingerprint scanner, card reader, 8X DVD Writer, gigabit ethernet, camera, and 4 USB ports. If something is missing is the absence of external SATA ports.