Acer Aspire TimelineX 4820TG Owners Lounge

[raviraj]

I've used it loads of times for different machines and inside VM Workstation. Not lost any data yet. But I suppose , as ever, take necessary precautions.
Just shrink your C:\ drive and then expand your other partition. 2 changes to be made. Click apply and Partition Wizard will restart your machine.
Good luck!

I tried it on an 8GB Pen Drive, shrunk it to 7.5 Gb and some how managed to loose the .5 GB space. The Pendrive now shows only 7.5 Gb :P .

Ill have to get through a few more Pen driives before I try it on my Machine :P

[Obskure]

From memory, I thought an 8gb stick only showed up 7.6gb as standard?!

[raviraj]

From memory, I thought an 8gb stick only showed up 7.6gb as standard?!

i lost around 225 Mb... it was 7.8GB or so, now its 7.5* or something.
Actually first I Shrunk it to 7.5 and Applied the changes.
Then the 225 MB which was left appeared as "unknown"
I guess I should have Shrunk and Created the new one and then applied the changes .

[viperjet]

Hi

I just bought an Acer Aspire 4820TG-644G75Mn (i7-640M).

- Can it be upgraded to 8GB ram ? (Acer technicial say got some problems)

- It come with optional 3G, how can i have the 3G function ?

Please advice.. Thanks !

[B!0HaZard]

i lost around 225 Mb... it was 7.8GB or so, now its 7.5* or something.
Actually first I Shrunk it to 7.5 and Applied the changes.
Then the 225 MB which was left appeared as "unknown"
I guess I should have Shrunk and Created the new one and then applied the changes .

Can't you just reformat it?

[skottema]

About to do a clean install of Windows 7...

I am following the steps from this forum but still had a few questions. On Acer's website there is a list of applications specific for the 4820TG. A previous poster mentioned you only need LaunchManager from the list. If I do not install the OpticalDrive PM and the Camera applications will I be losing functionality?

[MalaysianMenace]

I'm also doing a clean install on my 4820TG-3195 with Windows 7 Ultimate ...

I'm trying to get the "Select Configurable Graphics" option on the context menu of the desktop to toggle between Intel and ATI Graphics. Which program do I need to install to enable this?

I'm following the steps outlined as far as graphics installation steps, but don't see this option:

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Question: How do I install the latest ATI Catalyst Mobility drivers on a clean install of Windows 7?

Answer: Follow the steps below:
1. Install Acer's ATI drivers (bundled with Intel drivers) in "Switchable" mode. Restart.
2. Go into BIOS and select "Discrete". Boot into Windows 7 & install the latest ATI Catalyst Mobility drivers. Restart.
3. Go into BIOS and select "Switchable". Boot into Windows 7.

Try ATI 10.7a (Beta) Catalyst drivers if you have problems installing the original version.

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[MalaysianMenace]

Hi guys, just a question : while doing the initial set up, my vendor said that this model does not allow us to freely partition the drives, so I was stuck with a C drive (225 * Gb) and a D drive (225* GB) .
Now I need to install Windows 2003 64 bit server OS in addition to the windows 7 (make my Laptop with dual boot option),
how can I do that without doing a total format and reinstallation? Ive heard of VM ware but im not that good at all this stuff.

Start with Windows 7. Start->Run, type "diskmgmt.msc" You should see only one hard disk, with the two partitions you mentioned. Windows 7 actually allows you to change the size of the primary partition. Right click on the Windows 7 partition and choose "Shrink Volume..." if you want to modify it's size. Presuming you haven't installed Server 2003 on the D drive, you can delete the D drive and create however many volumes you like.

Once you have the partitions the way you like it, go into the BIOS and adjust the boot order. You can install Windows Server 2003 from either the DVD or PXE (network) boot typical of large enterprises. Install Windows Server 2003 to the non Windows 7 partition of your choice, and you'll have the dual boot option when you restart the computer. To choose which OS is chosen by default, right click on My Computer, System Properties, Startup and Recovery and you'll see a dropdown for the relevant Operating Systems.

[MadHouse24]

Back from vacation, nothing more to add to last update really. I have to say this computer really rocks for how much it costs.

I put this thing against a friend who has a MBP 13" when I was in Japan. He had just gotten DIRT 2 and he was very disappointed because it was running like crap (well, relatively speaking) compared to mine. Obviously it can't match the keyboard, the screen and the aluminium unibody construction of MBP but I didn't pay $1,300 either. I got a little flimsier laptop with more power AND a full-on quad core desktop tower for less than how much MBP 15" costs.

yes the keyboard and screen are nice but apple's aren't what they are cracked up to be...I promised my girlfriend's son some time ago that if he got good grades in high school, I would buy him a laptop when it comes time for college, so he ready now and tells me he would like to have a macbook. I figure I'll look at some used ones and fix it up but when I starting looking into used apple macbooks, they have numerous issues such as holes in that great aluminium unibody construction, scratches, dents, dings etc...with many of them telling me this is "no big deal, known issues, perfectly ok" as far as macs go

so i'll take my chances on a pc then with "no big deal, known issues, perfectly ok" thinking when supposedly your product is superior


btw....got him a 4820t and I'm configuring it now....this is a VERY nice laptop

[zerverize]

Hi

I just bought an Acer Aspire 4820TG-644G75Mn (i7-640M).

- Can it be upgraded to 8GB ram ? (Acer technicial say got some problems)

- It come with optional 3G, how can i have the 3G function ?

Please advice.. Thanks !

How is the heat on your stock i7-640M, any throttle at high temps ?
If yours is the 3g version check the sim card slot at the back near the battery bay.