• Acer Timeline X 4820T

    Acer Timeline X 4820T

    Rohan Naravane, Jul 09, 2010 1230 hrs IST

    This slim laptop has decent processing power and is ideal for surfing the net and watching movies

    Powerful Core i3 processor upgrade from earlier model, thin frame and lightweight, screen great for watching HD movies, comfortable keyboard and multi-touch touch-pad, good battery life

    Screen hinge is a little weak, a little expensive

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Acer's Timeline series of laptops have all fared well in the past. Typically, manufacturers would want to add a premium to to every thin laptop they manufacture, but not Acer. These guys gave us affordable laptops that were slim and weighed a comfortable two kilos. The Timeline 4810TZ was a good blend of Intel's power conservative ULV processors that are powerful to run regular tasks and (along with Intel's GMA4500 graphics) even play 1080p video smoothly. It had a regular 14-inch screen; perfect for people who didn't want to compromise on the smaller screen of a netbook.


 
Now, Acer has renewed the Timeline series with the Timeline X 4820T laptop, which we have for review today. The most interesting change in the 4820T is the upgrade to a regular laptop-grade Core i3 330M processor. However, what's more interesting is that Acer still prints the same "8 hour" battery life claim like they did with the Timeline 4810TZ. In our tests, the 4810TZ did manage to survive for 5-6 hours of real world usage, which was a good show by itself. Other than a change in design, the rest of the internal specs are the same. So, will the Core i3 processor end up wrecking the Timeline X's high battery life claim? Let's find out.


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Nandakumar
,Bengaluru, on Apr 04, 2011 05:50 PM
Hi Rohan, can you recommed me Laptop with usual day to day requirement is given below; 1 constantly viewing my email via Microsoft Outlook. 2 Web surfing 3 with little bit of multimedia feature 4 14" Screen 5 White colour 6 3GB Ram / 320 GB Harddisk Cheers
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,mumbai, on Nov 08, 2010 11:58 AM
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Suresh
,Mumbai-Greater/Thane, on Oct 26, 2010 11:30 PM
Hey Rohan, give me an opinion on the Acer 5742G with core i5 and the new Nvidia 420m. I am so tempted by the specs but I have heard that Acer laptops suffer from quite a few problems within a year. Any views?
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Anonymous
,system32, on Jul 09, 2010 03:02 PM
For mild-gaming Acer Timeline X 4820T will do, packed with Intel Core i5 processor and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650(which offers reasonable gaming performance at competitive price and low power usage.)
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Anonymus
,Mumbai, on Sep 07, 2010 02:14 PM
What do u mean by mild gaming..? And with the specs of i5 and the graphic card, it should be viable for decent gaming..why is it not suggested for the same?
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Abhinav Kishore
,Gurgaon, on Jul 29, 2010 09:37 AM
Hi Rohan, may I have your contact number, we also want get review of our product from you
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Gaurav
,Mumbai, on Jul 16, 2010 03:16 PM
Please make a separate page for specifications.
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Rohan
,Techtree , on Jul 16, 2010 04:00 PM
There is a separate page for specs. Just that you have to click the "Check Specifications" link to go to it.
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Kapila
,Punjab, on Jul 09, 2010 07:53 PM
In this price range please recommend a laptop for office use and movie watching/music etc.
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Rohan
,TechTree, on Jul 10, 2010 08:46 PM
You could check out either the Dell Inspiron 14R or 15R in this price range for the tasks that you've mentioned. Or also the Compaq Presario CQ42-176TU as well.
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