Laptops for Sale, Cheap Laptops, Discount Laptops, Low Price Laptops. - Acer Aspire Timeline AS3810TZ-4880 13.3-Inch Laptop - 8+ Hour Battery Life: "It is very well built. The lid is razor thin yet well hinged and stable. The overall structure is solid. The keyboard is among the best I have used, with full-size, dedicated, Home, End, and Page Up/Down keys. Putting it side by side with my SONY Z, which costs over $2K and is considered one of the best ultra-portables, the Acer more than holds its own. In fact, I actually prefer some of the designs aspects of the Acer. Performance wise, the Acer is a slower class machine. Compared with my main work computer, a MacBook Pro running under Windows, equipped with a solid-state drive, the speed difference is not that obvious for my everyday tasks, which include Office applications and Web access. Working with my 2+GB Outlook files, navigating through large number of attachments, I didn't feel much speed compromise.
I will not go into all the features, only some things I noticed immediately. You can get phenomenal battery life without much compromise (some laptops require reducing display brightness to barely visible to reach long battery life, not so with this Acer). The computer runs quiet and cool. The wireless performance is stable (I use 802.11n exclusively).
A really pleasant surprise is the computer is equipped with S/PDIF digital output, embedded in the headphone jack. This is the same arrangement with all MacBooks, which in my opinion is one of the most underappreciated features. Plug in a special Toslink cable (very easy to find due to the popularity of Apple), connect the computer to a home theater receiver with digital inputs, you can by-pass the computer's analogue circuit and enjoy the best possible digital sound through the receiver in your ho"
