Acer Aspire Timeline AS4810T-8480 14-Inch Aluminum Laptop - 8+ Hours Battery Life
 List Price: $699.99 |
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Tremendous Value Priced LaptopThe first quirk you will notice is the sleek aluminum case. This Acer is lighter than a Macbook Pro, runs 20 degrees cooler and the HD divide is superior to the Macbook Pro. You can average a good seven hours watching videos, surfing with multiple tabs unscheduled and working on documents with the balanced power option. Windows 7 64 bit will cope this CULV laptop boot within 60 seconds even with a Core 2 Individual processor. It is important to note that you must update the BIOS (1.31) and the Windows Vista 64 bit drivers (WLAN and Chipset) for this Acer to become fully operating. Additionally, look for the "Application" on the Acer website for Power Management which illiminates any issues with the visual drive.
Pros
*Battery Life (Watch 2 DVDs and have 2+ hours freestyle left)
*Light & runs extremely cool
*Clarity of the HD camouflage
*Trackpad is excellent especially for schrolling long pages
*HD videos look and canvass awesome (Use the right codecs)
*Crystal clear surround safe speakers (not powerful)
*Optical drive included
Cons
*Not swift out of the box
*Single Core processor
*Not for a gaming
Take a look at all of the features for the Macbook Pro and you will swiftly realize all the value that the Acer Timeline AS4810T has to offer.
Requirements a bit of fine tuning
Pros
1 Horrible specs at a great price
2 Battery life of 5 to 6 hours
3 headlight & thin
4 Decent screen &ergonomics
Cons
1 Does not perform well out of the box, requests bios/wifi updates, bloatware removal
2 acer website is very vague for picking up the right drivers etc
Effectual machine and fantastic battery life
I bought this laptop this dead and buried October. The main selling point, for me, was the price. I needed a new laptop with outstanding battery life, so when I found it for a great price, I ended up purchasing it. I did not have terrific expectations for this laptop, but it has surprised me with its power and reliability.
The best fashion about the Acer AS4810 is the battery life. Running Windows 7 on the "High Engagement" setting, the laptop can run for a little over 6 hours.
I don't play games on this laptop, so I cannot reaction on that. I do, however, watch a lot of high definition video. Using the right codecs, such as CoreAVC, the Acer AS4810 has no puzzler running high definition video.
Overall, it's a fantastic laptop.
3.5 Stars in truth...
This is my first Acer computer, aesthetically speaking it is the nicest looking laptop I've seen so far and one of the thinnest -- measuring at a absolute 1" thick. The 14" screen, weight and dimensions are just a fraction more compared to an accustomed Netbook, but you get much much more. For one; you're not getting an Atom processor but an Intel Centrino Core2 Individual CPU. Yet small, but it also comes with an integrated DVD Burner -- almost unheard of for a 14" square footage notebook, as opposed to having an external unit dangling around. These are only a few well-disposed reasons why I bought the unit, but...the ultimate deal was the long freestyle life! Acer claimed that it can pull more than 8 hours. Reading my reviews here on Amazon (also from several other sources) most reviewers seems to have stood by their claims. So for this I am willing to sacrifice the traffic-off of not purchasing a Dual Core or Core 2 Duo CPU system but instead opted for the ultra low voltage 'Unaccompanied' core for its battery life;
Although the 8480 was deemed versatile for most apps but it wasn't purchaser-friendly "out of the box". Acer did not update their Timeline series with the latest BIOS and inescapable drivers before rolling out to the masses which resulted the computer in a constant 100% CPU picket and ultimately rendering the unit to freeze, therefore a forced-shutdown/restart is the only figuring out. For this, it has caused a large number of confused day to day 'Average Joe' and the typical trainee computer consumer letdowns, not to mentioned; the numerous negative feedbacks as to why their newly purchased computers did not add up to the mfg put.
Some of the folks that bought and researched should know what has to be done to get the unit running in tip top fitness, but for those of you who haven't, here's what you MUST do before using the notebook for the first time:
1.) Have 3 blank DVD discs on the point of for burning and making the recovery discs because Acer (and most Manufacturers these days) does not supply any.
