Acer laptop travelmate aspire comparison

[cruentus]

Hello all

I've been researching a new laptop recently.

Mainly I looked at the £500-£600 range looking to maximise power for the money.
Although it's the site I personally use for PC buying I found scan.co.uk was not particularly good for laptops.
I found ebuyer.com to have a better range and be better priced.

My criteria was i5 processor and a trackpad with proper buttons - not button-zones marked on the pad. I use mouse when in the office but this laptop needs to travel round a lot. I really dislike the current trend of all in one trackpads and have no idea why the manufacturers think they're a good idea.

I've just been comparing the following:

Travelmate 5460: £517.49inc. vat
http://www.ebuyer.com/322071-acer-tr...p-lx-v5403-165

Aspire V3-571G: £557.50inc. vat
http://www.ebuyer.com/395568-acer-as...p-nx-rzjek-010

For £40 extra that buys a proper nvidia graphics cards and 4GB more RAM, which is a significant advantage.

My question to the people of this board is as follows:
The Aspire appears considerably more powerful for a small amount of extra money. Is this really the case?

... and if anyone has any strong recommendations, I'm open to them.

Edit: I'm only interested in the hardware here - Windows 8 is a non-issue as I have spare a Windows 7 copy to install if necessary.