Usage and Final Thoughts

The 14-inch panel on the Timeline is nice to expect at, and its 1366x768 resolution is well suited to the screen size. At max effulgence colors were well-baked and had popular to them. Nonetheless, vertical viewing angles were non nifty, and when compared side-by-side with the Averatec N3400 (reviewed here), the Acer Timeline 4810T showed some contrast weaknesses as whites were not as pronounced.

The Timeline 4810T feels sturdy while remaining fairly thin as Acer managed to squeeze in an optical bulldoze, something not establish on many notebooks of this size or price range. Compared to the aforementioned Averatec laptop which is marketed as a lightweight thirteen-inch notebook, the back of the Timeline 4810T is raised up slightly more, while the front is raised equally on both systems.

Out of the box, I was less than thrilled well-nigh the corporeality of bloatware installed on the Timeline. Windows Vista felt sluggish because of this, providing a poor initial experience to novice users who may not take this into business relationship and rather just complain near their brand new system existence deadening. Afterwards removing the unwanted software and installing the latest Bone updates, the organization was noticeably quicker. Looking at forum discussions we've read about electric current owners jumping the initial setup completely in favor of reformatting afterwards receiving their Windows seven install disks, which is the about recommended path at this indicate.

Battery life on the Timeline was outstanding, putting upwards the best numbers we accept seen to date. Running the laptop with the screen at half brightness, sitting idle at the desktop and all ability saving features disabled, the battery was good for 8 hours and fifty minutes. And this was running Vista, which is a bit more power hungry than both XP and Windows 7. The outcome can be attributed to the low voltage Intel Core 2 Solo, operating at only ane.4GHz (10W TDP), which is surprisingly quiet and doesn't put out much heat.

In fact, this may be the quietest notebook I have ever worked with. Fifty-fifty under full load, the arrangement is whisper quiet and only slightly warm to the touch the lesser. The wrist rest expanse didn't seem to generate any estrus at all.

Our performance tests bear witness the Cadre ii Solo processor being roughly twice as powerful as the typical 1.6GHz Cantlet chip plant in nigh netbooks. This means it will exist more than than enough for most basic calculating needs, whilst besides providing decent operation on more than resources intensive tasks like video streaming. For example, non-Hd YouTube videos at full screen were viewable without noticeable lag, just high quality clips from sites like Hulu and CBS pushed the processor over its limit.

In a nutshell

The Acer Timeline 4810T is a solid system that offers infrequent bombardment life, portability and modest performance at a competitive price. As the name suggests, its central selling feature is the long battery life and it certainly delivers in that location.

Currently retailing for $550*, we were satisfied with the Timeline's overall design and build quality. Ideally nosotros could have used either a scrap more than processing power or a better quality screen, but for the price we have to admit what you get is more than adequate. With 4GB of RAM the Timeline is a happy multi-tasker also.

Outstanding product: Acer Timeline fourteen" 4810T Notebook

If you need a notebook with decent processing power that will last the course of the twenty-four hour period without a recharge, the Timeline 4810T could be the one for you.

Pros: First-class battery life, swell keyboard, relatively slim blueprint, built-in optical bulldoze, HDMI out, bonny cost point.

Cons: CPU performance leaves a petty to exist desired, bloatware bundled, unmarried-slice mouse push.

*Newegg sells the Timeline 4810T for $550, while other retailers seem to be charging considerably more for the same model. The Timeline 4810TZ seems to be essentially the same notebook with the difference of a dual core, slightly lower-clocked Pentium SU4100 CPU.