Acer has announced the Acer Aspire X3200 desktop. The “multimedia powerhouse” has an AMD Phenom X3 processor, NVIDIA GeForce graphics, Blu-ray Disc technology, and Dolby Home Theater sound. The compact chassis has a 640GB hard drive, nine USB ports, and IEEE 1394 port, eSATA port, and a multi-in-one card reader to attach all your multimedia devices. [acer]

Earlier this week, we covered the forthcoming FS series of notebooks by Sony, which feature a sizeable display and a blu ray drive.  Not one to be outdone, Acer announced today that they will be shipping their Acer Aspire Gemstone Blue starting now.  The Gemstone Blue features a blu ray drive and a colossal 18.2″ display.  This nine pound behemoth features two hard drives, giving more storage space than you could possibly need in a notebook.  The Gemstone is the granddaddy of laptops that we’ve seen this year, and we don’t expect this beast to be bested any time soon… [thanks gizmodo]

Buy: from $1,800

We’re pretty sure this thing is a desktop gaming PC, but the jury is still out. You could swap out the Acer logo and the “Aspire Predator” branding, and we wouldn’t know what the hell this thing is. Maybe some sort of new military technology? BFG9000? Cold fusion? No, it really is a gaming PC, Acer’s answer to the Dell XPS and Alienware high-end gaming machines. The Acer Aspire G7700 features the best of current Core 2 Extreme and Quad Core processors, up to 8GB of RAM, three NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX graphics cards and pretty much anything else a gaming addict could hope for. Acer says this thing isn’t gas powered, but we’re sure they’re lying. We’re certain this machine has a ripcord like a lawn mower and runs on 100 octane premium. Or, uh, cold fusion. [via gizmodo]

Buy: $TBA