Acer Aspire TimelineX 4820TG Owners Lounge

[nickladroma]

It can handle 8 GB of ram. You can put either speed of ram in. The only thing is that 1333 ram will run at 1066 mhz but with reduced latency. Both ram slots are located under the bottom cover and easily replaced (I just upgraded my 3820tg to 8 GB).

thank you very much for the help.

what speed of ram did you put on yours? 1333 or 1066?
and what brand?
i like to upgrade my ram just like yours too.
mathlab is getting slow for my 2gb ram. =-(

[duffman452001]

thank you very much for the help.

what speed of ram did you put on yours? 1333 or 1066?
and what brand?
i like to upgrade my ram just like yours too.
mathlab is getting slow for my 2gb ram. =-(

Mine has 1600 ram pulled from a Dell m4600, but it only runs at 1066. I would recommend 1333 ram as it really isnt any more expensive and will run at a lower latency.

[windowsmaclinux]

Hi fellow users of this Acer model,

I bought mine about 20 months ago and in the mean time has realized I want a better screen. The built-in LCD display looks too washed out and too low res for what I want to do (photo editing). Does anyone know if people have been successful in replacing the stock LCD with a better panel? Thanks!

[nickladroma]

I've already upgraded my ram. 1333/4g kingston. its faster than before now.
thanks for the help.

i will add another 4gb after a month to make it more faster.

With the LCD
-sorry i have no idea with it. like your idea there.

[inm8#2]

Hi fellow users of this Acer model,

I bought mine about 20 months ago and in the mean time has realized I want a better screen. The built-in LCD display looks too washed out and too low res for what I want to do (photo editing). Does anyone know if people have been successful in replacing the stock LCD with a better panel? Thanks!

Someone tried putting in a 900p screen (the one in my signature), but it didn't work. Some issue with the connection/pins.

[forzaakill]

Someone tried putting in a 900p screen (the one in my signature), but it didn't work. Some issue with the connection/pins.

768p is ok I think but screen quality is quite poor, also viewing bad angles and response time is not well.

Any one tried better screen with same res. ?

[gopackers]

Has anybody found a way to change the fan speed with this laptop? All I want to do is make it running max speed constantly. I don't think I can handle anymore of it's random speed changes. :\

[inm8#2]

4820TG owners, how is your battery life holding up? I still have estimated/calculated lifetimes of around 6-6.5 hours in my BatteryBar widget, but realistically it's a bit less. Still, overall I'm pleased. I make sure to not let the battery sit at the same charge for too long, e.g. letting it drain a little on standby over night, since I'm usually plugged in.

[julesv]

4820TG owners, how is your battery life holding up? I still have estimated/calculated lifetimes of around 6-6.5 hours in my BatteryBar widget, but realistically it's a bit less. Still, overall I'm pleased. I make sure to not let the battery sit at the same charge for too long, e.g. letting it drain a little on standby over night, since I'm usually plugged in.

Mine hasn't changed much. I'm getting about 4 hours now, seems to be up on what it was since i changed over to SSD. Putting SSD in breathed new life into this laptop.

[julesv]

Has anyone found out if it is possible to install windows 8 final release version from MSDN with switchable graphics working?

I have installed it, it detects both cards but only the intel card works. Shame, since I don't game on this laptop anymore I don't need the AMD card for anything over than the HDMI out which I do use and love. Thinking of trying 'dedicated' graphics in the bios, but the significant hit to battery life will be upsetting.

By the way, windows 8 on the 4820 is awesomely fast. I have SSD in it, and it is faster than Windows 7, which was also lightning fast to boot/resume/do standard tasks once I switched over from the magnetic disk.