maybe minus bluray and 4gb ram then possible...but i still feel unlikely, maybe about 3.3k

walao 

asus hates bluray lah.. i wonder u people send the message to asus FB onot?

well we'll see on n43..

me too, but i dislike the small directional buttons....

whats the rated battery life for 4830tg can we get avg 5 hrs with half display brightness in power saving mode? then i can take this to uni everyday

9 hours i think if you run it on lowest brightness and play no videos

but i will use for browsing webs and most sites have flash and watch youtube vids as well hopefully it will last me  5 hrs

Previously on 4820TG the GPU was ATI 6550 right? How is GT540 compared with that? Better?

Is the keyboard nicer than the previous TImeline X series?
3820 and 4820's?

some people prefer the new chiclet keyboard, mostly because they worry of dust stuck in the old TimelineX floating-island keyboard... i have been using it 5 months, only clean it once... so, no problem for me...

some people prefer the old floating-island keyboard because you can type very fast with it...

for me, i still hate both keyboard because of the small directional keys... may be fine if u dont play game...

I have to remap Street Figthter 4 movement key to avoid the directional key...

(Earth hour is today? Arent we suppose to all unplug?  it's hard for me to survive without my notebook, even just for 1 hour...)

fifa loh use arrow keys..he3..
its ok for tonite earth hour..jus shut the electric..
laptop stil on..use btry.. 

who cares?

this spec seems quite powerful, correct me if i'm wrong. i am planning to replace my aged xps m1330. seems on paper, this acer can run crysis2. how is the quality built? i have develped a trauma towards acer cause in the last 10 years, 3 of my acer laptops could survive a 5 month span. got fed up with acer actually.

Feels solid, especially the main body although the hinges for the screen seem a bit weak almost wobbly - i gave the notebook a shake while open when nobody was looking. I can only hope they're stronger than they look given how thin the lid is.

I've only had experience with a chiclet keyboard on a cheap msi notebook and my G73jh - the latter being quite a bit better - however in reviews some had said that the G73's keyboard has some flex and yet i haven't experienced any so i suppose i'm a light typer. In this regard the acer's keys seemed slightly less "jumpy" compared to the G73 (the responsiveness of the G73's keyboard really makes it a pleasure to type on) but that could just be my imagination or some asus bias forcing that perception in my subconscious. The smaller direction keys dont bother me since i game with the WASD buttons anyway although i had wished they weren't offset

Didn't really get to run anything on it so i cant talk about heat issues etc. It's really compact though so i expect heat to be it's achilles heal. Just as long as the heat doesn't annoy my hands while typing and doesn't affect the battery negatively it should be ok but if it does either of those i will be rather unsatisfied. The built in battery is neither here nor there to me but removable would have been better