Acer Aspire TimelineX 5820TG Review + discussion.

[javispedro]

The original Western Digital I had on this laptop broke down (no doubt because of the excessive default agressive parking policy), so I decided to replace it with an SSD.

A warning for those who might be thinking to do the same: there's some kind of rubber under the SATA connector that allows 2.5 HDDs but _prevents_ most 2.5 SSDs from fitting in. I am not sure why exactly that piece of rubber is there for. But it is glued to the chassis. So to remove it you will need to _cut it_.

I also had to fully disassemble the laptop because it was too hard to cut otherwise.

[freecb]

Well I did some cleaning with a dust off can. Sprayed it into places near the heatsink and fan. Also every plastic sprinkle. Removed the battery while playing.

When playing SC2 the cpu temp dropped from a peak of 95c to 88. Gues thats not to bad when playing SC2. Idle cpu temp is 30-35c.

[acerbhattac]

sorry for bringing back this thread from the deadpool. anyone have any thoughts on whether the screen can be upgraded? wondering if i can put in something better than 1366*768 and non-glossy.

thanks!

[downloads]

You can put a non-glossy display but not one that is of higher resollution since this notebook uses a single LVDS line.