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Acer Timeline 14" 4810T Notebook Review
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With so many different factors to consider when purchasing a laptop, finding the right one can be a daunting task. Portability and battery life are the current trends, along with value of course, which has brought about the recent surge of netbooks. However as I’ve said before -- and I still stand by the statement -- netbooks are great for simple tasks, but lack the power to be more than a supplement to a real notebook or desktop system.
Today we will be looking at the Acer Timeline 4810T notebook, a 14-inch ultra-portable that aims to bridge the gap between underpowered netbooks and bulky notebooks, while retaining the battery longevity found in the latest generation of netbooks. The Timeline has an incredible claimed battery life of over eight hours.
The 4810T is powered by an Intel Core 2 Solo SU3500 processor operating at 1.4GHz, 4GB of DDR3 memory (expandable to 8GB), a 320GB hard drive, Intel GS45 chipset with 4500MHD integrated graphics and Intel Wi-Fi Link 5100 that support Draft-N connectivity.
Read the complete review.
Today we will be looking at the Acer Timeline 4810T notebook, a 14-inch ultra-portable that aims to bridge the gap between underpowered netbooks and bulky notebooks, while retaining the battery longevity found in the latest generation of netbooks. The Timeline has an incredible claimed battery life of over eight hours.
The 4810T is powered by an Intel Core 2 Solo SU3500 processor operating at 1.4GHz, 4GB of DDR3 memory (expandable to 8GB), a 320GB hard drive, Intel GS45 chipset with 4500MHD integrated graphics and Intel Wi-Fi Link 5100 that support Draft-N connectivity.
Read the complete review.
User Comments (6)
Post a comment| kimsland on November 10, 2009 5:04 AM | Po
werSmart button at the top of the keyboard, is a good
idea And so is the cooling new design of Laminar Wall Jet technology And looks good |
| treeski on November 10, 2009 8:59 AM | I think my mom is in the market for a new laptop, to replace her now 10 year old desktop. I'll have to show this one to her. It looks very sleek and I'm pretty impressed with the specs, considering that price. I'm pretty sure a custom built notebook from Dell or HP would cost over $1000. |
| freedomthinker on November 10, 2009 10:20 AM | Mee want this.... :drool: |
| Guest on November 10, 2009 3:31 PM | Reasonably light but certainly not "ultraportable" anything.
Also, who the heck uses their monitor at half brightness?
No one I know except maybe in the dark (rare). Please do
the battery score with at least 80-90% brightness and IN USE
which is what the average user does - and make no mistake
about it, this will make a difference in the 6-cell battery
score. Finally, I get tired of the whimpy graphic chips -
Ultraportable and Inexpensive really start to lose their
shine for me when I'm forced to buy a second more expensive
machine just to play some reasonably up-to-date games and do
some reasonable photo-editing. I guess if you are just a correspondence user than it's not a problem - but then again you could get a significantly cheaper and more portable machine if this is your main need. 8+ hours battery life "seems" exemplary but please do a "real" test with it. Sitting idle at half brightness does NOT qualify unless one only uses their laptop as a glorified picture frame in a dark room.?!? |
| captain828 on November 11, 2009 4:40 AM | Guest, Acer also offer a better equipped version, with a
dedicated ATi HD4330 GPU. The extra cost isn't that much either, so it makes little sense not to get the one with the dedicated GPU. Also, you can switch to the Intel GMA when you want (default setting is to switch to it when on battery) so you can still have great battery life. Personally, I can run CSS at max detail with 60FPS (vsync on), so it's a very decent GPU. |
| Guest on February 6, 2010 6:55 PM | Netbook price and notebook performance with bells and
whistles = major win. Needs a bios update and OS update out of the box though. Runs great with win 7 & ubuntu. |
