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We have collected 2 reviews of the Acer Aspire Timeline X 5830T. Experts rate Acer Aspire Timeline X 5830T 7/10. Reviewsor.com helps you find reviews, best prices, user reviews of the Acer Aspire Timeline X 5830T and Acer Laptops.
Although billed as a business laptop, Acer's Aspire 5830T also suits as a family laptop, or simply an entertainment machine. One of Intel's latest Sandy Bridge processors runs the show, and is comfortably powerful enough to handle various applications at the same time. We played with complex editing software, surfed the web and enjoyed some 1980s pop music, all at once, with no slowdown. The lack of a dedicated GPU means you won't be able to play the latest games but you can play around with photos and even our home movies using software such as Adobe Photoshop Elements and Corel VideoStudio Pro, while high-definition movies play smoothly and look fantastic. The built-in speakers do a surprisingly decent job, too. The 15.6-inch widescreen display is great for both work and play. It's reasonably bright and pleasingly vibrant, which brings your photos and videos to life. The only downside is the glossy Super-TFT finish, which is highly reflective. Still, if you plan on taking this laptop out and about, you won't have too much trouble packing its slender chassis into a bag. At 2.5kg, it's also light enough to carry around without cracking your spine. We did notice some flex around the edges, but the lid is solid enough to protect the laptop on the move.
The Acer Aspire Timeline X isn't part of the fusty laptop crowd that believes a plain black coat is the height of fashion. Instead, it offers a much more snazzy blue aluminium shell, which apart from looking swanky is very sturdy to boot. Our model -- the 5830T-2316G64Mnbb -- packs a 2.10GHz Intel Core i3-2310M processor with 6GB of RAM.It's available from Saveonlaptops, among other vendors, for £589. The Timeline X is a refreshing change from the yawn-inducingly dull aesthetic of many laptops. Rather than being smeared in yet another shade of black, it's sporting a rather attractive blue shirt. Acer says the colour is 'cobalt'. We don't know what that is and don't have time to Google it, but we like it, whatever it is. Other than the colour, there's very little else to make the Timeline X stand out from the crowd -- the lid is extremely plain, with only the shiny Acer badge sat proudly in the middle. Still, the blue hue is more than enough to stop this dapper chap from being boring. We'd be very happy being seen somewhere fancy with it, perhaps furiously typing away about why plain black laptops should henceforth be met with nothing but contempt. The other feature that makes the Timeline X that bit more special is its size.
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Acer Aspire AS5830TG-2456G50Mtbb 15.6 LED Notebook - Intel Core i5 i5-2450M 2.50 GHz - 1366 x 768 WXGA Display - 6 GB RAM - 500 GB HDD - DVD-Writer - NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M Graphics Card - Bluetooth - Webcam - Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium - 9 Hour Batt | $841.99 | See it |