I think it's a smart move to wait till bing expires. I can't understand why no one else has these when they are obviously in the hands of the distributors. Anyway, when you get your unit, make sure to take pics of the swap. It takes time and patience to fit the KB unit correctly.
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Take a look at the 3820TG thread, the German units may be "Kaput".
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i guess your laptops value just shot up three fold
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@Bronsky: If you sell your laptop, I wonder what will happen. Huge profit or german government demanding the laptop back?
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They will have to pry my Acer from my cold, dead hands.
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Hey all. I'm a fed up envy user. I'm pretty close to getting the 4820tg from microcenter. I was really hoping for a higher resolution screen.
I know acer laptops have been modded extensively. Has anyone tried replacing the Lowish quality LCD on one of these timelineXs with a higher definition one? Does anyone think this is possible?
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I've been lurking the forums for a while, mainly keeping tabs on the Asus UL30JT and the Acer 3820TG. Since both of those appear to be mostly U.S. vaporware, I've jumped up to 14" and taken the plunge today on the i5 4820tg from MC.
This is my first personal laptop, though i've picked out 2-3 for my wife in recent years. Pretty excited about it, though I'm worried how much trouble i'll have transitioning away from my desktop (especially my 23" 1920x1080 monitor!!)
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all in due time
. should have my paws on it by Thursday or so.
Though my review/impressions will be coming from the very different vantage point of someone who has logged probably 25,000+ hours on desktops over the past 20 years compared to maybe 25 TOTAL hours on various laptops. -
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Been using this notebook for awhile and I notice an annoying bug/error/whatever. When on battery, the sound switch between the Speaker and the Realtek Digital Output.
So after watching a video on youtube for example, the next video would give no sound.
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I install the driver from Acer website and now it doesn't happen for me anymore but the Dolby setting from the Sound options disappear.
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Hey, it make no different to me though. Still love this little gem.
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My 4820tg just arrived, I haven't opened it yet cos I'm nervous abour screen and build quality
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The screen shouldn't be something new. It's almost the same as the Asus UL series laptops and should be similar to most laptops under $1K. I expected this when I brought it.
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Has anyone found out if they can replace that cd area for another Hard drive or somehow making it cooler without having to buy a cooler?
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The box is very good too. No harm at just staring.
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I just opened my 4820tg, I hesitated cos I wanted to make sure I won't return it . Build quality is actually nice, the top cover is beautiful (personal taste), but I'm kinda worried about the screen hinges. Keyboard does have a little flex but it doesn't bother me at all, I don't notice anything while typing, only when I actually tried to press around the keyboard as hard as I can. Touchpad is the best out of the laptops I've tried lately (toshiba r705, sony CW). The display could be better, the CW display put this one to shame, much nicer colors.
Is something wrong with my screen because it's grainy, I can kinda "see" the pixels, it's kinda annoying. 1366x768 prob isnt the best for 14" but I didn't notice anything like this on the CW. -
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Back to my audio problem. Anyone know how to get the Dolby Surround Sound back for the Sound option.
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After lurking on these forums for a while I've worked out that the 3820TG isn't coming to Australia any time soon.
So I went out this morning and bought a 4820TG-434G50Mn with i5-430 and but no Bluetooth. Cheap (for Australia) at A$1100 after Acer cashback.
This is a big step up from my Eee S101 and I'm looking forward to putting it through its paces. Happy to confirm if the i5-430 doesn't suffer from the throttling like the i3 once I get everything installed.
One initial interesting thing is the WEI numbers. I got 5.5 for the HDD (WDC 500GB) which seems low. Is this within the normal range for a 5400RPM drive (coming from SSD on the Eee).
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oh my 3280tg thats the first thing i notice how crappy the display is, i can see the pixels lil dots even on this site at any brightness level.
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AUO322C i've been trying to take a pic of it but it's hard
I think bronsky has the same display... he said in the other thread
I might just be extremly picky, but my sister who is not in the technology mumbo jumbo though something was wrong with my wall paper.
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Yea lastdon and I have the same manufacturer. My display is great ... i'm very pleased with it.
This picture was taken with a flash and the colors still hold up. The Acer's 13.3" 720p display is in front of my LG 24" 1080p display. Other than some subtle hues, the Acer does fine with the same picture. I guess my display was not made on Monday or Friday.
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From a distance yes it looks good. But u notice it when ur closer to the display that there is a grainy pixel effect. U can see morr pixels squares on low brightness levels.
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The acer shot is actually closer to the display than the shot of my 24" LG. Had to take it with my Blackberry. My camera bettery died.
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well the 3820tg and 4820tg have the same resolution but the 4820tg is bigger so it's more noticable on the 4820tg
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WTH? I would be pissed if I had lines like that in my display. I don't see any of that stuff in my screen at any light level. What is microcenter's return policy, cause I would be returning that unit.
Sorry for the double post, I have no idea what is going on there.
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not sure, but that is what the camera produced jpegs, ididn't touch them or anything what it took is what i upload..
some of the pics those wavey lines i think are the camera but the square dots are the actual screens and my camera doesn't even have macro that i used so it's still at a distance
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That does look quiet bad Lastdon, i owned the 5820TG for a month before selling it to the oldman and had nothing like that on my AUO panel.
I did notice the horrible viewing angles from everywhere (mostly vertical) and colours were a bit off almost washed depending on the wallpaper. Blacks were a problem. The screen looked very nice sitting dead on and having it lined up perfect which was a pain as i am used to having nice screens (awesome viewing angles) with my older toshiba's.
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