With so many various factors to bear in mind when purchasing a laptop, finding the right one may be a frightening assignment. Portability and battery lifestyles are the contemporary traits, at the side of cost of direction, which has delivered about the latest surge of netbooks. However as I’ve said earlier than -- and I nevertheless stand by way of the declaration -- netbooks are remarkable for simple tasks, but lack the electricity to be greater than a complement to a real pocket book or computing device system.

Today we can be looking at the Acer Timeline 4810T notebook, a 14-inch ultra-portable that goals to bridge the space between underpowered netbooks and cumbersome notebooks, while preserving the battery durability found in the ultra-modern era of netbooks. The Timeline has an outstanding claimed battery life of over eight hours.

Acer's Timeline series accommodates of four specific notebook sizes: thirteen.three, 14, and 15.6 inches have been the standard versions launched in advance this yr, and most these days a smaller eleven.6" model become additionally delivered at some stage in the Windows 7 launch week. Most specs are shared among the group with a few variants like CPU pace, difficult power capability and the optical pressure option. What we would like to set up right here is that many of our impressions at some stage in this overview will observe to different Timeline models, notwithstanding the apparent size implications.

The Timeline 4810T that we are checking out today falls inside the middle of the p.c. With its widescreen 14-inch LED backlit show that sports a 1366x768 resolution. The 4810T is powered by way of an Intel Core 2 Solo SU3500 processor working at 1.4GHz, 4GB of DDR3 reminiscence (expandable to 8GB), a 320GB tough pressure, Intel GS45 chipset with 4500MHD included snap shots and Intel Wi-Fi Link 5100 that support Draft-N connectivity.

Acer will attempt to tug the eight+ hour claim using a 6-cellular battery at the 4810T. Other fashionable capabilities for this 14-inch computer consist of a 8x SuperMulti optical power, built-in webcam and multi-card reader. The Timeline's specifications are handiest shy of a casual gaming cellular gadget due to the incorporated photographs, however at $550 and four.2 kilos I discover it difficult to whinge.

We'll discover the Timeline 4810T in better element next.