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Even though this laptop is titled with Aspire, it is actually the Aspire TimelineX series. The Timeline is a business end line with better portability, battery and features. The battery is the biggest deal in this model. It comes with a 9 cell battery that extends out to the bottom of the laptop. While this [...]

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Wow. I never thought we’d be geeking it out with the best of them but if you look closely at this video from G4-TV, you’ll see Acer notebooks and the all-in-one PC showing some wicked gaming action on display at the brick-and-mortar Wired store in New York.

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For those of you with better things to do with your time, I’m going to write a quick report on the Global Press Conference held yesterday in NY. First thing to say is that it was a major event as far as Acer was concerned and it’s interesting to see that the journalists took us [...]

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Remember last year when we hooked up with Pete Bethune and the Earthrace (Ady Gil) boat that was cruelly sunk in the Antarctic?

Well that’s all thanks to Emily Penn who Acer helped out by sponsoring her with a first-edition Acer Aspire Timeline.

Just got this letter (and some photos) from her with a quick update I thought you’d appreciate hearing about. She’s currently in Rio winding down but is expected back in the UK from November to February if any radio broadcasters or journalists want to catch up with her…

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This is a post that could worry the many Acer Guys I’ve had the pleasure of meeting over the past four and a bit years.

Don’t panic. I know what I’m doing… I think.

You may have noticed that I’ve been almost completely absent from the blog for the best part of a year, leaving this site and its free, real time feedback to problems, posts and other general queries about Acer products almost completely in the hands of a few dedicated members to whom I will be eternally grateful. You know who you are!

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All in all I’d say yesterday was a great day.

The project I’m working on is absolutely huge and the “brand guidelines” – meaning naming, brand philosophy, colour choice and icon usage etc., is right at the very start because if you don’t know what you’re building, you’re going to get stuck very quickly.

Fortunately this part went very smoothly and everyone welcomed…

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I find myself sitting in a very quiet, yet highly productive office I cannot name in London. I’m not actually part of anything going on here right now but I’m part of the caravan trailing through this city today meeting a bunch of agencies and suppliers on possibly the most interesting project Acer has ever undertaken.

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Sure Olympic has passed, this was a model purchased after the Olympics was finished, so what? this is just another normal Aspire Timeline 4810T with aluminum lid and a brushed finish.

Exterior:
The screen is a high glossed screen just like any other laptop display, however, it is ultra bright with the new LED back lighting. It is not comparable to how phenomenal the brightness it can produce with my old tank 5920G. With the LED back lighting, it will lit up instant to full brightness with lower power consumption to traditional fluorescent back lighting which was inefficient and gets pretty warm at the location where the lamp is. It boasts 1366×768, which means it can show that pretty Windows 7 boot logo!

On the front, there is the multi-card reader for conveniences, this image also compares the machine to my beefy 5920G. In the center, there is an amber light that indicated the charging status, amber means charging, blue means 100% full.

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Hi everybody and welcome back to another very rare installment from the ever-so-slightly-hectic world of The Acer Guy.

In the four years I’ve been living online I’ve discovered that writing an article here is like preparing for a wedding. You have to know that “she’s the one” and that you want to go though with it of course, yet every now and again, when you’re under the kind of pressure we are day in-day out to satisfy her never-ending needs, you often experience first hand that love has some wonderful ups and colossal downs.

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Here’s a little something from my inbox that might interest you…

Gazaro.com are currently holding a simple promotional contest and the prize is an AOD250 10.1″ Aspire One Netbook Computer!

All you have to to is predict the price Amazon will be selling the netbook on May 10th and the closest entry takes home the prize.

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