TimelineX 3820TG & 4820TG series notebooks have several specifications. Latest batch of TimelineX 3820TG & 4820TG have latest processor, for example Intel Core i5-460M. The specifications below doesn't mean all of the features will be available. For example, not all notebooks in the series have WWAN card. TimelineX is the best ultraportable computer in it class. In fact, TimelineX excel in both performance & battery life. For me, TimelineX notebook is pure pornography.

Acer Aspire 3820TG Notebook Specifications

• Operating System
  • Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit
  • Genuine Windows® 7 Home Basic 64-bit
• CPU and chipset
  • Intel® Core i7-620M processor (4 MB L3 cache, 2.66 GHz with Turbo Boost up to 3.33 GHz, DDR3 1066 MHz, 35 W), supporting Intel® 64 architecture, Intel® Smart Cache
  • Intel® Core i5-430M/i5-520M/i5-540M processor (3 MB L3 cache, 2.26/2.40/2.53 GHz with Turbo Boost up to 2.53/2.93/3.06 GHz, DDR3 1066 MHz, 35 W), supporting Intel® 64 architecture, Intel® Smart Cache
  • Intel® Core i3-330M/i3-350M processor (3 MB L3 cache, 2.13/2.26 GHz, DDR3 1066 MHz, 35 W), supporting Intel® 64 architecture, Intel® Smart Cache
  • Mobile Intel® HM55 Express Chipset
• System memory
  • Dual-channel DDR3 SDRAM support:
    • Up to 4 GB of DDR3 system memory, upgradable to 8 GB using two soDIMM modules (for 64-bit OS)
• Display
  • 13.3" HD 1366 x 768 pixel resolution, high-brightness (200-nit) Acer CineCrystal™ LED-backlit TFT LCD, supporting simultaneous multi-window viewing via Acer GridVista™
    Mercury free, environment friendly
    Super-slim design
    16:9 aspect ratio
• Graphics
  • ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5650 with Switchable™ Graphics technology, up to 49015 MB of HyperMemory™ (1024 MB of dedicated DDR3 VRAM, up to 30676 MB of shared system memory), supporting Unified Video Decoder (UVD), OpenEXR High Dynamic-Range (HDR) technology, Shader Model 5.0, Microsoft® DirectX® 11, OpenGL® 3.1, OpenCL™ 1.1
  • ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5470 with Switchable™ Graphics technology, up to 35795 MB of HyperMemory™ (512 MB of dedicated DDR3 VRAM, up to 3067C6 MB of shared system memory), supporting Unified Video Decoder (UVD), OpenEXR High Dynamic-Range (HDR) technology, Shader Model 5.0, Microsoft® DirectX® 11, OpenGL® 3.1, OpenCL™ 1.1
    Dual independent display support
    16.7 million colors
    
    External resolution / refresh rates:
    • VGA port up to 2048 x 1536: 85 Hz
    • HDMI™ port up to 1920 x 1080: 60 Hz
    MPEG-2/DVD decoding
    VC-1 and H.264 (AVC) decoding
    Microsoft® DirectX® Video Acceleration (DXVA) application interface (API)
    HDMI™ (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) with HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) support
• Audio
  • Dolby® Home Theater® v3 audio enhancement, featuring Dolby® Digital Live, Dolby® Pro Logic® IIx, Dolby® Headphone, Dolby® Natural Bass, Dolby® Sound Space Expander, Dolby® Inverse Filtering, Dolby® High Frequency Enhancer technologies
    High-definition audio support
    MS-Sound compatible
    Built-in microphone
• Storage
  • Hard disk drive:
    • 160/250/320/500/640 GB or larger
  • Multi-in-1 card reader, supporting:
    • Secure Digital™ (SD)Card, MultiMediaCard (MMC), Memory Stick™ (MS), Memory Stick PRO™ (MS PRO), xD-Picture Card™ (xD)
• Webcam
  • Acer Video Conference, featuring:
    • Acer Crystal Eye webcam with 1280 x 1024 resolution
• Wireless and networking
  • WLAN:
    • Intel® Centrino® Ultimate-N 6300 a/g/n Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ with Acer Nplify™, featuring MIMO technology
    • Acer InviLink™ Nplify™ 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™
    • Acer InviLink™ 802.11b/g Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™
    • Supporting Acer SignalUp™ wireless technology
    WPAN: Bluetooth® 2.1+EDR
    WPAN: Bluetooth® 3.0+HS
    WWAN: UMTS/HSPA at 850/900/1900/2100 MHz and quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE at 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, upgradable to 7.2 Mb/s HSDPA and 5.7 Mb/s HSUPA
    LAN: Gigabit Ethernet, Wake-on-LAN ready
• Privacy control
  • BIOS user, supervisor, HDD passwords
    Kensington lock slot
• Dimensions and weight
  • 12.7 (W) x 9.25 (D) x 0.86/1.14 (H) inches (324 x 235 x 22/28.9 mm) with 6-cell battery pack 3.97 lbs. (1.80 kg) with 6-cell battery pack
  • 12.7 (W) x 9.25 (D) x 0.86/1.88 (H) inches (324 x 235 x 22/47.8 mm) with 9-cell battery pack 4.34 lbs. (1.97 kg) with 9-cell battery pack
• Power adapter and battery
  • ACPI 3.0 CPU power management standard: supports Standby and Hibernation power-saving modes
  • Power adapter
    3-pin 90 W AC adapter:
    • 5.23 (W) x 2.32 (D) x 1.22 (H) inches (133 x 59 x 31 mm)
    • 0.86 lbs. (390 g)13 with 180 cm DC cable
  • Battery
    • 66.6 W 6000 mAh 6-cell Li-ion standard battery pack
    • 99 W 9000 mAh 9-cell Li-ion standard battery pack
  • Battery life: 8 hours14, 15, with 6 cell battery pack; 12 hours14, 15, with 9 cell battery pack
    ENERGY STAR®

