Laptop Thoughts: Acer Aspire 5745PG Offers Well Rounded Goodness

"The new Acer Aspire 5745PG notebook is a sleek and sexy looking notebook on the outside, but like so many things in life it’s wahts on the inside that really counts. In this case it’s not just the Intel Core i5 processor and the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M GPU with 1GB RAM and CUDA — it’s a multitouch screen."

It looks like Acer is offering a laptop that has just about everything a typical user could want. A competent CPU, a decent discrete GPU and a multi-touch screen. Notebooks.com is promising a full review soon though some details are missing. Having an NVIDIA GPU, it makes me wonder if the laptop is of the Optimus variety and there's no word on whether the touchpad is multi-touch as well. I do have to wonder about this craze for 1366x768 screens though. It seems as if every manufacturer and their mother have decided that that is the optimum resolution for anything with 12" to 16" display. For smaller displays, I can understand, but when you have something as spacious as a 16" screen, would it not make more sense to pack a few more pixels? Maybe I am just picky and want to pack too much information on my screen at once.