The new Acer Aspire V-series is supposed to improve daily PC usage and high-end computing. Luckily, the big volume-control wheel directly beneath the trackpad works whether or not the media-control feature is enabled.For the original German review, see here. Unless you’re looking at the trackpad, you won’t know why. That means you can accidentally enable the media control keys all too easily, and suddenly your mouse isn’t responsive. This feature is toggled via a gigantic button placed between the two main mouse buttons. You can use the trackpad either as a pointing device or as a set of media-control touch-sensitive buttons, but not at the same time. However, someone at Acer decided that building media control keys into the glass surface of the trackpad is a good idea. That’s partially curable via some control-panel settings. It’s extremely sensitive, and you’ll often see the mouse cursor flying wildly across the screen. While the keyboard is mostly good, the trackpad is mostly bad. The dedicated numeric keypad, however, offers widely separated keys, making its use as a 10-key pad easy. The arrow navigation keys are tiny and clustered tightly together. The keyboard has a good feel, with nicely done tactile feedback, but the layout could be better. Given the GPU’s pedigree, I expected greatness when it comes to gaming performance as well as reasonably good video playback quality. Driving that big, bright LCD panel is an AMD Radeon HD Mobility 6850M discrete GPU with 2GB of GDDR5 video RAM. The CPU is complemented by 8GB of DDR3 DRAM and 64-bit Windows Home Premium. The system includes an Intel Core i7 2630M quad-core CPU clocking in at 2GHz and maxing out at a Turbo Boost clock of 2.9GHz. It’s still too big to carry around, but it could make for a useful living room PC.

Even with the 120-watt power supply, the weight falls just a little short of 10 pounds. At 8 pounds, 5 ounces without the power brick, it’s lighter than some smaller systems that have been through the lab here. This massive (I hesitate to say “notebook”) desktop replacement system sports an 18.4-inch, true 1080p LCD panel. When I first hauled out the Acer Aspire 8950G from the backpack, I almost dropped it–not because it was that heavy, but because it was lighter than expected.

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