Acer’s ultra portable TimelineX 3830TG declines of 13.3 inches in a version less than 800 euros in the Intel platform Huron River with a SSD, USB 3.0, Optimus technology coupled with an NVIDIA graphics card and a DirectX 11 novena Core i5 Sandy Bridge. This is the Acer Aspire TimelineX 3830TG-2434G12n offering autonomy announced eight hours and weighs less than 2.0 Kg

Acer Aspire TimelineX 3830TG-2434G12n has tested the following configuration:

However, its performance is far from cheap. Indeed, it is built around 4 GB of RAM and a Core i5-2430M Sandy Bridge that will satisfy a majority of potential users in terms of overall performance. And especially since they are accompanied by a 128 GB SSD to be sure, the storage capacity seem small to some but it is decent for a portable model, especially as we can call if necessary to an external hard drive for data that we do not need to always have with the PC. Above all, the SSD is silent over a mechanical hard drive and swift thereby improving system responsiveness.

The graphic part is it given to both the dedicated card Geforce GT 540M and the graphics Intel GMA 3000 HD integrated into Sandy Bridge. Optimus is the technology onboard that handles the request either automatically as needed. It favors the maximum HD Intel GMA 3000 which is low-energy and thus promotes a good autonomy. The graphic part can play HD video smoothly, but the Geforce GT 540M is much more efficient. So if a game is launched, it will switch to Optimus dedicated GPU which is able to handle many titles as long as one accepts to make some concessions in the most resource-intensive 3D.

This ultra-portable also has a connection very correct, sufficient for many users with wireless modules Bluetooth 3.0 + HS and Wi-Fi, HDMI and VGA video outputs, audio ports, Ethernet and USB 3, one of ‘which is a USB 3.0 to transfer much faster than USB 2.0 devices with USB 3.0.

The screen it is more conventional with its 16:9 formats, resolution of 1366 x 768 glossy and its treatment. This is unfortunate because a slab mate would have been more suited to this type of mobile phone which is intended as it is less prone to glare than glossy and therefore more readable in bright environments.