Acer Aspire TimelineX AS4820T-6447 14-Inch Laptop (Black Brushed Aluminum)

The Acer® TimelineX All Day Computing Notebook delivers an extraordinary blend of EXTREMES: up to 8-hours of battery life, ultra-thin-light mobility and no-compromise performance. Enjoy the freedom to roam anywhere with this stylish notebook featuring a 14” HD LED-backlit display, advanced Intel® Core® i5 Processor, Microsoft® Office Starter 2010, and amazing connectivity and convenience features that keep you connected to your digital world in an easier way without compromise.

Key Features

Intel® Core™ i5-480M Processor 2.66GHz with Turbo Boost Technology up to 2.94GHz (3MB L3 cache)
14” HD Widescreen CineCrystal™ LED-backlit Display
Windows® 7 Home Premium
Microsoft® Office Starter 2010
4GB DDR3 Single-Channel Memory
640GB SATA Hard Drive
Intel® HD Graphics with 128MB of Dedicated System Memory
802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™
Dolby® Home Theater® v3 Audio Enhancement
Multi-in-One Digital Media Card Reader
Built-in 1.3 Megapixel HD Webcam
Two Built-in Acer 3DSonic Stereo Speakers
High Definition Audio Support
4- USB 2.0 Ports
1- HDMI™ Port
Multi-Gesture Touchpad
Acer Easy-launch P Key
Media Control Function Keys
6-cell Li-ion Batteryup to 8-hours battery life
4.65 lbs. | 2.11 kg (system unit only)

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Thin, Light and Packed with Power

The Acer® Aspire TimelineX AS4820T with its 14" LED display is less than one-inch, at its thinnest point, making it easy to carry, maneuver and store while you're on the go yet still features full-size notebook usability with an easy-to-read display, numeric keypad and optical drive. The premium durable design with a black brushed aluminum cover exudes classy digital chic.

Intel® Core i5 Processor with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology delivers smart performance that adapts to your needs, enabling more responsive multitasking and energy efficiency, increased CPU clock speeds, and a stunning visual experience.

Charging up once with a TimelineX Series notebook frees you to work and play from morning till night with up to 8-hours on a single charge!

Massive 640GB Hard Drive has plenty of space to store your digital albums, music library and rich media files and 4GB DDR3 memory lets you access them wherever you go.

Windows® 7 Home Premium makes the things you do every day easier and with Office Starter 2010, experience new ways to deliver your best work!

Stay Entertained Wherever you Are

Stunning 14" widescreen LED-backlit display features 16:9 HD True Cinematic View for enriched multimedia playback. View HD content in full HD and Intel HD graphics bring stunning clarity to your display. Enjoy a perfect view from any angle, this notebook opens up to 165 degrees for easy use anywhere.

Enjoy the most up-to-date communications for ultra-mobility and freedom with 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ Connectivity.

Dolby Home Theater® V3 delivers audio that's true to the original source, so you hear every detail. And with 5.1 channel output you can enjoy intuitive surround sound through any pair of speakers, or set of headphones.

HDMI port delivers crisp high-quality visuals and high-fidelity audio to a external LCD or big screen TV through only a single cable connection.

Unbeatable Extras Provide Ease of Use

Pinch, flick and swirl your fingers on the Multi-Gesture Touchpad for an intuitive navigation of web pages, photos, spreadsheets and more. The touchpad is slightly concave and sits in a silver frame, for easy fingertip feel of the boundaries.

1.3 Megapixel HD Webcam and Microphone deliver smooth video and superior voice quality when face to face in online chats or on conference calls. Snap still pictures and create videos to share.

Stay backed up with peace of mind. Acer Backup Manager Software enables you to backup your valuable data or media portfolio with ease, and protect your assets intelligently and quickly.

Smart controls and intuitive keys like the Easy-launch P Key and Media Controls, let you open often used programs and control your media with a touch.

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium

The Best Entertainment Experience On Your PC

Windows 7 Home Premium makes it easy to create a home network and share all of your favorite photos, videos, and music. You can even watch, pause, and rewind TV or record it to watch whenever and wherever you want. For the best entertainment experience, choose a PC with Windows 7.

Peek behind open windows to get a quick look at your desktop (see larger image).

Windows 7: Your PC Simplified

Simplifies everyday tasks, works the way you want, and makes new things possible.

Improved desktop navigation features like Snap, Peek, and Shake, make it easier to manage all of your open windows.
Creating a home network has never been easier. You can even share files and printers with all the PCs with Windows 7 on the network.
Find virtually anything on your PC--from documents to songs to email--just by typing a word or two with Windows Search.
Designed to make your PC sleep and resume quicker.
Watch, pause, rewind and record TV with Windows Media Center to watch whenever and where ever you want*.

