Discover Acer Timeline 4810T

This machine handles well the basic requirements of mid-range capabilities.

Unlike Acer's heavy and raw Aspire or TravelMate, the Timeline 4810T is thin and light. Size 338.4 x 240 mm, body thickness from 24 to 28.9 mm, weighing only 1.9 kg (2.4 kg when the battery cover) creates a 14-inch laptop - ideal size in ultraportable machine segment.

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The thickest part of the machine is 28.9 mm. Photo: Laptopcuccok .

Although alloy cases are not new, this trend has only appeared on the high-end laptop market with representatives from Apple MacBook or Dell Adamo. Now Acer Timeline 4810T, but a "popular" laptop. Acer Timeline 4810T possesses a gray-brown aluminum alloy case, the surface of the texting surface looks solid.

Acer has introduced this "chiclet keyboard" which is a feature of Apple Macbook and Sony Vaio. The square keys are prominent on the keyboard, the distance of the keys is wide, the color is smooth and black, but the area of ​​the keys is quite small compared to normal, especially the navigation keys at the bottom right corner make it easy for those New users first click wrong. In general, the keys are very sensitive, the bounce is appropriate, very smooth when used for a long time. Just below is the multi-touch touchpad with many new features such as direction control by rotating gestures, flicking the fingertips to zoom in, zoom out and flip the page. However, to fully utilize this touchpad, testers also take time to get used to it. Once you get used to it, the operations bring a very interesting feeling.

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14 inch mirror screen. Photo: Trustedreviews .

Acer Timeline 4810T uses 14-inch mirror screen with WXGA resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels, 16: 9 brightness and true color. At 100% brightness, users will feel glare and glare due to overly glossy coating. It should be noted, the 16: 9 screen at a high resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels surf the web, typing text or reading the ebook for a long time will be very painful, so give a smaller resolution to read the characters. Clear and comfortable. But at the original resolution, watching movies would be better because many pixels are displaying sharper images and more vivid colors.

Built-in Dolby stereo speaker system provides enough volume without distortion, as well as can sense bass when listening to music. Combined with bright screens, true colors, when watching action movies, like Transformers, images show sharp, vivid colors.

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The Timeline 4850T lacks an eSATA port and Express Card slot. Photo: Cnet .

On connection, Acer Timeline 4810T's slim body is 3 USB ports, full of 2 VGA and HDMI video outputs, LAN, Kensington lock, Headphone / Micro jack, 5-in-1 card reader and disc burner DVD. It supports 802.11b / g / n Wi-Fi connectivity standards, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR. The Timeline 4810T lacks two popular connections: the eSATA port and the ExpressCard expansion slot.

Standing in the ultraportable segment, Acer Timeline 4810T has many advantages over its competitors with integrated optical drive, but with the body area not very "spacious", the layout of connection slots is not yet convenient. The DVD tray and LAN slot on the right side and 2 USB slots on the left are too close to the placing surface, every time you want to connect or remove the disc, the user must inevitably have to pick up the phone, which is very inconvenient.

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TimeLine 4810T handles well the basic requirements in mid-range capabilities. Photo: CBSI .

Regarding the operation, unlike the complaints about the quality of the device that Digitize received, Acer TimeLine 4810T handled well the basic requirements in the capabilities of mid-range machines.

With testing machine configured with Intel Core 2 Solo SU3500 1.4 GHz processor, 2 GB RAM, 320 GB HDD, integrated Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics, Windows Vista Home Premium operating system, time The machine's boot is impressive - 53 seconds. This is faster than both Sony Vaio VGN-TT150 (1.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SU9300 processor, 2 GB RAM), or HP Pavilion dv5T-1000 (Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 2.4 GHz, RAM 2 GB).

Indicators assessing the performance of Acer Timeline 4810T show that it is capable of implementing basic programs, such as Microsoft Office office application packages, Web surfing, music listening, watching HD video formats, even is to process ordinary images or play old 3D games at average resolution and output speed.

