The new Acer Aspire AS5745 and AS7745 entertainment notebooks are now available in the US, the company has announced.

The Aspire AS5745 has a 15.6-inch 1366×768 display, whereas the AS7745 Series touts a 17.3-inch 1600×900 screen, both with LED backlight. The laptops come with the Intel Core i3, i5, and i7 processors, discrete graphics options, Dolby Home Theater audio, and a multi-touch display in select AS5745 models.

Acer highlights the Acer Aspire AS5745G-6538 with the Intel Core i7 720QM quad-core CPU and NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M dedicated graphics, the multi-touch Acer Aspire AS5745PG-3882 with the Core i5 and GT 330M, and the Aspire AS7745G-6214 with the i7 720QM, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 graphics, dual hard drives for up to 1TB storage, four SODIMM slots for up to 16GB RAM, and a Blu-ray drive.

The standard AS5745 and AS7745 start at $699, while the AS5745G, AS5745PG, and AS7745G start at $1,049, $899.99, and $1,399, respectively.

Acer has announced the US availability of the Aspire TimelineX thin-and-light laptop series, including the 11.6-inch Aspire 1830T, 13.3″ 3820T, 14″ 4820T and the 15.6″ 5820T.

Besides LED-backlit displays, TimelineX notebooks include the Intel Core i3 or Core i5 full-voltage processors, except the 1830T with a Core i3 ultra-low voltage chip. The laptops have Intel’s integrated GPU or swithcable graphics with an ATI Radeon dedicated video card, 3GB or 4GB of memory, up to 500GB hard drive space, optical drives in 14″ and 15.6″ models, and Windows 7 Home Premium OS.

The TimelineX systems are less than one inch thin and are housed in black brushed aluminium cases. The laptops’ weight ranges from 3 to 5.5 pounds.

According to Acer, the new notebooks are desinged to deliver “eight hours of battery life”.

Prices of the Acer Aspire 1830T and 3820T start at $599.99 and $729.99, respectively, whereas the 4820T and 5820T both start at $749.99.

Acer has announced the Aspire AS5738PG notebook with a multi-touch 15.6-inch display, Intel’s CPU, and Windows 7 OS.

According to Acer, customers can touch anywhere on the AS5738PG’s screen using one or two fingertips to play movies, zoom in and out on websites, edit photos and video, handwrite notes, resize windows, launch entertainment applications and more.

The first touch-screen Aspire model available will be the AS5738PG-6306, featuring the Core 2 Duo T6600 2.2GHz processor, the ATI Radeon HD 4570 512MB dedicated graphics, 4GB of DDR2 memory, a 320GB SATA hard drive, and a DVD burner. The display has a resoltion of 1366×768 pixels and uses LED backlight.

The laptop also sports stereo speakers, a built-in web camera, 802.11n WiFi, an HDMI output, and four USB ports.

Acer’s notebook weighs 6.16 pounds with its 6-cell battery.

The AS5738PG-6306 was available starting October 22. It was priced at around $800.

Acer has introduced the Acer Aspire AS8940G-6865 desktop replacement laptop, featuring an 18.4-inch display, an Intel Core i7 quad-core processor and Windows 7 Home Premium OS.

Along with the i7-720QM 1.6GHz quad-core CPU and the full HD 1920×1080 LED-backlight screen, the entertainment oriented AS8940G-6865 incorporates the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M dedicated GPU, a Blu-ray combo drive, a 500GB HDD and 4GB of DDR3 memory.

The notebook also sports five built-in speakers and Dolby Home Theater sound technology, a web camera, an HDMI output, a touch-capacitive media control interface, 802.11n Wi-Fi, five USB ports, and an eSATA port.

The Acer Aspire AS8940G-6865 will be available this holiday season at leading retailers in the U.S. for around $1,350.

Acer Aspire 3935

The recently announced Acer Aspire 3935 13.3-inch laptop can be purchased now in  Newegg, B&H, BuyDig, and Amazon , they offer the Acer Aspire AS3935-6504 model with the Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 processor at 2GHz, the GMA 4500MHD integrated graphics, 3GB of DDR3 memory, a 250GB hard drive, and a DVD burner.

The notebook’s 13.3″ “edge-to-edge” LED Backlit display has a 1366 x 768 resolution and a 16:9 aspect ratio.

The Aspire AS3935 also includes a built-in web camera, stereo speakers with Dolby Home Theater technology, a multi-gesture touchpad, a fingerprint reader, three USB ports, a 5-in-1 media card reader, a VGA output, and an audio jack with S/PDIF support, as well as 802.11a/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth, a 56k modem, and an Gigabit LAN port.

Acer’s laptop weighs 4.18 pounds with a 4-cell battery that provides “up to 4 hours” of battery life.

It runs Windows Vista Home Premium OS.

The Acer Aspire AS3935-6504 is priced at $900 at Newegg, B&H, and BuyDig, while Amazon sells it for $972.

Blog Macles has revealed the Acer Aspire One 571 10.1-inch netbook that features a dedicated HD video chip and a mini Blu-Ray optical disc drive.

The Quartics Q1721 Multimedia Coprocessor in the Aspire One 571 accelerates decoding and encoding of high definition video codecs, and also adds hardware scaling and filtering, according to Macles.

Regarding the optical drive, the 571 features a small Blu-Ray reader for Vmedia’s 1GB discs with a diameter of 32mm, whereas a standard Blu-ray disc measures 120mm.

The new netbook includes the Intel Atom N280 1.66GHz processor and a 10.1″ screen with a resolution of 1280×720 pixels and a 16:9 aspect ratio.