Best 18 Inch Laptop

The notebooks are very small and portable devices that have the same components and are capable of doing the same tasks as a desktop computer. Usually the shape of all laptops is the same, and they usually are different in colors and technical details. Some of them are smaller, others are bigger, some have a widescreen display, others have much smaller displays, but all of them are lighter and portable so you can use them anywhere you want. There are many companies that are producing good notebooks and some of them are: Hewlett Packard, Acer, Asus, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo, Fuji, MSI and Apple.




Acer is a multinational company that makes many kinds of electronic devices such as computers, notebooks, PDA-s, monitors, storage devices, accessories for computers and others. The company was founded in 1976 in Taiwan and since then it continued to grow and to make better and better products. In 2009 it was declared the second producer of computers in the world, so you can be sure that when you will by a product from Acer you will be satisfied with it.

And for today we’ll discuss more about one of the best 18 inch laptops made by Acer, and also one of the best ones on the market with this size of the screen, the Aspire 8735 model. This laptop has quite good features, and thanks to the large display screen you can enjoy movies or video games at a great video quality.. And to make the movie experience complete, this model also comes with a Dolby Home Theater audio enhancement. So it both looks and sounds great. The processor and all the other components are specially build to make your day to day computing really easy and pleasant.

And now here are the technical specifications for this model. It comes with quite a good processor the Intel ® Core ™ 2 Duo Processor T 6600 (2 MB L2 Cache, 2.20 GHz, 800MHz FSB) and with 4 GB if DDR 3 1066 SD RAM memory. The producer offers an installed version of the  Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64 bit operating system, but this may depend on the store where you get the laptop from. Its hard drive has a capacity of 500 GB and works at 5400 rpm. It has an optical drive too, a CD / DVD reader and writer. The display screen is an Acer ® Cine Crystal HD + 18.4 ” (1680 x 945) TFT LCD widescreen display, with a 16:9 aspect ration and 8 ms high definition response time and up to 16.7 million colors. The graphics engine is a NVIDIA ® GeForce ® GT 240 M graphics (512 MB of dedicated DDR 3 VRAM and up to 1791 MB of shared system memory).

Some other features of this laptop would be:

-         Acer ® Video Conference with integrated high definition, Acer ® Crystal Eye webcam supporting, Acer ® Prima Lite technology, which consists of a premium sensor, firmware and lenses to provide superior video performance under low light conditions

It has most of the ports you need, including a VGA, and a HDMI ™ (High Definition Multimedia Interface ™) with HDCP (high bandwidth digital content protection) support ports. As we said the sound of this laptop is quite good, thanks to the Dolby ® optimized surround sound system with two integrated stereo speakers and one subwoofer supporting low frequency effects. It also has True 5.1 channel surround sound output. Since it has a built in webcam it also has an integrated microphone for video chatting online. Some other ports would be: Headphones / speaker / line out with SPDIF support, microphone and line in ports. It also has a card Slot – Multi in one card reader supporting Secure Digital ™ (SD), MultiMediaCard (MMC), MultiMediaCard Plus (MMCplus ™), Memory Stick ™  (MS), Memory Stick PRO ™ (MS PRO), xD-Picture Card ™ (xD). And of course it has both wireless and Ethernet connectivity for easy access to the internet:

-         Communications – Intel ® Wireless Wi Fi Link network connection supporting 802.11 a / b / g / Draft N wireless LAN, Acer ® SignalUp technology for enhanced antenna efficiency, WI-FI CERTIFIED ™  Gigabit LAN, Wake on LAN ready

Since it has a large display screen, it is a large laptop, and its dimensions are: 17.3 ” (440.5 mm) W x 11.8 ” (298.5 mm) D x 1.6″  – 1.7 ” (40.2 mm – 44.2 mm) H. The weight of this Acer laptop is quite big compared to others – 9 lbs or 4.1 kg. Because it is so big it is recommended to use it as a desktop replacement, and it has a full size keyboard  – 105 keys keyboard, inverted T cursor layout, standard numeric keypad, hotkey controls, 2.5 mm minimum key travel and international language support. But this is not all because it also has 12 function keys, four cursor, two Microsoft ® Windows ® keys; independent US dollar and Euro keys Acer ® backup, WLAN, touchpad lock and programmable easy launch buttons. It works with a 90 watt AC adapter, but after all it is a laptop, so it also has a 8 cell Lithium Ion battery with a battery life of up to 2.5 hours. So you can still take this laptop with you when traveling, and use it if you need to. And finally it has a 1 year warranty for parts and labor.

So after all, the Acer Aspire 8735 is a large laptop, but also a powerful one, that offers a lot of features and technologies. So it can definitely be considered one of the best 18 inch laptops. In case you already own it, we invite you to tell us all your opinions about it, whether if they are good ones or bad ones. Have a nice day!