They also provide an excellent battery life, with up to 8 hours on a single charge. This new family offers great Acer notebooks with all you need for travelling and for staying connected all the time. Once Acer notebook that we are going to talk about in particular is Acer Aspire TimelineX AS3820T-5246, having a 13” display.
The good things were mentioned above and one thing that is missing and you might miss it yourself is the optical drive. Even at this size, there are some notebooks that provide an optical drive, but taking in account their thickness we might get passes the drawback. When something great shows up on the market, other important manufacturers try to cope and try themselves to come up with something better or at least the same, making this series of notebooks not that impressive by time.
But this Acer notebook succeeds in the fight with time and competitors. It comes powered by the powerful Intel Core i3 processor and it comes lower than $700. 4GB of RAM are installed; a 320GB hard drive is available, Intel GMA HD graphics and Windows 7 Home Premium as operating system. with these features you will be able to run intensive applications, games, multitasking and whatever you need daily, because the long battery life will help you complete your work in no time.
And because this Acer notebook weights just 3.9 pounds and has a 13.3” display you can carry it anywhere you like, and you will want to do so just to attract some envy from your friends. We have to admit, this is one stylish notebook. It uses two colors, black on the outside and silver on the inside, making it look professional and business-like. Even if it has a small size, the keyboard takes advantage of every inch and fits just right inside. Keys are wide and very nicely spaced, typical for <strong>Acer notebooks</strong>, making typing comfortable and enjoyable. There are no media control keys, just a single shortcut key that can launch any application or function you want. The touch pad is a tad smaller, but if you get the right touch you make scrolling a lot faster. Now for the display, it has a 1366x768 pixels resolution and it is right for web surfing, documents, watching some movies. The screen is pretty bright, clear and all accompanied by the Dolby Home Theater speakers.
To conclude, there are some of the ports provided, including VGA, HDMI, headphone and microphone jacks, three USB ports and networking can be established using the following options: Ethernet, 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Being a travel companion more, this Acer Time line X notebook might benefit from the lack of the optical drive, in some cases you might not even need one and if you would have to choose between one and a slim and stylish profile, I think you would go for the design.