Alongside the moment of Windows 7 release , touch screen-based products flooding the market. It’s understandable, as one of the leading features of Windows 7 is better support for touch screens. But that does not mean too late if Acer also released the Aspire 5738PG Touch, 15.6-inch notebook that supports the touch screen. According to Acer, this notebook has been prepared well in advance of Windows 7 release. This is proofed 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 need to pull scraps of paper shaped area on the desktop. When that is done, open family room-shaped interface. And then we can see a variety of menus with different icons that represented a unique and creative software. For example, media player is represented by a display of the CD player, image viewer as photo-shaped patches, as well as Internet Explorer with IE-logo. If you want to play a song, you simply pull the CD-shaped icon to the main screen and all of your songs collection contained in a notebook will be posted. Really creative.

But frankly, we were not too eager to try this notebook touch. Because, we have tried several notebook with touch screen and is often frustrated with the lack of precision and responsiveness. But this notebook was able to lure us. Aspire 5738PG touch-screen able to provide good responsiveness, since it has support for multi-touch. Problem of precision is still a occured because we need 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 feels good; best of all touch notebooks we’ve ever try.

Even so, there is one question that still propping: what’s the point of having touch notebook? Moreover, Aspire 5738PG is not a tablet PC screen which can be folded and positioned like a notebook. It remains in the form of the notebook so our hand must hang around when touching the screen which was exhausting. In addition, the screen lever is less robust to hold the touch, so the screen will fall little by little when pressed.

Outside the touch screen capabilities, Acer Aspire 5738PG notebook is also true reliable power. Using Intel Core 2 Duo processor P8700 (2.53 GHz) assisted with 800MHz 4GB DDR2 memory, this notebook’s performance looks very rushed. In addition, this notebook uses the ATI Mobility Radeon HD4570 with 512MB memory, which allows this notebook to play today’s games. Endurance of the batteries are not too long, but fair for high-powered notebook like this.

From the facility side, this notebook performed quite complete thanks to the presence of HDMI, fingerprint scanner, card reader, 8X DVD Writer, gigabit ethernet, camera, and 4 USB ports. Even if there are less is the absence of external SATA ports.

Call us old-fashioned, but the truth is the touch screen is not the facilities that we desire from a notebook. But fortunately Acer Aspire 5738PG attraction is not just a touch screen, and this is what fits in our. With the price of US $ 1,299, this notebook has the performance and facilities are highly competitive. So look at Aspire 15.6-inch notebook 5738PG as decent choice with the touch screen as a bonus.

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