Acer unveils Timeline 8000 Series Laptops

Acer unveils Timeline 8000 Series Laptops

Techtree News Staff, Jul 31, 2009 1230 hrs IST

Promises battery life of up to eight hours and an option of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 GPU

Last month, Acer had introduced slim Timeline series laptops in India based on Intel Ultra Low Voltage platform. Acer has now added Timeline 8000 series notebooks to the 3000, 4000 and 5000 series Timeline lineup. New Timeline 8000 series will feature slim laptops in 13-inch, 14-inch and 15-inch display sizes. No information on pricing or availability has been made available as yet.

Acer's Timeline series are powered with Intel's Ultra Low Power platform based processors. We reviewed Acer Timeline 3810T laptop and found it to be balanced with value, design and productivity. New Timeline 8000 series laptops are designed to meet the needs of both business and consumer segment users.

Timeline 8000 series notebooks will be offered in 13.3 inch, 14 inch and 15.6 inch displays that support 1366x768 resolutions. These notebooks will feature Intel Core 2 Duo or Intel Core 2 Solo Ultra Low Voltage Platform based processors. Up to 4GB or 8GB DDR3 RAM would be packed according to the 32-bit or 64-bit operating system chosen. Storage features either 160GB or 500GB HDD or 80GB Intel X25-M SSD. Graphics would be taken care of by Intel 4500MHD integrated chip or users can choose discrete ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 graphics card.

All Timeline 8000 series laptops will have a multi touch trackpad, which is becoming a norm these days and the WLAN will support Draft-N wireless standard for better wireless Internet connectivity. Acer Timeline 8000 series laptops claim to be offering a battery life of up to eight hours.

Obviously, the battery life would be dependent on the applications and usage of the laptop. We'll see and test that when these laptops are made available.