Three Full HD Capable Laptops

One of the most interesting developments in the field of computers has been the percolation of HD into the mobile computing markets. Thanks to the ever-increasing graphical/processing capabilities now available in this area, laptops are able to offer full HD capabilities. Furthermore, with Blu-ray emerging as the HD format of choice, it's led to more and more manufacturers releasing solutions that are fully HD ready and also offer Blu-ray support. 

Acer, which has been riding strongly on the success of its Gemstone series over the last few quarters, recently launched its new Gemstone Blue lineup. This latest series looks to offer laptops with HD/Full HD capabilities, with Blu-ray support, on a 16:9 resolution. The 8920g is Acer's flagship model.

The Acer 8920g is an 18-inch laptop with a native resolution of 1920 x 1080, comes with an Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 (2.5 GHz) Penryn CPU, 3GB of system memory, and a 320GB HDD. Its graphics are powered by an Nvidia 9650M GS chipset. This 8920G also ships with a Blu-ray drive and possesses Dolby 2.0 home theater support. It expectedly sports an HDMI slot for external connectivity.

When you factor all this in, you get a very well-designed machine that can be had at a relatively cheaper price than other solutions in this roundup. Prices for this model start at Rs 79,000.

No list of laptops is complete without a Dell. This time around it's the XPS M1730, the flagship model in Dell's XPS range. The M1730, easily emerges as the most customizable and powerful machine in this lineup. Not only does it support some of the fastest Intel mobile processors available, ranging from the T9300 to X9000 Extreme, it also comes with 4GB of DDR-2 667 RAM, Dual-8700 M GT GPUs with SLI support, and includes the new AGEIA PhysX mobile PPU.

In terms of storage it offers a variety of options, ranging from a single 200GB solution to RAID 0/1 setups of 500GB (2x250). Though it does not offer HDMI natively, it bundles a DVI-HDMI convertor and offers a Blu-ray drive as an optional install. Though its screen size is only 17 inches, it does squeeze in a full HD resolution of 1920 x 1200.

For further details, check out this page. Prices for the M1730 start at Rs 99,000. Look out for our review of this laptop.