First 18 inch display , acer has always been a global power house but the company has a relatively anemic presence in united states. Now that it has merged with gateway . the display has same native resolution as a 1080p Hd Tv the lower end version the visully addentical aspire 89206048 trades the intel core to duel t9500 cpu for a t5550 from 320 gb of hard drive space of 250 gb drop from 4gb ram to 3 gb ram with the maximum amount 32bt vista can adressed anyway ovalrall it is a best laptop according to the modern technology requirement .