Create, Connect and Share with Windows Live

Windows 7 and Windows Live bring it all together for free. Get the free set of programs that make it simple to create and share amazing photos and movies, organize mail, and stay connected with your closest friends.

Get 25 GB of free online storage with Windows Live SkyDrive.
Sync files on your PCs automatically with Windows Live Mesh.
Share photos during video chats with Windows Live**
Easily edit photos and combine the best parts of multiple photos into one perfect photo with Photo Fuse.

Windows Live is available for free at download.live.com.

Complete your PC Experience with Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft Office Starter 2010 includes reduced functionality versions of Microsoft Word and Excel with advertising. (Note that PowerPoint or Outlook are not included.)
Purchase Office 2010 today and get the most out of your new PC.

* Additional hardware may be required. Not available in all countries. (See windows.microsoft.com/products/windows-7/system-requirements/ for more information.)
** Requires a compatible microphone, speakers or headset, webcam, and broadband connection.

Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
Ultimately, I am disappointed in the purchase of this computer. The electronic hardware is nearly perfect. Adding an SSD made it absolutely sublime. The aesthetics of the machine are clean and attractive. It's thin, it's light, it runs forever on a charge, and it has enough grunt to do everything I've ever thrown at it. On paper, it is the computer I have wanted for years. But there are two fatal flaws. I'll get back to that in a second. First, the model I am using is a 4820T-3697. The specifics are that it came with a Core i5-480M, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB hard drive, DVD-RW optical drive, and an extended battery. I have further upgraded it by replacing the HDD with an SSD (OCZ Agility2). The extended battery has 2 or 3 more cells than the standard and protrudes from the bottom of the chassis. Extending them rearward would have been more desirable but that would not have fit under the screen with the way it opens. With the extended battery and SSD, I am frequently able to achieve 10-12 uptimes unplugged. This was about 15-20% shorter with the standard hard drive, and the extended battery should be holding about 50% more charge than the standard one. This leads me to believe the standard configuration should consistently reach 6-8 hours under light (web browsing) usage. Running moderately intensive usage like watching movies or running flash applications will drain the batteries about 30% faster and extremely CPU-intensive applications will drop this to as little as 2-3 hours with either battery. The screen is very thin, bright, and (to my mostly untrained eyes) very accurate on color reproduction. I have only ever needed to adjust it above the second dimmest setting when using the computer outdoors. The tactility of keyboard is not as bad as many of the reviews led me to believe, and I have no problem touch-typing on it. However, it is difficult to keep clean and this particular one has always had problems with the "t" key not detecting key presses up to 15-20% of the time and the "k" key creating double k's on as many as 3-5% of its key-strikes. Needless to say, I spend a lot of time proofreading and have relegated this machine to entertainment-only duties. This is enough for me to suggest caution in deciding to purchase this machine. The really vexing flaw I have found is in the hinge design. After about 4 weeks of daily usage, the left hinge began to make creaking and snapping sounds. Within another 2 weeks, the right hinge began to follow suit. I thought the screen bezel may simply have been loose as the sounds would stop for a while when I firmly squeezed near the hinges. However, I noticed a crack developing in the bezel. The the designers' credit, the screen assembly was easy to take apart, and did no require me to disassemble the base first. However, what I found in there was disheartening. Each hinge is attached to the 'lid' by means of a small metal and plastic tab glued to the inside of the aluminum back-plate. The contact area of these tabs is less than a square inch each. The natural tendency of opening the lid from its outer edge will place large flatwise tensile stresses that will destroy the adhesive bond within hundreds to thousands of cycles. It is not a question of if it will break but rather when. It is an inherently flawed design. I reattached the tabs using some epoxy. Hopefully they will least longer with my glue than they did with Acer's. I really cannot believe that such a short-sighted design made it into production. For any owners that have already purchased one or prospective owners who think they can live with it, I would advise ALWAYS opening the lid by gripping as close to the hinges as possible. My first round of fixing involved replacing the failed adhesives with with a brand, type, and chemistry that I trust. If this fails, I will have to decide between drilling the aluminum for mechanical fasteners and/or devising a longer contact plate to better transfer the torque when moving the lid. There is one more annoyance that was relatively easy to fix. The Acer-specific version of the Synaptics touch-pad driver is hopelessly outdated and include a bug that causes the edge scrolling feature to not function for approximately 20% of windows sessions. Luckily, with the SSD I added, the reboot to fix this would only take 20 or so seconds. Eventually I found the reference driver on the Synaptics website and in addition to fixing the fail-to-initiate bug, it adds several other handy features that are not included in the Acer version. As for a star score, I'm left with quite a dilemma. On the electronic hardware alone and its usefulness, this should be a 5 star machine. Ultimately, due to broken-out-of-the-box keyboard and horribly misguided hinge design (which, according to some sources online can damage the screen if broken and not addressed), I would recommend against purchasing this model and I can say without a doubt that my next laptop will not be an Acer.