If you’re looking for the unusual ultrabook, then the Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 will be very appropriate for. Unlike any other portable ultrabooks out there, this 15-inch laptop comes packed with the optical drive along with the distinct graphics to deliver the maximum gaming experience. Therefore, let’s have a look at the following technical specs overview of Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 as your guide before deciding to obtain this gaming-capable laptop.
At the first glance, you will see that the Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 comes with the lid which is made of metal and black colored and somehow it won’t be a good magnet for the fingerprints or smudges. The deck is also painted black but it’s made of the oil-sticky plastic. This laptop measures 14.75 x 10 x 0.78 inches and weighs about 4.5 pounds. Having this dimension and body-weight, the device can be considered as the largest and heaviest ultrabook especially when compared to Samsung’s notebooks.
The keyboard comes with the generous key’s space which may deliver the much faster typing activity. There will be also the numeric keypads which don’t exist on Samsung Series 9 15’s keyboard. Furthermore, the keyboard doesn’t come with the backlit feature whereas it will be very helpful for the low-light usage. Instead of being located in the center, the touch pad is shifted to the left side under the space key. This touch pad measures 4.2 x 3.1 inches and it apparently provides the smooth and accurate multi-touch gestures as owned by the Apple’s MacBook Pro series.
Towards the display specs, Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 comes equipped with the 15.6 inches screen with the maximum screen resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels along with the brightness of only 160 lux. With this specs, users will be given somewhat a bright color when watching HD video and viewing the photo gallery. On the other hand, the device doesn’t actually provide the great viewing angles.
For the performance booster, Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 sports the 1.7 Ghz Intel Core i7-2637M processor combined with the 4GB of RAM and a 256 GB SSD. The RAM is actually upgradable to 6 GB and it has the data transfer rate of up to 164 Mbps which is obviously above the average of others. Regarding the operating system, the device has been pre-loaded with the Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit). To boost the gaming experience, there will be the Nvidia GeForce GT 640M/Intel HD Graphics 3000 which can beat up the AMD Radeon HD 6750M GPU.
In terms of battery power, the company claimed that this laptop has up to 8 hours of battery life. But in fact, this laptop will last for about 6 hours while playing video (continuously), about 5 hours and 25 minute for the normal operation and about 7 hours for web browsing activity through Wi-Fi.
The selling price of Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 is around $1031. The benefits of this laptop are the adequate battery life, decent audio quality, good graphics performance, attractive matte-black design, user-replaceable memory and HDD, fast boot times and of course its inexpensive price. Unfortunately, this ultrabook provides the low screen resolution, poor viewing angles, the ports are all located on the back and there is no backlit feature on its keyboard.[IS]
