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Just be patient.
Oodles of Core 2 Duo notebooks will be super cheap now as they close out inventory but all of us want the newer core i3, i5 or i7's depending on what you need.
All the manufacturers are refreshing their inventories. Acer is no exception. As to which I get I do not know. But Acer is being considered depending on price differential and specifications.
Yeah Im in the market for a portable myself. Acer is 13.3" and 3.8 lbs for I presume the 13.3" models. Lenovo is coming in at 12.1" with 3 lbs for an X series. I don't think Acer has anything else coming that is 3lbs do they?
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Acer website is down. Thought they may have added the new models. Alas, they didn't and the website came back up.
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Just a tidbit...
at Digitimes
"Acer on March 23 unveiled TimelineX, an extended series of the existing Timeline ultra-thin notebook. Acer expects its Timeline and TimelineX models together will account for 30-40% of the company's total notebook shipment volume in the future.
The 11.6- and 13.3-inch TimelineX models are produced by Wistron, while the 14- and 15.6-inch models are made by Quanta Computer, according to industry sources in Taiwan.
Acer has unveiled four models in the TimelineX ultra-thin series - the 11.6-inch 1830T, 13.3-inch 3820T, 14-inch 4820T and 15.6-inch 5820T. All the TimelineX ultra-thin notebooks feature Intel's mainstream Core ix series processors." -
A 4820TG full review
Source: hwupgrade.it
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Great find!
Will the 3802T have the same GPU?
That's the one I have my eye on.
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Almost in Italy I'm pretty sure that over 3820TG there will be the Mobility Radeon 5470.
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Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake
Slashgear says they were announced, though the link to Acer's page is down. And OMG the 4820 looks so elegant. Nice upgrade in looks over previous Timeline's.
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If I am looking at this right, is the CPU sitting in a socket and not soldered on there? Could make for some good upgrading opportunities down the road...
Scroll to the middle of the page for the pic
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But I am out if this is true....
HD 5650 comes with SDR Memory....
No GDDR3? Acer cmon!
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Acer's website has been down at various time intervals and has come back up with nothing on its website to show for it.
When it comes out I am sure everyone will chime in on here. Travelmate 8x72 will come out later than the Timeline's like last time I presume. They introduced the Travelmate's way later. -
from the review it looks good so far. is this thing sporting dual hard drives in the high capacuty versions?
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I didn't find mention about heat in this review !!? That's an important concern for me.
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is anybody else not a fan of the unnecessarily large Enter key, and the ridiculously small left Shift key? I'm pretty much accustomed to just using the left shift key....i hate change.
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do you believe that it will soon be available to buy in USA? or when they launch it in the site it will take some time to be avaliable to buy?
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YES, I believe !
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Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake
It is about to go down. More sites reporting Acer US sending out press release:
Tweaktown
I4U
Benchmark Reviews
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were the battery life results with the extended battery?
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there's nothing that change your life more than a new notebook
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Has Acer's site been down all day? So who will carry these first? Amazon? NewEgg? or Tiger. Would like to see it at Tiger cause they seem to have the best Bing cashback deal.
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from the german acer website.
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5650 mit Switchable™ Graphics Technologie, bis zu 4901 MB HyperMemory™ (1024 MB dedizierter DDR3 VRAM, bis zu 3067 MB shared), unterstützt Unified Video Decoder (UVD), OpenEXR High Dynamic-Range (HDR) technology, Shader Model 5.0, Microsoft® DirectX® 11, OpenGL® 3.1, OpenCL™ 1.1(* hängt von der Größe des Arbeitsspeichers ab)
clearly says ddr3 memory, guessing its the ATI hypermemory thats tricking the gpu-z.
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Now that we've seen pictures/videos of all three models... can anyone explain why the 3820 has 2 vents while the bigger models only have one?
In other words, why don't all 3 models have 2 vents?
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) heat sinks, each with its own low-power fan. This has gone a long way to putting my heat concerns at rest. No one who has handled these (still only a few, I know) has said anything about heat.
The 2 vents are for the 2 heat sinks and dedicated fans I would guess. This unit is reported to run 66% below the energystar standard. No small feat in a 13.3" machine.
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Acer has me mad, these need to be announced ASAP. In and out of classes coming back to my dorm hoping for something, and all I see is nothing.
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More and more german shops preparing for TimelineX Series
But still no CPU > Core i5 430M
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Bronsky
@n1c0 - nice find. This one looks like its actually for sale. I clicked on the next couple of screens and it sure looked like you could buy it. Is there a shipping date on the site. I didn't see one.
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899 Euro for 430M? I guess 540+5650 would be ~$1400.not that cheap and internal frame is plastic! I remember they used all metal frame in 3935.
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3935 was not much heavier than current timelineX with internal OOD weighted 4 pounds.
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Just finished reading this entire thread--took me three days in between work and kids--thanks Bronsky for pointing it out to me.
So it sounds like its down to the 3820 or the Sony Z for me...
It's been mentioned a few times in this thread, but I'm surprised that there's not been more clamor about the lack of an ODD in the 3820. Granted, I have no experience with portable ODDs, but to me, this seems like a major minus in the 3820 column--sort of kills some of the portability. Are portables slower than their integrated counterparts, since they're attached via USB?
Sounds like the i5 540m + ATI 5650 is the best configuration on the 3820 given the potential heat concerns. Has anyone seen the option to get the 3820 with 6GB of RAM rather than 4?
And is the ATI 5650 really that far ahead of the Nvidia GT 330M? Especially if you have the 330M paired with the i7 620M that can come in the Sony Z? Don't know a whole lot about GPUs admittedly. But according to www.notebookcheck.net, the two GPUs handle some high-power games like Risen and Crysis fairly similarly (in terms of frames per second) when on high detail settings:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/ATI-Mobility-Radeon-HD-5650.23697.0.html
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Wake me up when the TRavelmate 8x72 comes out and if they have a core i7 640LM or better. If not, then Acer wont get my business and I'll prolly go Lenovo X201s after waiting for a price drop. $1394 is just too pricey right now.
$100 reduction in a month in price, but it ain't dropping any further and supply is very limited and tight right now.
The Official Arrandale Timeline Thread
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