As one of the first manufacturers to equip its 18.4-inch Acer Aspire 8940G-724G64Bn notebook with Intel’s new mobile processor. The quad-core Core i7 720Q clocked at 1.6 GHz with no load and turn up when needed at up to 2.8 GHz. Smart power management techniques to ensure that work only as many nuclei with the respective clock speed, as are necessary for the fastest possible completion of a task. This will save power and reduce heat. Adapt to the processor, the Intel PM55 chipset and 4 GB of DDR3 memory, which you can use, thanks to the 64-bit version of Windows 7 Home Premium also complete.

Together with the nVidia GeForce GTS 250M, the Aspire 8940G-724G64Bn has so much power that it is our Scores of notebooks from 16 ” in the performance and cites the overall standings.

Cheap, but not suitable for all current games
Disadvantage for players: The huge 18.4-inch display but offers an immense space for the display of the gaming world, but it strikes a middle class video card GeForce GT 250M not current 3D games in all their glory bring smoothly on the screen. You need to either reduce the level of detail of the game or to choose instead of the native Full HD resolution, a smaller one.

As far as performance and size has its price. Around 1,500 euros call the dealer for the Acer Aspire 8940G-724G64Bn. It might seem a lot, but suits the requisite power and features: The Value-Rated secures the Aspire to the grade of “good”.

Blu-ray burners and TV tuners
In addition to top performance, the tense features contribute to a successful year in the test. Particularly positive, the department “Mass Storage” and “Multimedia fall on.” Unlike some other notebooks with Blu-ray drive is the Aspire 8940G-724G64Bn the BD discs not only read but to describe it. Two 320-Gbyte hard drives offer plenty of space for your private photo, video and music library.

In addition, the DTR-notebook has an integrated DVB-T tuners for television, a webcam, Firewire, depending on a display port, VGA and HDMI output, five USB ports, Bluetooth, eSATA, n-WLAN and Gigabit LAN. More little about.

Full HD display a bit dark
The reflective 18.4-inch display makes photos and movies in full HD resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 dar. so you can watch HD movies on Blu-ray drive in full quality. Even more fun would it be if the display would be somewhat brighter. Although we measured a very good contrast ratio of 832:1, but only 175 cd / m² brightness. Pleasant would be 210 cd / m².

Backlit keypad and media control
The processing of the Core i7 line with the usual giant at Aspire notebooks: Something soft, cheap-sounding plastic, which easily gives in to pressure and creaks. When illuminated keyboard, Acer has given the other hand, more trouble: No comparison to the more spongy keyboards earlier devices. The backlit media console to control the music and movie playback like that.

With its huge size and the energy-guzzling components are available for 8940G’s win in the mobility score not to flower. At 4.3 kilograms in weight and a height of 45 millimeters, it is itself so severely restricted in the class of DTR notebooks, and a giant in terms of mobility. This suggests it is in the run-time measurements is not too bad. It moves with a maximum of 3.5 hours run around in the middle of our Scores of notebooks from 16 “.