Buy Acer Aspire Timeline 5810T 15.6 inch Laptop, 9+ Hours Battery (Intel Core 2 Duo ULV SU9400 1.40 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 320 GB HDD, DVDSM, Vista Home Premium)Acer Aspire Timeline 5810T 15.6 inch Laptop, 9+ Hours Battery (Intel Core 2 Duo ULV SU9400 1.40 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 320 GB HDD, DVDSM, Vista Home Premium) Product Description:
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By S. Hemingway
I was looking for a cheap light laptop with long battery life that was a bit better than a netbook with a slow, single-core atom processor. I got one, a retail return, for about £250. I installed Fedora v 13, for which there was ample space on the 250GB hard disk.I agree that Windows 7 is not the most wonderful operating system on the planet, and I have no doubt that Acer technical support is not unrivalled, but, this is a standard PC. Any experienced user will find using and installing software a breeze.The screen is large and a lot better than many. It's not very deep but fine for most applications, certainly for the word processing, web browsing, and spreadsheet editing that is the staple of use of this sort of machine. The viewing angle is fine. A rather pleasing concomitant of the long battery life is that the machine is almost silent in operation, and very cool on the lap. Of course, the battery life is not nearly as long as the manufacturer claims, in real-life use, but I think I have certainly got more than four hours out of it on occasions, which is about an order of magnitude longer than any other laptop I've used. Even after nearly a year the battery is pretty good.This is a fully-functional PC with 4GB of RAM for the price of a chrome book. I was so pleased with mine I came to look at this page on Amazon and was moved to write this review to balance up picture.
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By Mr. P. Kelly
This machine is a mix of the very good, with the very bad.The good is the battery life: stunning. The keyboard: excellent. The size and design: very slim and elegant.The bad is the screen: although sharp, it is overly reflective and has a very poor angle of view with the colour and contrast changing hugely with a slight change of position. The OS: it comes with Vista and a free upgrade to Windows 7. The former is a joke and the latter is truly ridiculous in terms of getting a working installation. Last but not least, the support from Acer: very possibly the worst company on the planet.Unfortunately, trying to get either OS to work properly on any level takes forever and without the slightest help from Acer (whose staff barely understand English either written or spoken) you are likely to be left with a very expensive tray, rather than a usable laptop.My advice is to rope in some help of a computer literate friend, buy a copy of XP at the same time and then do a hard drive format followed by a new installation of XP. This gives you a really good machine, providing you tilt the screen at just the right angle.
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