New Acer Aspire Notebooks Announced [Aspire AS5536 15.6" & AS7735Z 17.3" Gemstones]

Acer have officially launched two new Aspire notebooks in its Gemstone Blue series which offer 15.6″ and 17.3″ 16:9 HD CineCrystal LED-Backlit widescreen displays paired with integrated Dolby surround sound audio capabilities, the combination of which are designed specifically to offer an enriched multimedia experience.

The new Gemstone Blue Acer Aspire notebooks are powered by 2.1GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 and 2.0GHz Intel Pentium T4200 CPUs (15.6″ Aspire AS5536 and 17.3″ Aspire AS7735Z respectively) and come with 3Gb and 4GB DDR3 memory, multi-gesture touchpads, built in 802.11b/g/Draft-N Wi-Fi wireless connectivity and 8X DVD-Super Multi Double-Layer optical drives and, naturally, you can also factor in an integrated Acer Crystal Eye webcam and embedded microphone allowing for voice and video VoIP communications as well as Acer’s PowerSmart technology to help reduce power consumption and thus extend battery life.

In terms of storage capacity, the new Acer Aspire Gemstone Blue notebooks come with 320GB and 250GB capacity HDDs whilst, from a graphics perspective, you’re looking at either ATI Radeon HD 3200 or Intel 4500MHD GPUs (the latter shipping in the 17.3″ model which, considering its price point, is rather disappointing).

Both the 15.6″ Aspire AS5536 and the 17.3″ Aspire AS7735Z have just been made available and will set you back around $480 and $600 respectively.

[Acer]