Review: Aspire Timeline 13.3 Laptop

By A Dawn

I bought my new Acer Aspire 13.3 inch laptop about a month ago. This is my second product in the Acer series. My first Acer Netbook is still working fine and never had any problems. Today, I am going to do a short review on the Acer Timeline 13.3 inch Ultra-portable notebook.

Specifications 

- Intel Core i5 – 430M processor 2.26 GHz 3MB L3 cache 
- 500 GB Hard drive 
- 4 GB DDR3 memory 
- 13.3 inch True Cinematic View Acer CineCrystal LED Back-lit 18:9 HD Display 
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 graphics card with 512MB dedicated memory, Up to  
  2138 MB HyperMemory 
- 6-cell Li-ion battery Up to 8 hrs battery life 
- Dolby Home Theater Virtual SurroundSound 
- Ultralight, Ultra-portable

Cons 

- Does not have an optical drive 
- Bilingual keyboard can cause trouble. Sometimes I have difficulty using inverted come 
  and some other characters because I think French characters keep popping up. There
  should be a separate French model. 
- Given the fact that this is a high-performance laptop, its 1.3-MP cam just does not 
  integrate well into it. There is room for improvement in future models.

My Take 

Most likely, you will not find the features and performance that this Acer 13.3 inch Timeline provides at a price like this anywhere else.

The build and materials look excellent, not cheap like Dell or Toshiba. This is an excellent buy and I am happy that I decided to buy this over anything else.

If other manufactures do not come up with great products at cheaper prices like Acer, they will have difficulty competing with Acer in the future.

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Award-winning author A Dawn is a City University of New York Economics graduate. The former Financial Advisor now works as a Data Integrity Analyst for a major Canadian wealth management corporation. He created Canada’s Personal Finance Website to make the world of personal finance easy and accessible for everyone. "
Invest Now" is author’s first book. He makes his home in the world class city of Toronto. You can read more posts at A Dawn Journal.