Acer TimelineX 3820TG Owners Lounge. Info, benchmarks, tweaks, mods and upgrades

At the moment no.

Or you are using a game/software, which one block the switch and an error message is displayed. "It was impossible to switch the grafikcard."

 

You can just set it to "discrete" graphics in bios and it will always use the ATI card.

 

What about the screen for the travelmate 8371? Would that work?

 

Yes,

the both "none glare" screens should work but they are the bad ones.
The model from LG has only a contrast from 300:1 and the second is from AUO again. The company AUO is known for cheap display's with poor quality.

I'm looking for the better display from LG with 500:1 or the Samsung display.

 

I'm really having trouble finding info on replacing a display. If the resolution, size, and pin-connector match, will the new lcd work?
Or does every laptop series/brand have its own propietary connector?

 

From a test posted in the 4820tg review thread, it looks like the i5 model might have sufficient cooling.

Next month I'm going to get it, and go gung ho on testing for 5 days. If it withstands the tests, I'll be happy to have it! If not, more praying for a 3820tg.

 

Just a question, what wireless speeds are you guys getting with Broadcom (maybe everyone has?). In mbits please. Me? Not over 70mbits... 30 cm from router. Router or wireless card problem? I dont know but router is supposed to be better... ;<. D-link Dir-600 router.

 

Didnt Notebookreview just review one of those anti-glare protectors?

ViewGuard Anti-Glare Matte Screen Protector Review Check it out .

 

Thanks, I brought one. I will just seem if I can fit the thing without air bubbles and dust under it!

 

I found a very nice vid showing some very useful tips. I think I remember the link.

Here it is:
YouTube - Installing ClearCal Anti-Glare Film for Glossy Displays

Not Viewguard but should be the same process .

 

Its more difficult with the 3820 though, you dont have as much space with the frame surrounding the screen. Didnt use tape for mine, but sounds like a good idea. Also I really recommend using a !fresh! anti-static cleaning cloth, thats where i failed a bit

 

I just installed it and got a significantly louder sound, especially with the headset. Thanks!

My problem remains though. I'm almost certain that this noise somehow comes from the hard drive because the noise is louder while the hard drive is working a lot; at boot-ups, starting applications etc. I also hear this sound while playing music, but only a little bit and while having low volume. I have only yet heard this with headset, and can't really tell if it's the same thing with the speakers.

---

I have now also successfully installed my new Momentus XT with W7 Enterprise. I tricked Acer eRecovery with an application called Virtual CD (demo available for free) and made a backup of the drivers and applications. Then I installed W7 and the drivers with a USB-stick. Thanks liath for Virutal CD!

 

Any idea when the 3820TG and/or 4820TG will be available in the US?

 

No offense, but with the slightest bit of searching in this thread and the other 4820 threads, you would know that the 4820TG has been on sale for a few weeks now and the 3820TG is not likely to be here for quite some time.

Bronsky

Hey Insider, we'd be hearing from you if you saw any 3820TG's coming with the 5650 right?

 

If the Acer sales and marketing guys can`t figure out that back to school is the perfect time to sell a value based laptop, with gaming potential,then they`re not half as smart as they think they are!

 

I have done some research of my noise-issue. The answer I found to be very likely is this one:

Here are some links which contains info of the same issue (I think) as I am having:

Background noise - speakers and headphones
Buzzing noise in Forte headphone only during 3D audio - [H]ard|Forum
Reducing Headphone Noise from the HyperMac Battery
http://forum.notebookreview.com/dell/165344-vostro-headphone-jack-noise-solution.html
My hard drive makes my headphones make a fuzzy noise [Archive] - AnandTech Forums
Harddisk causing speaker noise [Archive] - Antionline Forums - Maximum Security for a Connected World

What I know for sure is that the hard drive is causing this. I happened with my old hard drive, and is happening with my current.

What should I do guys

 

Maybe they have North American stock of T3810s that they haven't sold? I'm sure what they do is for a reason. If they release a superior product here immediately then they will totally destroy any opportunity to sell their current products.

To other owners: what wifi card came with your notebooks? I see some Broadcom and some Atheros. What are the differences? Which one is better?
Thanks

 

They DID release a superior product here immediately. It's called the 3820T.

The marketing folks @ Acer obviously think there is not enough demand here in the NA for the 3820TG w/ 5650...

Yea, we all want it, but we're a notebook enthusiast forum... we probably represent barely 1% of 1% of Acer's total market share.

The answer is simple, if Acer had positive data showing they would make a profit selling the 3820TG here, they would.

I think the biggest reason we haven't seen the 3820TG w/ 5650 here is the fact that the general public still wants/needs an ODD. Hence why we see the 4820TG w/ 5650 here.

