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Review summary: After teasing our curiosity over the past couple of weeks, Acer has finally revealed its new range of Blu-ray equipped Aspire Gemstone laptops. The UK launch was a pretty understated affair, and perhaps suitably so, with the restrained styling of the ...

Verdict: Blu-ray, an 18.4in display and built-in 5.1 speakers set the 8920G apart from the desktop replacement crowd.

Pros: First 18-inch display we've seen ; true 16:9 aspect ratio ; inventive media control panel mimics a remote control

Cons: Higher-end model is twice as much as lower-end version, despite minimal specification differences ; minor Blu-ray control issues ; we expected better bass from a system with a subwoofer

Verdict: With Blu-ray and a true 1080p display, the 18-inch Acer Aspire 8920 is a movie fan's dream, but we'd go for the cheaper of Acers' two preconfigured models.

Pros: Designed to be a semi-portable media centre PC, the Acer Aspire 8920G lacks little in the way of performance or storage - the dual-core processor and 4GB of RAM are backed by capacious twin 320GB hard drives. The 18.4-inch screen supports Full HD and ...

Cons: Codenamed the 'Gemstone Blu' its name gives away the key selling point here, as you'll find a Blu-ray player built-in as standard. As a player it's great, but you won't be able to use it for backing up files as it lacks Write functionality

Review summary: The Acer Aspire AS8920-6837 has a massive 18.4-inch laptop display that supports up to 1920x1080 Resolution, NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS graphics, 4GB of DDR memory,