Acer Timeline 4810T scored 3.2 in the 1-6 scale of "Windows Experience Index" assessing hardware responsiveness to applications of these operating systems. At this point, the Timeline 4810T can perfectly run Windows Vista on top of Aero's high-end graphical interface, play high-resolution video and is suitable for use in office jobs.

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Chiclet keyboard. Photo: Whatlaptop .

With PCMark Vantage testing, the standard suite and set of several encoding / decoding tests, compression / decompression, image management, image format conversion, movie playback, HD video editing / output, Acer Timeline 4810T, which handles audio, PC games, downloads online content, comprehensively evaluates system performance, is 1,511, slightly worse than the MSI X-Slim X340 (1,658) and better than HP Pavillion DV2 (1,430), but only half the average of ultraportables.

In addition, Acer Timeline 4810T reached 731 points when tested with 3DMark 06 to evaluate the system's graphics processing capabilities, lower than the 896 point average of ultraportable models. In particular, only half of the HP Pavilion DV2 scores 1,448 points (thanks to the power of the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3140 graphics card), but still higher than the MSI X-Slim X340's 643 points (using VXL). Intel Core 2 Solo SU3500 1.4 GHz and 2 GB RAM memory.

With the above results, the new 3D gaming on Acer Timeline 4810T is not feasible. But with some good old games like GTA 3 (Grand Theft Auto III) of a gamer's "passion" for a while, Timeline 4810T can play "smooth" at 640 x 480 pixel resolution with video output speed. up to 30 frames per second.

While limited in 3D Game processing, the Intel Core 2 Solo SU3500 1.4 GHz processor with the "relay" of Intel GMA 4500MHD integrated graphics is good for watching HD video. With 720p (1,280 x 720 pixel) format, watching Transformers movies, the device runs smoothly, the image does not get jerky, the sound syncs. Also in Full-HD 1080i resolution (1,920 x 1,080 pixels), with 2 video clips of My Happy Ending (Avril Lavigne) and Fix You (Coldplay) rock music, the capacity is over 500 MB, the image comes out slowly and sometimes jerky picture.

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Metal case. Photo: Maivoo .

In multi-tasking test, just encode a .avi format video of 4 minutes and 60 MB capacity into high quality .wmv format (standard Microsoft video format) with software Windows Media Encoder, while surfing the Web with Internet Explorer 8, while viewing photos and also opening multiple folder windows, Acer Timeline 4810T still works normally. Implementing this test "consumes" 100% of the CPU but only uses up to 47% of RAM.

The video compression process takes 16 minutes and 15 seconds, sometimes the program hangs (not responding) but the video output quality is very good and the operation of other programs is not interrupted. It is good to surf the web or view photos. Meanwhile, the MSI X-Slim X340 (using an Intel Core 2 Solo SU3500 1.4 GHz processor and 2 GB RAM) took 19 minutes and 12 seconds to complete video compression.

The optical drive of the machine also works very smoothly except for the difficulty of opening and closing the tray because it is too close to the surface of the machine. To copy a 2.3 GB data DVD with many different file types (install .exe, .jpg image, .avi video, .rar compressed file .) takes about 6 minutes with an average speed of 6.5 Mbps.

The machine works very cool. For a long 3-hour period of "exhausting" CPU tests, the HDD must work continuously with PCMark Vantage and 3DMark 06, the surface of the device and keyboard is only slightly hotter than the average. often. At that time, the maximum CPU temperature was 53 degrees Celsius and the hard drive was 41 degrees Celsius. At room temperature of 28 degrees Celsius, the average temperature of the CPU was 40 degrees Celsius and the hard drive was 35 degrees Celsius. The heat of the machine works really well thanks to the use of Laminar Wall Jet cooling technology (commonly used in cooling systems for aircraft engines) to help the machine maintain operation at a temperature lower than 6 degrees. C compared to regular laptops.

Battery life is probably the most impressive. All of the above tests are fully conducted on a full charge. Timeline 4810T has been running continuously for 5.25 hours while the battery still has 25%.

Selling price of Timeline 4810T at computer stores nationwide fluctuates around VND 16 million.