Acer launches new Timeline notebook series

Acer just launched the new Timeline series of notebooks, offering new thin designs with extraordinary battery life times thanks to ultra low-voltage Intel processors. These new computers offer lightweight designs at a very affordable price, with certain configurations starting as low as $598. Acer is bringing the all-day-computing trend to their new full-size notebooks, with up to 10 hours of battery life on configurations on the 13.3” models.

Acer Aspire Timeline AS3810T-6415 Specifications:

• Intel Core 2 Duo processor SU9400 (1.40GHz, 3 MB L2 cache, 800MHz FSB, 10 W)
• Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium 64-bit with Service Pack 1
• 13.3-inch HD Acer CineCrystal™ LED-backlit TFT LCD (resolution 1366 x 768, 16:9 aspect ratio)
• Mobile Intel®GS45 Express Chipset
• Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
• 4 GB of DDR3 1066MHz dual channel memory (runs at 800MHz)
• 500GB(3) SATA hard drive
• Acer Crystal Eye webcam
• Multi-in-1 digital media card reader
• Intel® WiFi Link 5100 802.11a/g/Draft-N wireless LAN WiFi certified
• Bluetooth 2.0
• 3 – USB 2.0 ports
• HDMI port
• Multi-gesture touchpad pointing device supporting circular-motion scrolling, pinch-action zoom, page flip,
• Acer touch-sensitive hotkeys (Touchpad Lock, Backup Manager, PowerSmart)
• Standard 6-cell Li-ion (5600 mAh) Battery
• 3.5 lbs.
• 12.67” (W) x 0.92” to 1.13” (H) x 8.97” (D)
• Energy Star® 5.0 compliant
• MSRP $899.99

Acer Aspire Timeline AS4810T-8480 Specifications:

• Intel Core 2 Solo processor SU3500 (3MB L2 cache, 1.40GHz, 800MHz FSB, 5.50 W)
• Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium 64-bit with Service Pack 1
• 14-inch HD Acer CineCrystal™ LED-backlit TFT LCD (resolution 1366 x 768, 16:9 aspect ratio)
• Mobile Intel® GS45 Express Chipset
• Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
• 4 GB of DDR3 1066MHz dual channel memory (runs at 800MHz)
• 320GB SATA hard drive
• Acer Crystal Eye webcam
• Multi-in-1 digital media card reader
• 8X DVD SuperMulti double layer drive
• Intel® WiFi Link 5100 802.11a/g/Draft-N wireless LAN
• 3 – USB 2.0 ports
• Multi-gesture touchpad pointing device supporting circular-motion scrolling, pinch-action zoom, page flip
• Acer touch-sensitive hotkeys (Touchpad Lock, Backup Manager, PowerSmart)
• Standard 6-cell Li-ion (5600 mAh) Battery
• 4.2 lbs.
• 13.32” (W) x 0.94” to 1.13” (H) x 9.44” (D)
• Energy Star® 5.0 compliant
• MSRP $699.99

Acer Aspire Timeline AS5810TZ-4657 Specifications:

• Intel Pentium processor SU2700 (2MB L2 cache, 1.3 GHz, 800MHz FSB, 10 W)
• Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium 64-bit with Service Pack 1
• 15.6-inch HD Acer CineCrystal™ LED-backlit TFT LCD (resolution 1366 x 768, 16:9 aspect ratio)
• Mobile Intel® GS45 Express Chipset
• Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
• 3GB of DDR3 1066MHz memory (runs at 800MHz)
• 320GB(3) SATA hard drive
• Acer Crystal Eye webcam
• Multi-in-1 digital media card reader
• 8X DVD SuperMulti double layer drive
• Acer InviLink Nplify 802.11b/g/Draft-N wireless LAN
• 4 – USB 2.0 ports
• HDMI port
• Multi-gesture touchpad pointing device supporting circular-motion scrolling, pinch-action zoom, page flip
• Acer touch-sensitive hotkeys (Touchpad Lock, Backup Manager, PowerSmart)
• 6-cell (5600 mAh) Li-ion Battery
• 5.3 lbs.
• 14.88” (W) x 0.97” to 1.16” (H) x 10.19” (D)
• Energy Star® 5.0 compliant
• MSRP $598.00

Stayed tuned for more information on the Timeline-series of notebooks from Acer, and for additional information head over to the Acer Timeline website.

 

Very interesting products. Especially the 13". Laptopmag reviewed it and got 8 hours and 5 minutes of real life battery life.

The 500GB hard drive Acer uses is a Toshiba that is currently the most power efficient traditional hard drive.

 

Interested in seeing how these and the MSI's do in terms of sales. I'm intrigued by these cheap, thin and lights.

 

Mmm...C2D on 13", C2S on 14" and then Pentium on 15"?

 

The 13.3" will be a hit, no doubt. The size and power are fantastic for the price!

I'm not so sure about the 14" and 15.6" versions though....single-core 1.3GHz and 1.4GHz processors? Yes, they're low wattage and can run for hours...but you'll be waiting hours for it to do anything!

 

I expect 13, 14 and 15" will all be available with Core 2 Duo, as is the case in Europe.

 

The thin and sleek part looks very nice but once opened up it looks uninspiring to me.

 

Hm i would have liked to see a 9400m of 3470 option...oh well i guess we'll have to see when an update comes.

 

Ati HD 4330 is announced.

 

i don't care about its performance but 13" looks beautiful..lol

 

All with intel graphics? I'll pass, thanks.

 

4330 ? For which one of these models? Thanks for the heads up

 

All three of them.

ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4330 with switchable graphics technology up to 2304 MB of HyperMemory™ (512MB of dedicated DDR3 VRAM, up to 1792 MB of shared system memory*), supporting Unified Video Decoder (UVD), OpenEXR High Dynamic-Range (HDR) technology, Shader Model 4.1, Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1

Source: http://www.acer.co.uk/acer/product....ct&changedAlts=&CRC=600100215#wrAjaxHistory=0