Acer Aspire 5738DG is the first notebook equipped with 3D screen, use the circular polarizer principle to provide a more low-cost 3D solution. Acer Aspire 5738DG and 3D glasses are not too expensive. Acer Aspire 5738DG also an 15.6-inch entry-level gaming notebook.

The special place of Acer Aspire 5738DG is the built-in 3D screen and also can change 2D photo and video to 3D which means as long as built-in TriDef 3D playback software, as well as accompanying 3D partial optical glasses, even if you do not play native 3D, it can simulate 3D threee dimensional effect.

Acer Aspire 5738DG is still extended Aspire style, round edges, slightly circular fuselage lines. Acer Aspire 5738DG cover is blue as usual, IMR plastic material, embedded Acer logo in the middle. Acer Aspire 5738DG cover still has a common problem for leaving fingerprints.

You must open Acer Aspire 5738DG body card tenon first if you want to open the screen, this retro design make it different from the current mainstream laptop.

Acer Aspire 5738DG 15.6 inch screen is 1366×768 resolution, backlight feels quite bright. Such a high brightnes backlight just to make up loss of brightness of 3D polarized glasses.

In order to render 3D effects, Acer Aspire 5738DG adds a linear polarizing film with a special two circular polarizing film optical coatings but does not make the screen become particularly thick. However, a closer look will see faint horizontal lines. Fortunately, this image quality does not have great effect under normal circumstances.

Acer Aspire 5738DG inside color is Acer style, simple silver and black mix, coupled with decorative blue button. A number of shortkeys in keyboard, including WiFi switch, bluetooth switch, fast backup button for a group of area, volume + / – shortcut keys, as well as customizable keys P program. The keyboard set up an independent numeric keypad, touchpad equips close button and fingerprint reader.

Acer Aspire 5738DG inevitably be more heavy for its built-in drive, 15.6 inch screen.
Acer Aspire 5738DG body size is 383x250x37mm, the offical weight is 2.8 kilograms.

Acer Aspire 5738DG has 300,000 video camera, emphasizing the better shooting capabilities in low-light.
Acer Aspire 5738DG D0lby speakers, power button, WiFi switch, Bluetooth switch and fast backup button.

Mic is located in the central of  Acer Aspire 5738DG(at the top of F11).
There are P program key and volume adjust buttons in the right. It is convenient that if there is a mute button.

Acer Aspire 5738DG touch pad has fingerprint reader in the key position.
Acer Aspire 5738DG interfaces emphasis on its multimedia orientation, also providing VGA and HDMI outputs, three terminals in stereo which provides 5.1-channel analog output, headphone jack is digital S/PDIF optical output, HDMI can also output digital audio.

Acer Aspire 5738DG also equipped with a sufficient number four USB interfaces (left two and right two ), and has a very rare RJ11 modem port. The lack interfaces including IEEE 1394, ExpressCard, eSATA.

Front of Acer Aspire 5738DG : Multi-in-one card reader, radiator, screen cards tenon, light indicator (power / charge).

Back of Acer Aspire 5738DG: the screen shaft, cooling holes.

Left of Acer Aspire 5738DG: power connector, RJ45 interface, HDMI, VGA video output, two USB ports, Line-in jack, Mic jack and Headphone jack.

Right of Acer Aspire 5738DG: two USB interfaces, DVD burner, RJ11 modem port and security keyhole.

Acer Aspire 5738DG keyboard uses unique Acer flat floating buttons. It looks like a thin film floating keys on the keyboard area.

Acer Aspire 5738DG floating keyboard.

Acer Aspire 5738DG touchpad has a virtual scroll.

Acer Aspire 5738DG equips with Intel C2D T6600 (2.2GHz). This processor is lower than T8000, P8000, P7000 series but better than  Pentium T3000, T4000 series. Furthermore, energy saving does not compare with CULV series but it has a higher value of performance advantages of high CP.

Acer Aspire 5738DG has 500GB HDD, and comes with 64-bit Windows 7 operating system. The only regret is proloaded with 2GB memory. Not only fail to take full advantage of Win7 performance, but also let 64 bit version become more meaningless. There is reserved a slot, I recommend to install 2GB DDR2 memory.

3D screen is the most important feature of the Acer Aspire 5738DG also the main selling point.

In this brief to explain the priciples of 3D imaging. Most 3D imaging techiques is to left and right eye see an individual parallax images at the same time, and let us composition of 3D images in their minds.

Another technique is mainly used in the cinema, which is like a kind of 3D movies Avatar. It needs two projectors when play, and add polarized lenses in front of the camera, let left and right eyes images with different polarization directions hit the screen. The audience wearing polaized in different directions to filter the different polarization images, so you can see images you want to see, so as to form a three-dimensional feeling.

Pro of Acer Aspire 5738DG
1. Inexpensive 3D display platform;
2. Can show 2D photos into a virtual 3D video;
3. Convenient shortcut keys;
4. Dolby sound;
5. The efficacy is reasonable.
Disadvantages of Acer Aspire 5738DG:
1. Polarizing-type 3D display quality is poor;
2. Plane turn 3D is ineffective;
3. Low-level single significant 3D performance is still insufficient;
4. Battery endurance only about 2 hours.