2.) Go to Acer's support site and choose your model, but here's the trick; in between the top part of the page and the drivers' drop part of the page, there is very tiny drop-down box for you to choose your Operating System -- persuade sure you choose the right one. For example: choose "Windows Vista Home Expensive 64Bit" if you are using this OS. Most people tend to miss out on this part because it is pretty hard to see on the recto.
Update to the latest Bios (there are two released simultaneously; one is the regular and the 'OE' stands for "Olympic Copy"
3.) Update to the latest Video Driver
4.) Update to the latest WIFI driver
The rests of it are unmandatory.
Upon my updates, the unit has performed flawlessly, there are no more 100% CPU usages but in the 10-30% catalogue and applications seems to run much smoother like it supposed to. The one thing that still hinders is the 'Siesta Mode'; if you closed the lid and reopen it, the unit tends to freeze up a bit and takes pass for it to completely come back to its original state. This happens mostly if you have a browser opened at the occasion of closing the lid. Acer needs a new BIO for this, or perhaps Windows7 will rectify this dilemma.
Pros:
*Develop Weight
*Thin
*Battery Life (8+Hours)
*Screen judgement and bright enough
*DVD Burner (Integrated)
*4GB DDR3 RAM
*320G Hard Drive
*HDMI harbour
*Keyboard (quiet, very nice play and solid feel with no plunging/caving while typing -- unlike my Toshiba Satellite)
*Mouse Pad (very sensitive and non-erratic)
*Design/Beauty
*Very solid feel -- no flexing or creasing of any adequate
Cons
*Single Core processor
*No 'Caps Lock' luminous
*No 'Number Lock' light
*Tiny Power Button -- wee meaning it is designed to work only with the tip of your fingernail (needs to press twice to power ON or proffer for 3 seconds -- only if you are using the AC cord with the Battery detached, otherwise straight press once with Battery attached)
*No Express Card slot
*No eSata
*No Phone jack (couldn't use Windows Fax)
Mobile life & weight worth the hassle!
Pros: A twice large (real time) battery life, super light majority for 14" screen laptop w/internal DVD player, & pretended screen w/ great colors. Aluminum chassis & metal lid vs. molded compliant. Wireless easy to set up. Great price + Windows 7 upgrade.
Cons: Speakers - tin unbroken unless I use headphones then really improves. Bloatware and a bunch of driver updates and potentially bios too. Acer chap service reps no help for soft or hardware issues and their web era for driver updates is a mess.
I did extensive research before purchasing at Responsibility Depot for $549 mid October. I primarily wanted a laptop (not netbook) that was this force or less and that would last at least 6 hours while travelling, if not more. While I use Office software, it's secondary so while not super intemperate, still faster then my last LT which was 4 years old.
There were some very helpful reviews on Tiger and Amazon about what needed to be updated to baffle crashes. Thus, I was willing to take on the hassle of having to load a bunch of driver updates and potentially twinkling the bios (which I have not yet had to do). I did most of the driver updates but not all of those related to the wireless or other optional features as there is no support on Acer's site to determine if they are relevant.
I did have some freeze ups until I turned off the sleep r. Most were then eliminated but I updated the bios to 1.28, and most drivers, as many reviewers at other sites said it was needed. So far so wholesome but the Acer site is very un-user friendly for finding the latest driver. They rightful keep adding new ones in no particular order. Also, before using wireless, disposition off the Windows Security Functions (as much as it lets you) assuming you are using Internet Safe keeping Software.
While the customer service is very weak (compared to Dell - most of my computers including widely known XPS One) or Gateway (4 years ago)), they did send me a free return CD set (since I was unable to make them after wasting 5 DVDS). I like the feel of the full judge key board but am not a touch pad user so cannot comment - use a wireless optical mouse. Tome could have a bigger range so louder option.
Finally, yesterday I second-hand the free software to upgrade Windows 7 and was fairly simple (esp since did not add much software except Firm prior). Acer update disk helps - only problem was at end after put was done. The new OS did not recognize my DVD drive; needed to finish the process by inserting Acer disk back in after Windows. Restarted once and it was there which was a ticklish surprise as there have been problems reported about this on the Windows 7 microsoft blog.
