Not NVIDIA powered but still not a bad looking amachine with i5 and i3 options for those that prefer mainstream.

The Acer Aspire AS7740.

(Credit: Acer

Jumping right in with Intel’s new CPUs, Acer (parent of the Acer, Gateway, and eMachines brands) is showing off a couple of new large-format laptops, starting at $600.

The new Acer Aspire AS5740 and AS7740 lines are designed as speedy multimedia machines, with wide-screen 15.6 and 17.3-inch displays and Blu-ray and ATI graphics in some configurations.

While we may spend most of our time talking about low-end Atom processors, the Intel Core i3-330M (2.13GHz) and Core i5-430M (2.26GHz) are the next step in mainstream computing, and should eventually eclipse the Core 2 Duo chips found in most PCs.

On top of that, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 or ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 graphics are available (making these laptops part of the small club of Intel/AMD combo systems). That makes sense, as Acer is pitching these models at consumers who will be “composing digital music, editing photos, or playing…games.”

Acer has been hawking a design philosophy called “Gemstone Blue” for some time … Read the full post at CNET’s CES 2010 blog