Acer Aspire Timeline Owner's Lounge

[Tocharius]

Tocharius and any one who installed windows 7:

Did you notice any decrease in battery life compared to vista?
I lost almost 2 1/2 hours from the 8 I used to get before 7

Vista once told me 12 hours with lowest screen brightness and no WiFi. But that number is not realistic.

Maybe battery life decreased a little, but I'm sure you can tweak the settings of Win7 to get the same life as in Vista.

Overall, Win7 is the better OS, so I don't really care. ;-)

[Phil]

Windows 7 may lack proper drivers to put the laptop in the lowest energy settings. This is one of the downsides of running a release candidate.

[dart22]

Windows 7 may lack proper drivers to put the laptop in the lowest energy settings. This is one of the downsides of running a release candidate.

Would you think that it's windows job or acer's to provide the software necessary to take full advantage of the timeline series power management,
meaning will the final 7 solve this or do we have to wait for acer to introduce these drivers?

[BobbyNumber9]

I assume once Microsoft gets all the data from the RC and all the Beta's they'll optimize it a little bit but if you want the full power of the battery that'd have to come from Acer to match their hardware/software with the OS.

[Phil]

Would you think that it's windows job or acer's to provide the software necessary to take full advantage of the timeline series power management,
meaning will the final 7 solve this or do we have to wait for acer to introduce these drivers?

Good question. By the time Windows 7 is ready I would do a fresh install and install some of Acer's drivers and utlities.

But right now, installing Windows 7 RC and installing Acer's Vista drivers/tools may also work.

If it doesn't fully work than there are tools that can be used to manually adjust energy consumption. Like downclock tools. Also, some options can be disabled manually to improve battery life. Like Aero interface or Bluetooth for example.

[dlstyley]

There seems to be conflicting information about which models have bluetooth, which do not. In a post above, it says the 13" does not have bluetooth. Says the same thing on this review:

http://shopper.cnet.com/notebooks/ac...=review#info-1

However on the Acer website, it seems to indicate that the 13" is the ONLY one of the timeline series with Bluetooth. Can someone clarify this for certain? This is important to me.

[Tocharius]

I think there are different models. My 13" does NOT have bluetooth.

[BobbyNumber9]

Well my 3810T shipped yesterday so I should have around Monday-Tuesday. I'll let you know if mine has Bluetooth then.

Also, Tocharius I feel dumb but how did you install 7 without an optical drive? Did you just download an .iso load it and then it worked from there or did you use an external drive?

[Tocharius]

http://kmwoley.com/blog/?p=345

Step 1 was enough for me. Just format the usb drive right, then copy and paste the Win7 files.

Restart, boot from USB, and you're good to go.

[muhammad]

Why Everyone having problem with CPU 100% or is it sorted out the ones using timeline 3810 or 4810???????? so I can buy it now