Acer Aspire 1410 and 1810T Timeline (single core) 11.6" Thread

[hanybanoub]

Are you guys getting near that 8 hour claimed battery life? - Sorry this is for those with the 1810T. 1410 comments also welcome

[Redline]

I'm hitting 6 hours with ease. Since I'm not using it as my primary laptop, I've gone days without charging it...though, now it's connected to my 1080p LCD as the perfect little HTPC unit, so its on AC fully.

[der_mali]

Is somebody able to confirm that under Windows 7 (with ac adapter plugged in!) setting the cooling profile to "passive" makes the fan running as silent as in battery mode?

This is what AcerTimelineHunter reported, thus it's in Timeline Tweaks now.

Are you guys getting near that 8 hour claimed battery life?

With light usage and low backlight, fan turned off via SmartFan it should be possible to get even more than 8h out of it. It scales extremely well.

Btw, can anyone recommend a good monitoring program for checking momentary power consumption?

[Redline]

Battery Bar is a pretty good one, which I've been using on my primary Asus for quite some time. Haven't put it on the Acer yet.

[TrueEco]

Is somebody able to confirm that under Windows 7 (with ac adapter plugged in!) setting the cooling profile to "passive" makes the fan running as silent as in battery mode?

The fan seems to switch on less often, but it still comes up from time to time. So its no perfekt solution.
Someone else mentioned that already in this thread.

[AcerTimelineHunter]

Interesting thing, the Aspire Timeline 1810T is disappearing from the shops around here. It was only available for like two weeks.
Only to be replaced with the 1810TZ, SU4100 modell with a larger harddrive (320Gigs) as well. Our regional Acer site lists the TZ modell, only! Official markings: AS1810TZ-413G32 N, Part Number LX.PJ30X.015
This might be an indication for things to come in other regions.

[hanybanoub]

Interesting thing, the Aspire Timeline 1810T is disappearing from the shops around here. It was only available for like two weeks.
Only to be replaced with the 1810TZ, SU4100 modell with a larger harddrive (320Gigs) as well. Our regional Acer site lists the TZ modell, only!
This might be an indication for thing to come in other regions.

Wonderful news indeed Thanks AcerTLhunter

Here in the UK the 1810TZ is the only one listed on websites (with an approx 21 Sept release). I don't think I've seen the 1810 anywhere.

[der_mali]

Battery Bar is a pretty good one, which I've been using on my primary Asus for quite some time. Haven't put it on the Acer yet.

Thanks! Works great

[AcerTimelineHunter]

Wonderful news indeed Thanks AcerTLhunter

Here in the UK the 1810TZ is the only one listed on websites (with an approx 21 Sept release). I don't think I've seen the 1810 anywhere.

So, getting it a bit later is not such a bad thing afterall I'll have to ditch mine to get a TZ instead Luckily I got this from my employer

[dirgro]

That is why I asked to confirm the fan behavior under "passive" mode. The person, who claimed that "passive" mode would help, didn't exlain the effect of this mode in detail. And there was another user that said it wouldn't help at all. That is conflicting. So there no precise information...