Product Description

Movies come to life in true cinematic form on the 15.6" Aspire 5738Z-423G32Mn Notebook. A competent processor and premium audio technologies work behind the scenes to deliver marvelous entertainment. It comes in the classy Gemstone design, so you can enjoy a theater experience anywhere, anytime and in style. Features: Operating System Windows Vista Home Premium Dimensions38.3 x 25 x 3.7 cm (W x D x H) WeightTBC ProcessorIntel Pentium T4200 / 2.0GHz (Dual Core) Main Memory4GB DDRIII Display15.6" WXGA Hard Drive320GB Optical DriveDVD-Writer Wi-Fi802.11 a/b/n BluetoothNo

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42957 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Acer
• Model: LX.PAR0X.076
• Released on: 2009-04-30

Manufacturer's Description
The Acer Aspire 5738 range has been designed for home users that want a portable PC with the strong multitasking capability of Intel dual core processors and comprehensive multimedia features like HD 15.6” widescreen and Dolby Surround Sound, all housed in a stylish chassis which won’t look out of place on the move or in the home.

Design
The Aspire 5738 features an attractive glossy sapphire blue cover that looks both classy and distinctive. On the inside, the floating keyboard makes typing easier, reducing the chance of “typos” by providing a clear separation between the keys. The power on switch is illuminated in a bright blue neon light, showing the performance waiting within - this contrasts neatly with the dark grey Neoweave palm rest, designed to reduce fingerprint smudges and create a classy environment to enjoy your work and play.


Crystal Clear Visuals
A lot of attention has been paid to the visual display of this laptop. Featuring a high definition 15.6” widescreen with 16:9 aspect ratio ensures it will deliver stunningly bright and lifelike images, ideal for enjoying high definition content.
The screen also features CineCrystal™ technology for intense colour saturation, superior contrast ratio and sharp photo images making image reproduction clearer and movies and photos more enjoyable.

All Encompassing Audio
Great multimedia is not just about the visuals, you also need great audio! The Aspire 5738 features the latest 3rd Generation Dolby Home Theater® technologies for virtual 5.1 surround sound, which delivers a vivid audio experience to music, movies, and games, either through the speakers or headphones.


Finger Tip Control
Technology is only useful if you can make it work for you, and the Aspire 5738 keeps you in control.

The new multi-gesture touchpad lets you navigate, scroll and zoom with ease. By doing a circular motion you can simply scroll up and down an image or file for seamless navigation. Want to zoom in and out? All you need to do is a pinch action to zoom in and the reverse to zoom out. And finally, to change pages or skip through a set of photos simply swipe your fingers across the pad, it could not be easier.

To ensure you do not disrupt your movie or games by accidentally moving the cursor, Acer have built in a button by the touchpad that will disable the touchpad to prevent this happening.

On the top left of the keyboard is the easy launch buttons for Wireless and the Acer Back Up key, which allows you to duplicate files to a chosen location quickly and easily.

On the top right of the keyboard is the Acer PowerSmart Key, this allows users to adjust the power consumption of the laptop to prolong battery life and increase your mobility!


Complete Connectivity
Notebooks excel on their connectivity, and the Aspire 5738 does not let you down.

Connectivity to the internet is available via Gigabit LAN, the fastest LAN connection available or wireless 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N, the latest wireless standard. To enhance the wireless signal on this notebook Acer include Acer SignalUp technology which uses a high performance PIFA wireless antenna and optimises the location of the antenna on the notebook giving exceptional wireless performance.

Web Cam
The integrated Acer Crystal Eye webcam allows you to keep in touch with friends and family, face to face. To ensure you get the best experience it also features enhanced Acer PrimaLite™ technology consisting of a premium sensor, ultra-efficient firmware, and high-quality lenses to provide superior video performance under low-light conditions.

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Customer Reviews

Snazzy laptop
This is my first laptop and im quite pleased with it, very large memory 4gb and HDD 320gb, however i had a problem with the screen which was dimming on the right so sent it back to acer who sorted it for me in under a week, which was great. One thing that buggs me is the lack of a blu ray drive, even though i wasnt expecting one, the sticker on the machine states quite clearly it has a blu ray drive. So i got all excited and then bummed out because its just a dvd drive.

The keypad is nice and responsive plenty of connectivity 4 usb vga and hdmi out, and it can handle some quite recent games too. Films look and sound great on it, and its pretty fast with a equivelant 4.2 ghz total processing speed.

All in all a great performing laptop at an affordable price.

Could Have Been Better . .
I bought one of these laptops a couple of weeks ago, simply to upgrade from my previous Acer Aspire laptop (which caused me no major problems). Once I got used to the smaller screen and lack of up/down scroll button the next major problem was the CD drive. As I was ripping music tracks from CD albums onto the laptop it started having difficulty (Stopping midway through tracks). This increased until it couldn't even copy an entire single track, and the final track I managed to fully rip played with badly affected sound quality. This is a bit of a nightmare for me as I needed to make a fair number of CDs up for a gig, don't know if this is going to be a common problem or if I've just been unlucky but nevertheless thats it!

Completely Failed After 3 Weeks
I bought this laptop to upgrade my aged Dell. The Dual Core processor and 4GB RAM attracted me along with the VGA output for TV and cardreader. You seemed to get a lot for your money. All went well for a couple of weeks. It was fast and although somewhat slower than I would have expected on multi tasks, handled them quite well. Acer load too much of their own junk. One evening after turning on in the 3rd week, it said that 'Windows Updates Being Installed'. After that, it just would not work. It took about 10 minutes to react to a mouse click, the same to read a cd rom. I tried the recovery disc (you have to make your own - Acer provide no discs at all), but this would not be read. In the end I managed to start it in Safe Mode and reinstalled the factory settings, losing everything I had spent time on transferring from my old machine. Beware that this seems cheap, because it probably uses cheaper hardware. With this experience I would not recommend this laptop.