New Acer Aspire Timeline, a super thin laptop w/DVD drive & full sized keyboard.
August 30, 2009 Post a Comment
Aspire Timeline 4810-8480 laptop about $700/ & Up The new Aspire Timeline Series is designed to deliver exceptional 8-hours battery life on a single charge. Part of the energy saving comes from having an LED backlit Hi Def 14” display. (13 & 15.6-inch models are also available. It ships with Windows Vista Home Premium, but you’ll be able to get a free upgrade to Windows7 when it comes out at the end of October. This computer, which is only about 1 inch thick, uses the Intel Core2 Solo Processor running at 1.40GHz. It’s not blazing fast, but it saves battery power and is certainly perfect for most computing chores you’ll have. 4GB of RAM is very good, and there’s a robust 320GB hard drive. Unlike Netbooks which don’t have optical drives, this Timeline 4810 has an integrated Super-Multi drive. There’s also a convenient built in 5-in-1-card reader. The display is the Acer CineCrystal 14.0" WXGA (1366 x 768) TFT display. And there’s an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD. Students can keep in touch with folks back home and all their friends via the net with the built-in 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N WLAN and integrated webcam with mic. Weight is about 4.2 pounds. All the specs and options are at the company’s website:
UPDATE: In an ad in Tuesday’s NY Times J&R Music has one version of this Timeline computer for $559.99 after $50 rebate.
http://www.jr.com/acer-computer/pe/ACE_AS4810TZ401/
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