Gadgetory

I'm Scott Steinem in front of me is the acer timeline um 541 TG now if you're shopping back to school time what are you looking for a very affordable laptop and maybe something that's like an ultrabook the super thin laptops that are popping up everywhere but are pretty expensive well this Acer Aspire is one of the most affordable ultra ebooks for what it packs under the hood that I've ever seen at 779 this 14 inch laptop I kind of call it a laptop more than an ultrabook I'll get to that in a sec Carrie's in it and video graphics a DVD Drive and a 500 gigabyte hard drive a standard hard drive with a little bit of SSD cache to make a run a tiny bit faster so what u.s. makes that different from a regular thin laptop not very much because you ditch the standard SSD you add the optical drive and you add the graphics into this package and it feels like a regular laptop and it's heavier it's about 4.2 pounds but it's thinner than most other laptops so pretty sleek for the price a little bit heavy compared to most ultra books like a MacBook Air and now who is this for well it's for anybody who wants to replace their laptop and get all those features and not have to give up anything because you also have hdmi USB 3.0 SD card slot Ethernet jack so there's no compromises and this even includes a backlit keyboard and Bluetooth so you got the whole kit and kaboodle - maybe blu-ray for under $1,800 and a performance really nicely and it has pretty loud speakers now don't get too excited because the screen is not fantastic the speaker quality maybe is not the best I've ever seen and the design maybe blends into the background or you may think it's surprisingly nice for the price but in this configuration it really can't be beat especially if you're looking for anything that includes graphics like the NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 graphics that are in here which perform about twice the speed of what you would get on Intel integrated graphics so if you're a gamer and you want to play some mainstream games you really can on this now with the 1366 by 768 resolution display I wouldn't call this a gaming laptop because you're not gonna be able to crank up the resolution to anything that you would consider high-end that being said you could always plug in an external monitor and you know what taking that resolution down a notch for this larger size screen actually results in higher frame rates and the games looked really good such as dirt3 which i played on this weight and size expectation in a laptop a primer now what are you expecting exactly when you look at a laptop like this timeline you well if you're comparing it to a MacBook Air you're gonna look at this thing and think hey that looks thick like a large laptop but if you're looking for something that's a full fledged laptop you're probably gonna look at this and say hey that's pretty sleek and cool that's the type of thing I mean about what you categorize this as an ultrabook compared to a laptop maybe I'd call this a thinner top or some sort of an in-betweener sort of like the Sony Vaio s now you know considering all that it packs under the hood I forgive it and I think it's great there are other laptops like the shiba satellite u45 that are about this size that don't pack as much under the hood and it all up and this is a deal that's hard to turn down if you're looking to only spend about 800 bucks and get one of the thinnest laptops out there it feels nice it perform nicely it does have a few annoying pre-installed try aware of programs that pop up in annoy you but what Windows laptop doesn't nowadays and hey Acer nice job the time line um 541 TG is a pretty sleek laptop I'm Scott Stein and that's my look at one of the best budget ultra books I've seen to date the Acer time line um 541 TG