Acer Timeline X
Intel Core i5 and 8 hours of autonomy
Almost a year after submission of the first products Aspire Timeline Acer renews its offer, with the new Timeline X. With Thin & light products such as the Timeline, the producers were to offer laptops with high autonomy and a acceptable level of performance but unpretentious. In fact, except for some models offered with a ULV processor certain level, the most economically advantageous configurations were often made CPU certainly not top of the range and in some cases single-core architecture.
The first generation of mobile thin & light probably also affected by the success of netbooks, which with their much lower prices than a laptop have deceived many people. At the time the scenario is more clear and no macroscopic overlap between these categories products.
Impressive autonomy
One year in IT is a very large amount of time and in that time frame the news is not missed, also complicit important innovations introduced by Intel with the latest Intel Core. With the first generation of portable CULV autonomy functioning as measured by the benchmark has reached more than 8 hours operation, and the audience is not willing to give up this important feature.
Acer’s own admission the objective of the new timeline is X to offer a high autonomy without imposing limits performance the previous configurations and looking at the summary table following dedicated to a sample supplied to us by Acer you can preview observed components of all respect. For convenience throughout Article Timeline denote by X the model under test, avoiding then repeating the exact model.
Intel Core i5 – 430m processor
This move of Acer could also embarrass his own competition prevented the commercialization of new notebooks for lack of CPU. Moreover , whereas earlier models CULV all producers have expressed an interest in this segment can not say the same regarding the current scenario and this detail deserves to be kept under control.
Under the shell of X’s Timeline are some interesting recent news, the first is the CPU Intel Core i5 – 430m and presented now for several months. This processor is based on dual-core architecture with clock frequency is equal to 2.26 GHz, thanks to Intel’s Turbo Boost technology is expected to go 2.53 GHz Recall that the Turbo Boost mode is activated when the processor is used to partially, leaving some unused core while others are exploited to their full potential by going to increase their clock frequency so they can process instructions faster.
HyperThreading technology
CPU Core i5 is equipped with technology HyperThreading and put at the disposal of the system up to 4 threads process at a time . In this processor are 3MB third level cache and is 32nm manufacturing process.
One of the most interesting features of the Intel Core i5 is integrating a graphics subsystem, although in reality it is not a true integration but rather the location on the same package of CPU and GPU. The integrated video solution belongs to the well known Intel Graphics Media Accelerator HD family and is made of process production at 45 nanometers.
Optimized management of resources
Intel introduces the new notebook , the Intel Core Intel HD graphics with a dynamic frequency management optimized resource the type of load to which the processor before it. The following image shows two situations in which to be particularly under load the CPU ( left), while the right shows the case where the system requires more work to the GPU.
In concluding this brief overview devoted to news introduced by Intel Core i5 and the chipset that is not HM55 here you can enable the discrete GPU instead of the integrated solution in the CPU or vice versa. This option will provide an additional element of control and optimization on energy-saving notebook , enabling more resources hungry energy only in situations that require a level superior performance .
Test and review conclusions
Timeline has always been synonymous with autonomy for Acer and mobility and with the latest version of Timeline X concept seem to confirm that , in fact tests have pointed out over 8 hours autonomy with a particular profile of energy saving optimized using the onboard video. And we are clearly as the hardware configuration of the new Timeline X is higher than previous versions, especially as regards CPU Intel Core i5 – 430m.
Acer has also released the list of new models and the X Timeline configuration we tested has a cost of 899 euros. With identical panel models are also available for 799 Euro with battery 6 cells and 699 Euros with 6-cell battery , and Core i3 330M without discrete graphics . Publish a special section devoted the full range available later , while for now we just describe the outer limits of the price ranging between 699 Euros and the 899 Euro for all models from 13.3 inches to 15.6 inches.
Last year Acer Aspire presented a wide range of models Timeline and the differences were significant both in front of hardware features of both lists , the most careful to remember example, some entry-level features just over 600 Euro equipped with an Intel Core Solo SU3500 while the top range were provided for Intel Core 2 Duo SU9400 . In the present case the available variables are not as high and will be even more interesting to observe in detail how to articulate their Acer offer.
According to some data available online in 2009 only 3.7 % – 6 million – belongs to the category of notebooks sold thin & Light. For 2010 we expect growth in this segment up to 12%, amounting to 24 million units. This value should include professional models in between thin & light row, last year, also presented some Acer models.
Technical specifications for Acer Timeline X
| Model | Acer AS4820TG – 434G64Mn |
| Processor | Intel Core i5 – 430m |
| Memory | 2 x2 GB DDR3 |
| Video Card | ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 |
| Display | 14 inch , 1366×768 pixels |
| Hard Disk | 2.5 ” , 320GB @ 5400rpm |
| I / O interfaces | HDMI 4xUSB 2.0, memory card reader |
| Connectivity | Gigabit LAN , Wi – Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 |
| Weight | 2.1 Kg |
| Price | 899 Euro |
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