Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 - Intel Core i7

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 10 expert reviews

Excellent:

1
Good:

8
Average:

1
Bad:

0

Pros:

Powerful graphics in a thin package.
Sleek, thin, and elegant looking.
Above average gaming performance.

Cons:

Mediocre panel.
Width pushes the boundaries of ultrabook portability.

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Last revision on November 13, 2012

Reviewers Liked

Powerful graphics in a thin package
Sleek, thin, and elegant looking
Above average gaming performance
Trackpad is overly sensitive
Relatively light for 15-inch laptop
Excellent battery life
Good audio quality

Reviewers Didn't Like

Mediocre panel
Width pushes the boundaries of ultrabook portability
Very poor overall display quality
Low screen resolution
Headphone Jack on back
No backlit keyboard

Expert reviews and ratings

Acer definitely succeeds in combining the various requirements of a notebook in one device: It is visually appealing, in most cases quiet and energy efficient, highly mobile and enduring. The notebook even has sufficient performance reserve to satisfy...

By NotebookCheck on August 07, 2012

WHEN LOOKING FOR a tagline that will easily sell a boatload of Acer Timeline M3 notebooks, it doesn’t take much more than: “an ultrabook that will play Battlefield 3 on Ultra setting.” And it’s true, too. The Timeline M3 will...

By Maximum PC on June 12, 2012

The Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 is a very good notebook overall, offering exceptional performance and battery life. It's also well built and stylish. However, we wish it had some ports on the sides and that there was a little more room for the...

By Good Gear Guide on June 01, 2012

Though imperfect (the glossy screen is of mediocre quality and the ports aren't necessarily located in the best place), the Acer M3 has a lot of strengths. It has great battery life, it's powerful, it's less than 2 cm thick, it has good...

By DigitalVersus on April 27, 2012

The Acer Timeline M3 offers excellent overall performance and an elegant-looking package, but with less than optimal input devices and an eye-gouging LCD panel that left us cold. You can adjust to an odd keyboard feel, and you can tweak trackpad...

By PC Advisor on April 13, 2012

The Timeline M3 could have been a Macbook killer, if not for the poor LCD...

By PCWorld on April 11, 2012

The first Ultrabook with discrete graphics and a 15-inch screen, the Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 will appeal to gamers on the...

By LaptopMag on March 16, 2012

Nvidia wants to put the "Ultra" in Ultrabooks with the GeForce GT 640M - or so the striking PR statement says. Fortunately, The performance fulfills this statement to no end. The graphics performance of the GT 640M is considerable, all the while ...

By NotebookCheck on March 23, 2012

Some of our editors recently had the opportunity to take part in NVIDIA's Editor's Day in California's "sunny" San Francisco to be briefed on new products. While we can't go into any great detail on NVIDIA's new Kepler architecture...

By AnandTech on March 13, 2012

Bien qu'imparfait (écran brillant de qualité médiocre, connectique pas forcement très bien implantée), l'Acer M3 affiche de nombreuses qualités. Il est autonome, puissant, mesure moins de 2 cm d'épaisseur,...

By Les Numériques on April 20, 2012

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