Gives a few hits – especially here in Germany

First good things:

- excellent design
- faster gfx card
- more memory

Bad things:

- I here have also Acer Travelmate 7530 and looking at the design – it is PERFECT. Keyboard layout, response, everything is fantastic! But when compare my Travelmate’s 17″ with new Aspire 7738G 17.3″ – windows XP text is for one inch smaller [as monitor is wider], and this was first thing I didn`t like.

- Keyboard has smaller cursor keys and has no € and $ keys above them as I used to work with Travelmate.

- Laptop texture is very clean and also keyboard. I would prefer textured material as typing with fingers won`t leave any trace then. When you type and touch [open/close case] on Aspire – it looks like you type on a glass! So after several minutes laptop will look dirty

- Sound has MUCH MUCH lower volume if compare it with Travelmate. I play the same song in Renoise tracker on both laptops – Travelmate has much louder sound while Aspire has very tiny, like old transistor. I guess I have not been installed sound drivers properly. I will check tomorrow.

- Camera CrystalEye software didn`t want to start so I can’t see how quality is camera. But it writes it is much better than Travelmate. I will check tomorrow when reinstall drivers

- Why driver installation is not prepared for this model only? It has whole bunch of software usable and non usable for my model

Some points I don’t like:
1. touch buttons to control sound player – actually I don’t need them.
2. parts to connect secondary hdd – i am STILL waiting for them to arrive.

but overall notebook is very good. very high quality display. good design and full size keyboard

I am going to write one more review next week with my experience with this laptop during this time.