 

So I'm guessing the only 4820TG model here in the US is the AS4820TG-5637 with the i3 processor and 6-cell battery? Give me an i5 with 9-cell and I'm buyin

 

............. wow

 

You can always buy the CPU and battery separate?

 

Here in Vancouver, they made A LOT of advertisements with 4810/1810 olympic versions--which are still in stock LOL sucks for us =( maybe if they didn't make the olympic versions we would have more 3820/4820

 

May or may not be interesting...
Acer has a new AS3820TG-5452G50nsse on their Taiwan site.
Only noticed because I recently returned to the US after a year in Taipei.

Intel ® Core ™ i5-450M processor
(3 MB L3 cache, 2.40 GHz with TurboBoost turbine speed up to 2.66 GHz)
Mobile Intel ® HM55 Express Chipset
Acer InviLink ™ Nplify ™ 802.11b/g/n
Independent Graphics: ATI HD 5650 1G DDR3 discrete graphics entities
System Memory: 1 * 2GB DDR3 1066 System Memory
Screen Size: 16:9 The 13.3 "LED backlit wide-screen (1366 x 768)
Storage: 500GB SATA hard drive

Weird... 2 GBs
I'd have friends mail one to me, except that computers
typically cost 30% extra or more in Taiwan plus $60 shipping.

 

Good to know. I'm so tired of being let down by laptop screens. Screens and speaker quality go downhill for a few measly dollars that I would happily pay for to get improvements on. Screens such as those on the 12" Fujitsu Lifebook series are the best I've seen in newer laptops, even if they're far from quality desktop displays in terms of overall quality.

Still sure it's mediocre though. Anything's better than my Asus's 1080P screen - no amount of correction will get it to match my other screens and photos' actual colors. Good for software development and some gaming but that's it.

 

i think this is very interesting IF they didn't have a 3820TG config on the site before.

if they DID have a 3820TG config, and this is just newer, i don't think it means much. we are seeing the new refreshed i5s across the globe. 430 -> 450.

another example of this is computeruniverse selling the 430 models, then telling bronsky they are out of stock on that model, and he was "forced" to purchase the 450 version.

 

The 4820TG with Core i5 + 500GB hard drive is sold at Microcenter. Micro Center - Acer Aspire TimelineX AS4820TG-3195 Laptop Computer - Carbon Black LX.PSE02.228

I personally don't like the 9-cell; it sticks from the bottom and looks ugly. It's all a matter of preference.

 

I had an issue today which i dont understand:

While using the laptop I notice that the top center plastic tab thats
holding the keyboard in place is not doing its job properly. So I push it in
a couple of times and press the keyboard down until it clicks back into place.

As soon as i did this the computer went into some sort of standby procedure, then shut down. So I immediately tried starting the pc again only to find that it was dead. Completely dead. No lights, no nothing.

I pondered on this problem abit and then suddenly 5 minutes later the pc
booted up by itself - I was away from the pc at the time, ripping my hair out - and has worked flawlessly since.

Anyone know what would cause this?
Is it a common issue?

 

The signal strength with broadcom card is totally crap and thus range is short.

Previous experience with atheros is quite good.

 

Has anyone confirmed that using throttlestop prevents the throttling of a the i3 cpus in the 3820tg? Or is this just really dangerous?

 

zucks that the american consumer just swallows whatever sh1t is shoved down their throats, and enjoy it.

acer needs to sell us the damn 3820tg's...

 

Yep looks good, but do you think there would be space? Also how would we mount it? With super glue?

Neither card is any good really, Hence why I recommend the Intel wifi link 6200 which is what I installed. But in my experience with both the atheros and broadcom. The broadcom is slightly better.

 

On second thought I think your right Bronksy, looks as if this will do the job nicely!

 

Let me ask you what kind of speeds you got with your Broadcom and if it the speed increased when switching to Intel? Im getting around 55-65 mbit/s with my Broadcom. I wish it would be higher since i have a routher that would allow higher speeds.

 

I'm having a hard time keeping track of all the information that's been spread out among this thread including:

• Purchasing options
• Reinstalling Windows
• Overclocking
• Benchmarks and Battery life
• Installing newer ATI drivers
• Installing custom hardware (keyboards, wireless cards)
• Accessories

 

You can not compare only the wifi cards in your laptop.

You have compair the complete chain.

• Router incl. Firmware and revison number
• the environment
• the protocol of the file transfer
• the server
• other devices on the wlan / other APs
• etc

 

Hendrickson, where did you buy your ViewGuard anti-glare screen protector? I can't seem to find an online reseller in Europe. How much did it cost you? After you are done with yours, can you please give me some tips on how to install it without the air bubbles? Thanks.

I'm also looking at this 3M product: Vikuiti? ARMR200 screen protector for Acer Aspire TimelineX 3820T

 

240-300. Sometimes 130mbit/s. I've been having issues with my stupid netgear wireless N router. It d/cs after a while when at 300mbits. Its not bad really the broardcom, the intel card is slightly better with signal strenght.

