Acer Aspire TimelineX 4820TG Owners Lounge

[Just_a_Nick]

Can anyone post some pictures and/or a walk through of how they installed a second HDD using the optical bay, specially if they could fit the optical drive faceplate on the fleabay hdd caddy (aka a stock look)
Thanks in advance.


Also has anyone noticed a high pitched/buzzing sound coming from the left of the trackpad? At first I thought it was the HDD, but after swapping it for a OCZ vertex 2 I noticed that the HDD is at the right, and since the SSD is silent, the sound comes from another place. Any clues? It bugs the hell out of me when the rooms is nearly silent. My girl's got a 3820T and hers does the same thing.

Sorry for the long post :P

It's an inductor. A fixing of this problem will void the warranty in every country.

[kefan777]

Can anyone post some pictures and/or a walk through of how they installed a second HDD using the optical bay, specially if they could fit the optical drive faceplate on the fleabay hdd caddy (aka a stock look)
Thanks in advance.


Also has anyone noticed a high pitched/buzzing sound coming from the left of the trackpad? At first I thought it was the HDD, but after swapping it for a OCZ vertex 2 I noticed that the HDD is at the right, and since the SSD is silent, the sound comes from another place. Any clues? It bugs the hell out of me when the rooms is nearly silent. My girl's got a 3820T and hers does the same thing.

Sorry for the long post :P

i swapped the ODD for 2nd HDD in my other laptop / acer travelmate 5720/ it was super easy - removing one screw from laptop bottom that secures the ODD, swapping the bracket from ODD to HDD adapter, putting it in the bay, putting the screw back in and voila. job done.

to the noise - could it just be a fan ? I can't really think of any other thing that makes noise inside the laptop apart from fan and HDD.

[hoog23]

You mean hardware buttons, or windows input? In windows it's in Region and Language menu.

The physical keyboard.

I ordered a US one last night so I should be good to go.

Thanks

[rumpinho]

i swapped the ODD for 2nd HDD in my other laptop / acer travelmate 5720/ it was super easy - removing one screw from laptop bottom that secures the ODD, swapping the bracket from ODD to HDD adapter, putting it in the bay, putting the screw back in and voila. job done.

to the noise - could it just be a fan ? I can't really think of any other thing that makes noise inside the laptop apart from fan and HDD.

The thing that worries me is what to do about the ODD faceplate, since most likely the fleabay caddy wont match the rest of the laptop, so I wouldn't that distinct look. I know for a fact that someone here removed the faceplate, but I can't find the post.

In regards of the sound, someone said it was an inductor, the sound is definitely electrical, not a whirring sound like a fan. Oh well.

[Espada]

The thing that worries me is what to do about the ODD faceplate, since most likely the fleabay caddy wont match the rest of the laptop, so I wouldn't that distinct look. I know for a fact that someone here removed the faceplate, but I can't find the post.

In regards of the sound, someone said it was an inductor, the sound is definitely electrical, not a whirring sound like a fan. Oh well.

Faceplate doesnt fit the fleabay caddy. If i wanted to fit i would have to literally break the tabs off the original faceplate. So it doesn't have the original faceplate. Im thinking about putting back the odd and getting a 128gb ssd. for my games,os and word since it literally takes around 70gb. No need for me to use the odd as hdd since im building an htpc to connect to my tv. And gonna put the 640gb in an external and put vlc portable and all my movies. But now im wondering if i put back the odd would I see less battery?

[afieq]

It supposed to have 8 hours battery life

[aylafan]

That's "idle" battery life; not "normal usage" battery life. It's not realistic.

Surfing the Internet and opening a few documents with lowered screen brightness will be around 5-6 hours.

Watching a movie with lowered screen brightness will be around 2-3 hours.

P.S. I'm talking about the 6-cell Li-ion battery.

[LMBfishingCT]

Waiting for the UPS truck to show up with my 4820tg

[kefan777]

Is there any 4820TG owner that upgraded to 4830TG ?

Just curious...

[aylafan]

Is there any 4820TG owner that upgraded to 4830TG ?

Just curious...

revamperz is the only one I know in this forum that has the 4830TG, but he never had a 4820TG before.

Here are photos and a very short review from him. Acer TimelineX 3830/4830/5830 T/G