Acer Aspire Timeline Owner's Lounge

[2point0]

The keyboard of the Timeline is a bit too glossy imo. Actually, any gloss on a keyboard is too glossy, dunno why they ruined it by making it a smudge/oil/blarg magnet.

Yea, I hear you on that one. More incentive to keep it clean?

Aside from the gloss on the keys, how do you like the feel of the keyboard lowteckh?

[Tocharius]

The keyboard is really nice. It's quite different from the regular keyboards because the keys are all flat, and it's not really a chiclet style because the keys aren't really seperated like Sony and Apple. SO it's a bit of a change, but I love it now.

I have to say that I'm not a touch typist, at least not using the traditional 10 finger approach. So maybe if you're used to that, it might prove difficult to adapt to the new keyboard because it doesn't give you as much feedback. But you placed your order anyway, so you can see if you like it when you get it...

The gloss on the keyboard is really quite annoying at first, but after using it for a while everything is smugged, so you can't see it as much. Either that, or I just don't care anymore.

And if we're talking about looks, be carefulif you plan to remove the stickers from the notebook. I tried removing the leftover glue with rubber (which worked fine on my 3 previous notebooks) and scratched the surface pretty badly. So I had to replace the Vista/Intel stickers with different, better ones.

[chenavd]

Hi, all
I am glad that I am half 4810TG (SU9400) owner now.
My family went to visit a computer show in Taipei (7/3-7/6) and bought 4810TG
This laptop is for my mom (but I will borrow it from her to play around in August )
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Windows Vista Home Premium
Intel@ Core 2 Duo SU9400 (1.4Ghz)
Mobile Intel® GS45 Express Chipset
802.11 a/b/g/Draft-N
Wireless WiFi Link 5100 Wi-Fi
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4330 512M GDDR3
4GB DDR3 1066
320GB
Card reader: SD/MMC/MS/xD/MS PRO
Web Cam: 100mgega
Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR
ODD
6-Cell battery
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Price: 1153US (tax included) + free gifts (4GB USB drive, keyboard protecter, cleaning kit)

btw, 3810TG (Su3500) just start to be on sale (7/4) in Taiwan
(official price: 921$ US; but people can get cheaper deal in some local stores, like around 796$US (tax included))

The following link is from a person who bought it:
http://lawrence-yeh.blogspot.com/200...3810tg-13.html

Because I don't have 4810TG in my hand, I can not test any tests for you guys. Sorry about this (I will have chance to play it at end of august; then I will borrow it for 4 months~)

[gus6464]

I went to Fry's today and got the 3810TZ with the SU2700. They had a deal where you got a $50 gift with the purchase of any Timeline so I jumped on it. I was going to wait for newegg to get the SU3500 back in stock but I ended up selling my macbook faster than I thought so I couldn't wait for them to get it in stock. So far I am in love with this keyboard. The keyboard was the main reason I didn't want to get rid of my mac but I found the keyboard on Timeline's to be just as good.

I got 2 finger scroll to work by installing the twofingerscroll app from google code and it works like a charm. I also have 2 finger right click enabled and it works perfectly. The touchpad buttons are kind of stiff but with 2 finger right click I don't have to use the buttons at all. I haven't decided If I am going to reformat and put Windows 7 RC on it just yet as most people are losing 2 hours of battery life with it over Vista.

The machine did come with quite a bit of crapware installed but once I uninstalled everything it got quite a bit zippier. So far I have been playing around with it for a couple of hours but I am extremely impressed with this machine especially for the price. Acer definitely has a winner with the new Timelines.

[text217]

I'm still in the process of uninstalling some of the crapware on the Timeline. Can anyone tell me what crapware they uninstalled?

I already uninstalled some things, like Acer Games and Mcaffee, but there's a number of programs by Acer that I don't know whether or not I want to uninstall.

[marstein]

I got my 3810TZ at Fry's too, and had to fight the salesdroids off with their warranty offers. I did not get the $50 gift card! I bought the machine June 30.

There is a lot of crapware installed and the windows patches are far from complete. You have to download literally hundreds of megabytes (SP2).
I uninstalled the backup application and about 20 useless games, and put the latest VGA drivers on along with a newer BIOS. THis cured the 100% interrupt CPU usage problem I was having. Although Intel makes a big percentage of the nervous system of this laptop, they don't seem to be too good at the software driving it.
I also have a problem of the wireless disconnecting when on battery power. I have turned off power management when on battery and hope that helps and doesn't reduce battery life too much.

[BobbyNumber9]

Funny thing I realized the other day, for the free Windows 7 upgrade they're going to send me a copy of Windows 7 on DVD when my computer doesn't have a DVD drive...

[Phil]

Funny thing I realized the other day, for the free Windows 7 upgrade they're going to send me a copy of Windows 7 on DVD when my computer doesn't have a DVD drive...

I read Microsoft may be distributing USB keys, as many notebooks now don't have an optical drive.

[gus6464]

I got my 3810TZ at Fry's too, and had to fight the salesdroids off with their warranty offers. I did not get the $50 gift card! I bought the machine June 30.

There is a lot of crapware installed and the windows patches are far from complete. You have to download literally hundreds of megabytes (SP2).
I uninstalled the backup application and about 20 useless games, and put the latest VGA drivers on along with a newer BIOS. THis cured the 100% interrupt CPU usage problem I was having. Although Intel makes a big percentage of the nervous system of this laptop, they don't seem to be too good at the software driving it.
I also have a problem of the wireless disconnecting when on battery power. I have turned off power management when on battery and hope that helps and doesn't reduce battery life too much.

Yeah I had to fight the salesguy as well with their extended warranties but I found the 3 year one for $139 to not be that bad of a deal. I remember paying $189 for applecare for my macbook which I used a lot in the 3 years I owned it (replaced 2 batteries, cdrw drive, hard drive, logic board when a firmware update screwed it up). I am contemplating to either go for the Fry's 3 year one for $139 or the acer one for $99.

It was funny also how he was trying to sell me a 10 pack of dvdr discs so I could make the restore cds when the machine doesn't come with an optical drive .

[snguyen10]

Hey guys, i'm gonna order one the SU9400 Timeline as soon as i can find one in stock somewhere...

Anyways, i was wondering if the timeline can play the sims 3, even on low settings? Or should i just wait (maybe a long time) for the Ati 3300 version. Can that even run the sims 3? I don't really know much about computer, so sorry for all the questions.

Regardless, i'll still buy one before or during fall semester. Seems like the perfect laptop for college.

Thanks ahead of time!