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Acer Aspire Timeline 4810T

By Alex Kidman on 15 June 2009

Since when did vendor battery claims actually represent the truth? Acer's Timeline notebook just keeps going and going and going, but it's a pity that it's otherwise underpowered and hampered by Windows Vista.

Editor's rating:7.4 User rating:6.9

Comments (18)

  • beyzi gave 5/10 on 11/12/2009 08:19

    • Good: battery life in vista
    • Bad: battery life in Windows 7 !

    just if someone tell me how to make it to get 8 hours of battey with windows 7 , I willl start loving this product again !

    it is more than reducing the brightness or such kind of simple actions ... there is something related to difficulty of CPU to addapt itself with windows 7 ...

  • aspire to be gave a review on 06/09/2009 18:12

    • Good: Size, Battery, Feautre packed
    • Bad: can lag a little

    This is an ok piece of equipment. It's obviously not a high end notebook, but it suits my needs and im sure the needs of others very well. Mine has built in Telstra Next G which makes it a breeze to get on the net whilst being mobile!

  • Roy Suryo KDRT gave 10/10 on 06/09/2009 04:11

    • Good: everything
    • Bad: none

    buy the su9400 not the su2700 or su3500 processor

    then the cons will be none

    Roy Suryo KDRT
    Pakar Gambar Saru

  • varun gave 1/10 on 03/09/2009 21:22

    • Good: Super Slim, Low Weight, Looks, Battery Life
    • Bad: Rest is Bad.

    Buy this laptop and waste your 35000. Rather buying this laptop,feed the poor kids. At least you will earn some kindness. What a **** What a **** Laptop is this. Do the only thing one expect is looks & low weight ?? The biggest loser of the year is this laptop. It is Ultra Slow. Just double click on the application and then go for a tea. The moment u will be back, u will find it opened. Just imagine you are in a business presentation. a team of 10 members is looking only and only at your laptop screen and it gets hanged...what will you do then. This is my experience with this laptop and this is not a single instance. I reboot it at-least 8-9 times a day. It is not at all Vista Friendly better Acer start installing windows 3.1 with this. Shame on You Acer.

  • Vladimir Strulev gave a review on 30/08/2009 17:25

    • Good: excellent battery life, thin, stable, faster than expected, good specs: 64bit system; 320gb hdd; 4gb ram; abgn wireless; led screen; excellent picture quallity for build in camera
    • Bad: not really. see review below:

    excellent laptop for literally every office, school and work related tasks excluding high demand applications and tasks. when you buy any laptop, desktop or everything else, you have to be aware of it's specs and know what they mean or you will be disappointed. so all those negative reviews are not really negative ones, no offense here. I understand that people in general expect everything while paying less. some say the laptop is slow, lets take a look: yes it has a solo cpu and slower performance must be expected, but it doesn't mean you may compare it with other laptops with duo cpu's because these are two different categories of computers. yes it has build in graphic card so you won't be able to play games and work with graphical programs and it must be expected, too, because this laptop isn't designed to handle these tasks. honestly looking at all the specs, meeting my expectations, performance, wireless, build in dvdr and card reader, thin design, picture quality, etc, I just cannot give this laptop anything less then 10/10.

  • notebook gave a review on 29/08/2009 12:51

    • Good: slim, light, long battery, quiet, cool on the lap
    • Bad: stability

    if you are considering this product i suggest you purchase at a store that allows 'full refund' within some reasonalbe time frame. unfortunately, i purchased at OFFICE DEPOT and basically their policy is if you open the box you own what you opened or can exchange product.

  • Julenissen gave 10/10 on 23/08/2009 21:15

    • Good: Portable, quiet, battery, sleek design
    • Bad: None

    I bought this last week! Its just what i've been looking for. Portable with a great battery life. And very quiet. I'm rather picky about fan noise. I've allreday returned three noisy laptops. And I don't need much processing power, my desktop does the heavy lifting.

  • Frugal gave a review on 17/08/2009 11:05

    • Good: Thin. Well designed in terms of its looks.
    • Bad: Can crash. Video not excellent.

    Bought at Staples. Came in nice packaging. Seemed ready for Win7 update. Good battery life. Good power start-up options to avoid the long shutdown and startup routines. Did crash sometimes, and the automatic recovery seemed to work well, and hands free, but it took forever. If it crashes on you, you really have to be extremely patient while it recovers. It doesn't give you enough feedback as it is recovering. Met my needs very well. Using Skype on it frequently and getting reasonable behavior. Other video sources did seem to tax it more than expected, though perhaps your experience might be different. It was 64-bit, which can be incompatible with some software (mostly older software). It was Vista out of the box, so you may have to grant some older apps Administrator rights to make them work (with the security implications as well). Mouse pad buttons not the best, but tapping the pad was reasonable. The special touch features on the pad didn't work very well, but you can always revert to up/down keys in browsers etc. Worked with my older bluetooth adapter. Worked with a over the air network USB card. Overall, it seemed to be a good value for the price. I would buy a similar one again.

  • Peter gave 9/10 on 16/08/2009 11:55

    • Good: Light 2kg, excellent battery life, aluminium casing
    • Bad: Lid closure slightly loose

    I bought this computer after seeing it on sale at JB Hifi advertising 8 hours battery life. I get less as I turn the screen brightness all the way up. I like the 14 inch size because it also comes with built-in CD drive. I went online to acer and found that it has a Core 2 duo 1.4GHz chip that a number of stores in Australia sell if you look them up online on the Acer site. From this point of view, I have had no problems with the speed or performance.

    Fantastic battery life means I don't have to worry about carrying AC cord although it is very light anyway.

    The lid closure is slightly loose which means it can rattle a little bit if I carry it around the house without a case. I don't understand why it comes with a 32-bit Vista when it has 4GB RAM already installed that is upgradeable to 8GB. Apart from that, I am very happy with it.

  • Smuggler gave a review on 14/08/2009 18:33

    • Good: Super slim product
    • Bad: wifi 5100 agn card sucks! cpu sucks! poor ati card!

    I bought this computer 4 days ago and i have had nothing but problems with it. This is my second acer aspire 4810TG with 1,4 ghz intel centrino solo cpu.Ati Mobility Radeon HD 4330 512mb. It dosent handle 720p and 1080p without slacking and glitching. The wifi card intel 5100 agn wont bound with my d-link Dir-655 router with the settings for 802.11n messures maximum 130mbps to my accesspoint when it should be 300mbps. I have tryed all settings in my router with no luck. I have read a lot on the forums and this is quite a problem. Don´t buy this computer!!! try google it!

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