Acer's U.K. operations today announced the Aspire 5755 notebook built for all around performance, including multimedia and gaming chores. It sports a Sandy Bridge foundation, and because "design is now a big part of the equation" when talking about computers, Acer dressed its newest notebook up with a glossy cover featuring "an attractive stripy pattern modulated in several color options," including brown, black, red, and blue.

Just when you think you've seen it all in laptop design, Acer comes out with a unique concept that's not only a first of its kind, but potentially useful as opposed to just another gimmick. We're talking about the detachable trackpad on Acer's new Aspire Ethos series of multimedia notebooks. When not sitting snug in the laptop's wrist rest, the trackpad acts as a "MediaRemote for convenient multimedia and content enjoyment at a distance" with an orientation sensor that lets you use it either horizontally or vertically. Pretty rad, no?

Acer today announced its newest all-in-one 3D entertainment center built around Intel's Sandy Bridge platform, the Aspire Z5763. This latest AIO PC sports an integrated IR emitter and Nvidia 3D Vision technology to serve up 3D visuals on its 23-inch, Full HD 1080p 16:9 display. Audio duties are handled by an integrated 5W stereo speaker system and Dolby support. More specs after the break.

Acer's rise to become the world's second largest notebook maker came about largely by attacking the entry-level and mainstream markets. That doesn't mean Acer doesn't know how to put together a higher performing laptop; the company's churned out a handful of gaming oriented notebooks under its Gateway subsidiary, and now it's releasing a high end laptop under the Acer brand.

It's called the Aspire AS8950G-9839 (good luck remembering that without writing it down) and it's Acer's new flagship model. Like the other recently announced Aspire units, this one rocks an Intel Sandy Bridge processor, specifically the Core i7 2630QM. Other features include 8GB of DDR3 memory, ATI Mobility Radeon 6850 graphics with 2GB of video RAM, a spacious 18.4-inch edge-to-edge glass LED backlit display (1080p), 750GB SATA hard drive, Blu-ray, and Dolby optimized Acer CineSurround sound.

"The new Acer Aspire AS8950G is the ultimate portable entertainment center," said Preeta Anil, Acer product marketing. "The new 2nd generation Intel Core i7 processor delivers approximately a 20 percent overall performance gain, while its graphics subsystem delivers performance comparable to an entry-level discrete graphics card. This allows the Acer Aspire 8950 to process video and play Blu-ray better than ever."

Priced comparatively high to your average mainstream notebook, this one still won't break with the bank with an MSRP set at $1,600.