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Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 - Intel Core i7

Based on 13 reviews

Excellent:

1
Good:

11
Average:

1
Bad:

0

Pros

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.

Cons

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

By NotebookCheck on August 07, 2012

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...

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By Maximum PC on June 12, 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...

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By Good Gear Guide on June 01, 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...

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By DigitalVersus on April 27, 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...

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By PC Advisor on April 13, 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...

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By PCWorld on April 11, 2012

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

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By NotebookCheck on March 23, 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 ...

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By LaptopMag on March 16, 2012

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

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By AnandTech on March 13, 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...

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By Les Numériques on April 20, 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,...

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