Laptops Arena

Out of all the laptops on the market, the Acer laptop computers are the ones that mostly promote CULV notebooks. The Timeline series of Acer laptop computers is represented by laptop models which are thin and light and they also bring the great advantage of having long lasting battery life.

Let us take the example of the Acer Timeline 3810TZ-4880 laptop. The unit reviewed here came with a starting price of $899 and it is based on a 1.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo U9400 processor which comes combined with 4 GB of RAM. The total storage capacity of the hard drive is 500 GB, making it easy to use this laptop as your primary computer. The graphics card that can be found on this system is the integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500 MHD. The unit comes with the preloaded 64 bit version of the Windows Vista Premium operating system. The dimensions of this laptop are 12.7 x 8.9 x 1.1 while the total weight of the system is 4.5 pounds if we include the power adapter. This indicates that this particular Acer laptop model could be a great ultra portable.



This laptop has a display which measures 13.3 inches in diagonal and it comes with a native resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. A while back, this resolution would have left us all stunned but the truth is that there is a large number of ultra portables that are beginning to use this particular resolution for 13 inch laptops. This display makes the icons and the text very readable and the images are sharp, with vivid colors, thanks to the glossy coating that covers the display. However, glossiness has always been a problem when using you laptop in a powerfully lit environment. This problem is not very disturbing with the Acer Timeline 3810TZ-4880 laptop.

I have always found the selection of ports and connections to be very important for a laptop but the cases are different depending on the size of the unit. You must understand that smaller laptops cannot come with the full array of ports because there is no room to put them all. Let us see how the Acer Timeline 3810TZ-4880 laptop has done at this chapter.  The unit of this laptop model is host to 3 USB ports, one SD card reader, one VGA out, the HDMI port, an Ethernet port and the regular headphones out and microphone in jacks. There is no included optical drive so you will have to choose an external one.



The HDMI port is quite a nice surprise for a 13 inch laptop. The most important part of all is the battery life. Using the severe video test that completely drains the battery, you will get about 5 hours and 30 minutes of battery life which is amazing. Think about the fact that this kind f test is quite rough and when you use the laptop for less demanding tasks, the battery life is bound to increase and this Acer Timeline model should be of assistance throughout a whole day at work.