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Acer Aspire Timeline 1810TZ - 11.6in Intel CULV Laptop video review

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With more than five hours of battery life, the Acer Aspire Timeline 1810TZ has the stamina to become an all-purpose road warrior laptop. It doesn't have the build to be able to handle the drops and knocks the road may bring, but keep it protected and you can't argue with the value and performance offered by this package. Read full review

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9/10

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By Andy Vandervell
Reviewed 25 November 2009
Updated 26 May 2011

Price as reviewed

£434.22

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  • 25 November 2009
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  • Recommended by TR

Acer Aspire Timeline 1810TZ - 11.6in Intel CULV Laptop details

Battery Life
10/10
Design
8/10
Features
8/10
Performance
9/10
Value
10/10
Overall
9/10

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Great battery life
  • Multiple finishes
  • Great value

Cons

  • Poor viewing angles
  • Shallow keyboard
  • No Bluetooth

Price as reviewed

£434.22

Manufacturer

Acer

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4:59 PM on 25 November, 2009

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Great review, very glad to see a good write up of this interesting product.





Am thinking of buying one of these as a present for the folks this Xmas. However, I've travelled the path to this machine from cheaper netbooks and I can't help but think that I could get TWO Samsung N130s for the same price and still have £15 left over. My main issue is the anaemic Atom processor when watching full screen flash video... Dammit, decisions!

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Andy0d2

5:19 PM on 25 November, 2009

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Check out the acer 1820Pt/Ptz tablet versions of this notebook. I believe it includes blue-tooth in addition to having the tablet functionality.

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6:06 PM on 25 November, 2009

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A generally excellent review, thank you. I do think however that you missed a trick by either comparing, or at least mentioning products like the samsung n510. I can understand why many people might want to create a distinction between the 2 products, calling one a netbook and another an ultraportable (or whatever) but frankly that's just marketing, since both are computers, and have more in common than differences, including price (very nearly).


Other than this omission though, well done.

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Martin Daler

9:32 PM on 25 November, 2009

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The portability and battery life are the making of this machine, coupled with its performance. Finally I can carry a laptop with me which has the gumption to do the job, and I can happily leave the power brick at home. And it didn't break the bank.

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11:44 PM on 25 November, 2009

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not having a ION GPU in there is a missed opportunity in my opinion. I'd be looking to put Ubuntu 9.10 or XP on there but without proper hardware video acceleration in anything but Vista or Windows 7 (as Intel will only provide proper drivers for HDCP compliant OSs) this is worthless to me.


How difficult can it be for one manufacturer to get this right? 11inch screen, 1366*768 screen, bluetooth, 802.11n, CULV, ION, and 6 cell battery. Please have it weight less than 1.5kgs and sell under £400.





All we get are half baked attempts

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Tony Walker

12:30 AM on 26 November, 2009

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I can't believe you criticise the keyboard at all!





This has the best laptop keyboard I've used in a long while. I was so impressed that I nearly walked out of PC World with one of these babes. Yes, PC World. Great for testing lappie KBs. Quite a few of Acer's newest lappies share this new KB including the 751 netbook. All are as good as each other. Don't get swayed by reviewers who overly praise Samsung KBs - they are at best average.





Yes I'm a keyboard fascist (monitors and mice too). For reference, my desktop KB is a classic IBM PS/2 102 key beaut, and the best lappie KB I had was a Dell Inspiron 7000 with a KB at least as good as an IBM Thinkpad.

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4:56 AM on 26 November, 2009

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Are the speakers on this better or worse than those on the Acer Ferrari One or Samsung X120?

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10:00 AM on 26 November, 2009

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Thanks for all the kind comments, it's always nice to be appreciated!





@MSIC: That's a fair point, but I've tried not to overcomplicate matters too much. What I would say is that at current prices, the N510 is overpriced. In fact, one good thing about the CULV segment is it looks as if it'll force netbook prices down to far more realistic levels. Which can only be a good thing.





@Oliver: ION would be nice, but as you say it's less of an issue on Windows as it is for Linux users. Assuming most people will be sticking with Windows (a fair one I think) ION brings far less to the table here than it does with netbooks. It might give some extra gaming performance, but probably not enough to warrant an excitement. Alternatively we might see some interesting stuff coming from AMD in the near future.





@Tony Walker: Well keyboards are a subjective thing, clearly. As you say, though, shallow keys or not it's still a very good keyboard. I certainly wouldn't class it as a deal breaker, otherwise it woulnd't have got an award!





@AnoymousTrain: The two Acer's are about the same, both are better than the X120.

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A balanced and informative review as ever, thanks Andy.





This would be the device to push my 1000HE onto ebay, but for the omission of bluetooth (essential for tethering and calendar sync). The cost saving must be in the pennies and a module would fit into the tiniest space. Why on earth would the manufacturer decide to leave it out?

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Thanks for the review TR - was as expected having had a play around in PCW myself.





Looks like this will be the replacement for my NC10, the 2.5 yrold daughter having moved on to watching Pingu on Youtube ("YouTube" - one of her new words - we're so proud...) the NC10 just can't cut it with flash video...





Would like to see if Asus ever release a comparible UL20A, or Toshiba with it's T115 - but no other manufacturers seem to be competing right now...

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