Acer launches its first touch screen notebook with Windows 7 Home Premium with the Acer Aspire AS5738PG notebook PC. With the AS5738PG, owners can now use the touch screen as an alternative way of interface for varied uses such as playing movies, navigating through websites and launching installed applications.

Among the striking features of this Acer notebook include a 15.6” HD CineCrystal LED backlit multi-touch screen display, an Intel Core Duo processor T6600, 4GB DDR memory, 320GB SATA HD, 8X DVD multi-double layer drive, built-in stereo sound speakers with Dolby Optimized Surround Sound and an Acer Crystal Eye webcam (640×480). The Acer Aspire AS5738PG notebook PC will retail for $799.99 and will be available starting October 22 at local retailers.

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Future netbooks might pack one of the two new SSD versions announced by OCZ Technology. These SSD come in 16GB and 32GB capacities and they should be “affordable flash-based storage options to significantly increase the capacity for netbooks.

The two SSDs will be available in both SATA and PATA interfaces and as for speeds you can expect up to 110MB/sec read speeds and write speeds as high as 512MB/sec for SATA. PATA interface will offer you a lower 45MB/sec read and 35MB/sec write speeds. The SSDs are going to be available soon but we have no idea for what price.

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Yesterday we mentioned the new Luxio USB Flash Drives presented by Super Talent, and today the news are related to their fresh SATA-II SSD drives, which will become available for purchase later this week at reasonable prices.

The codename of the new SSD Drives is MasterDrive LX, and its capacity can either be 64GB or 128GB. According to Super Talent, the devices are resistant to shock + vibration, and unlike others this unit works in silence. In terms of technical specifications, we have NAND flash, SATA-II 3Gpbs interface, and a great speed of 100MB/sec on reading mode, or 40MB/sec on write mode.

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While the size of the hard drive may not be very significant, it’s the physical dimensions that attract attention: Toshiba has announced a 1.8 inch 250GB hard drive that spins at 5400 rpm. Even more interesting is that it features SATA support, offering up to 3Gbps bandwidth for disk intensive applications.

The 8mm thick drive will surely make its way to ultra portable laptops, and will also replace a similar 240GB 1.8 inch hard drive that was announced some time ago, though it was stuck with a slower PATA interface suitable only for portable media players.

The drive hits mass production in November and will be part of the MKxx29GSG series.

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Acer announced its new 4520 Notebook PC in Bangkok. The TravelMate 4520 is a mid-range laptop for the mobile professional, featuring an AMD Turioni 64 X2 (1.8GHz) CPU and based on the ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 chipset. It comes bundled with 1GB DDR2-533 RAM, and graphics is handled by the Radeon Xpress which can share up to 384MB of your RAM (and simultaneously slow down your system).

There’s a 120GB 5400 RPM hard drive. The display is a nice 14.1″ WXGA display with Acer CrystalBrite technology that runs at 1280×800 pixels resolution, and there’s also an S-Video out on the back. A DVD-Super Multi double layer drive is available for your backup needs, and as a bonus, it has a 5-in-1 media card reader.

It also sports 4 USB 2.0 ports, integrated Bluetooth and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity. Priced at 32,900 baht (approx US $970).

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