Acer has today shown us their brand new Aspire 8940 18.4-inch laptop, pictured above. This beast will start at $1,350 and include some very enticing specs.

Those specs include an Intel Core i7 processor, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a 500GB HDD, 1GB Nvidia GeForce GTS 250M GPU, Blu-ray drive and 5 integrated speakers for surround sound all running on Windows 7.

Acer didn’t give us an exact day as to when this laptop will be made available but they did tell us it would be sometime this holiday season.

Full spec list, courtesy of Gizmodo, after the break.

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Polk Audio’s new product, SurroundBar, is debuting in this year’s CES Convention. SurroundBar is a two-piece DVD theater system consisting of the SurroundBar 360 multichannel loudspeaker and an electronic console which has DVD player, amplifier, AM/FM radio, USB, video and analog inputs. It came about by consumers’ wanting of a “true surround audio and deep bass from a single cabinet.” The product uses Polk’s own Stereo Dimension Array (SDA) technology. Video output is HDMI while the audio is could have a variable bit rate of up to 384kbps. More specs would be found in the Polk Audio web site. All in all, the SurroundBar shows a lot of promise and with a price tag of USD $1,199.95, it had better deliver.

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