I got an ebay one, basiclly the same thing.

 

But if they were smart...
They would see how successful a portable, yet capable, laptop could be. Take a look at how much attention Alienware is receiving for their 11". The 3820TG would be a more powerful alternative that is less expensive and has aesthetics that nearly anyone can live with.

On that note, I wonder what Asus' sales #s are for the UL80VT vs UL30VT.

 

That would be a bad guess.

 

No one has tried it becuase the throttling is there probably to prevent the meltdown of the on-board GPU.

 

You need to quit your day job and move into your parent's basements like the rest of us so you can keep up with this thread.

Bronsky

 

Bronsky we should move the backlit switch discussion to the backlit mod thread: http://forum.notebookreview.com/acer/491169-acer-timelinex-3820tg-backlit-keyboard-mod.html

I've got some questions there in regards to space for the push switch.

 

got my 3820tg i7 620m/5650 today

its the black color skin one palm wrist is titanium grey thank god not brown

i really thought it will be smaller but the screen size and kb is more than enuf for my requirement i might even give some 12.1 culvs a try

ok my thoughts and pros and cons

1. the kb has gaps in all 4 sides so it will filled with crumbs and dust in a week any way to change the kb to full chicklet like z360 or u30jc?? any kb cover you guys recommend?

2.
Both malaysia and sg are hot countries room temps are 30 to 33C and more and even at idle it runs worm warm air comes from the vents and my room has no air con any laptop cooler you guys recommend? zalman 3000? choiix comforter

3. the trackpad buttons are really hard to press.

4. no usb 3 and the speakers are really cheap and bad no woofing effect even mild ones my 2 yr old 7720g has better speakers i think acer gave a 2watt speaker in 3820tg

5. for usb 3 they could have gave an expresscard slot but nothing to install usb 3 even in future.

6. i like the overall build and even the screen but at the hinges and at the battery compartment there are tiny shards of plastic sticking its not laser cut to smoothness any body got this problem?

thats all my complains

now praises

1. my unit comes with 4 ram slots?? i havent opened it but cpuz shows it maybe in future 8gb ram i will install.

2. i need a list of softwares and all bloatwares that comes with 3820tg can you guys tell me i want to double check.

3. intel hd graphics is really improved i was running avatar 1080p mkv 21gb file at 20~22 mbps bit rate cpu usage never went above 17% using windows media player i was wondering why did i get a 5650??!! i havent run any 5650 tests yet.

4. Battery life is verrrryyy good above 6hrs i got with browsing and watching and youtubing from 80% battery but battery takes a long time to charge.

5. also i7 620m never went over 1.33ghz varies between 1.2ghz while watching 1080p vids with 20mbps bitrate i really liking the culv of 1.2ghz

now some queries

1. what wifi chip is 3820tg using intel 6200/6300??

2. what audio chip is there and what drivers will i install?

3. when i ran the intel update manager it couldnt detect any lan/wifi/audio chip what will i do?

4. is there a way to improve the audio quality? vlc cant do it by using a ext usb soundcard will it help?

i am looking to buy a sleeve/kb protector/skin/cooler plz recommend

 

No doubt while you were pushing the keyboard tab back in you pushed on some combination of Fkeys, enough to convince your computer that it was being raped, so it shut down.

You say that it started up again on it`s own and has been fine since,proof that there`s nothing wrong.

Don`t worry be happy.:smile:

 

Holy thats is fast.... I guess its my combo of router and crappy wireless that makes it.

 

Yeah, might be.
The only weird thing was that it was absolutely completely stone dead for 5 minutes. The power button did not respond, the charging light did not come on when i plugged in the power-supply.

 

Congratulations, I'm jeallous because of the 620M You've got there...

Coolers: NZXT Cryo S or CoolerMaster Notepal X2 (I'm using this one, quite good), or Notepal U2 (portable, plus it has adjustable fans, I've ordered it, my country facing supply issuses).
Notepal X2 keeps both cores under 81 C when playing GTA IV with ambient temps at 24C.

Sleeves: Zeroshock III, I believe You also see pics in Hendrickson's first, thread starter post.

I get like 4-5 hours of battery life with the theoratically less hungry 430M, 6 hours seems to be unreachable for me when browsing, maybe with WLAN off and office work it'd be possible.

 

Nonsense!.....

If the ODD is the only thing keeping consumers from buying small laptops,then who`s buying all those netbbooks without ODD?

 

OK. Please give us a feedback on the quality of the one you got after you install it. I will get one in about a month including a keyboard protector. Doesn't need one for the moment because I'm using an LG 32" LCD TV as a monitor.

Thanks.

 

so please answer all my queries in my previous post i really want this to last 2yrs if it suits me i am downgraing from 17 inch to 13.3