Blu-ray your way with Acer’s Aspire 8930G

Who needs desktop PCs anymore? Laptop computers are every bit as powerful these days and cheaper too. Take Acer’s Aspire 8930G for instance, which is powerful enough to double up as both a desktop replacement for work and a media centre for the lounge, thanks to sparkly HD Blu-ray support and a monitor-mashing 18.4 inch screen..

Its specs are more than respectable, with a Core 2 Duo 2GHz processors providing clock power, 4GB of RAM, 320GB of storage for all your songs and movies, and an NVIDIA GeForce 9600M graphics card to handle all your games with ease. At 1680×945, the resolution isn’t quite the full 1080p for HD, but a HDMI socket will let you out outsource the visuals to a TV screen and leave the Blu-ray drive do its thing.

Top talents

Secure computing
Laptops are much more easily lifted than desktops, but a fingerprint scanner will lock out anybody else, unless they happen to have one of your severed digits to hand.

Blu-ray beast
The next generation of optical drives is here, and as well as playing all your regular DVDs and CDs, the 8930G’s BD player will bring to life the latest Hollywood blockbusters in HD glory.

Graphic gaming
A top of the line NVIDIA graphics card plus 4GB of RAM is enough to handle even the most razor sharp of cutting edge games.

Price: £939.69 on 28 November 2008

Closest rivals

Acer Aspire 6920 – Lesser specs and a smaller screen, but you’ve got Blu-ray onboard still, as well as a Core 2 Duo chip.

Asus G71V-T7001C – It costs more, but this 17 inch Blu-ray drive laptop also boasts a faster processor and more hard drive space, making this trade-up more than reasonable.

Dell Inspiron XPS M1730 – Another 17 incher with a Core 2 Duo Extreme processor – the fastest in the range – and just as much memory.

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