Acer Aspire 4820TG Notebook Specifications

• Operating System
  • Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit2 Genuine Windows® 7 Home Basic 64-bit
• CPU and chipset
  • Intel® Core™ i7-620M processor (4 MB L3 cache, 2.66 GHz with Turbo Boost up to 3.33 GHz, DDR3 1066 MHz, 35 W), supporting Intel® 64 architecture, Intel® Smart Cache
  • Intel® Core i5-430M/i5-450M/i5-520M/i5-540M processor (3 MB L3 cache, 2.26/2.40/2.40/2.53 GHz with Turbo Boost up to 2.53/2.66/2.93/3.06 GHz, DDR3 1066 MHz, 35 W), supporting Intel® 64 architecture, Intel® Smart Cache
  • Intel® Core i3-330M/i3-350M/i3-370M processor (3 MB L3 cache, 2.13/2.26/2.40 GHz, DDR3 1066 MHz, 35 W), supporting Intel® 64 architecture, Intel® Smart Cache
  • Mobile Intel® HM55 Express Chipset
• System Memory
  • Dual-channel DDR3 SDRAM support:
    • Up to 4 GB of DDR3 system memory, upgradable to 8 GB using two soDIMM modules
• Display
  • 14" HD 1366 x 768 pixel resolution, high-brightness (200-nit) Acer CineCrystal™ LED-backlit TFT LCD
    Mercury free, environment friendly Super-slim design 16:9 aspect ratio
• Graphics
  • ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5650 with Switchable™ Graphics technology, up to 4091 MB of HyperMemory™ (1024 MB of dedicated DDR3 VRAM, up to 3067 MB of shared system memory), supporting Unified Video Decoder (UVD), OpenEXR High Dynamic-Range (HDR) technology, Shader Model 5.0, Microsoft® DirectX® 11, OpenGL® 3.1, OpenCL™ 1.1
  • ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5470 with Switchable™ Graphics technology, up to 3579 MB of HyperMemory™ (512 MB of dedicated DDR3 VRAM, up to 3067 MB of shared system memory), supporting Unified Video Decoder (UVD), OpenEXR High Dynamic-Range (HDR) technology, Shader Model 5.0, Microsoft® DirectX® 11, OpenGL® 3.1, OpenCL™ 1.1 Intel® HD Graphics with 128 MB of dedicated system memory, supporting Microsoft® DirectX® 10 Dual independent display support
    16.7 million colors
    
    External resolution / refresh rates:
    • VGA port up to 2048 x 1536: 85 Hz
    • HDMI™ port up to 1920 x 1200: 60 Hz
    MPEG-2/DVD decoding WMV9 (VC-1) and H.264 (AVC) decoding Microsoft® DirectX® Video Acceleration (DXVA) application interface (API) HDMI™ (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) with HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) support
• Audio
  • Optimized 3rd Generation Dolby® Home Theater® audio enhancement features, including Dolby® Digital Live, Dolby® Pro Logic® IIx, Dolby® Headphone, Dolby® Natural Bass, Dolby® Sound Space Expander, Dolby® Inverse Filtering, and Dolby® High Frequency Enhancer technologies High-definition audio support
    S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) support for digital speakers MS-Sound compatible
    Built-in microphone
• Storage
  • Hard disk drive
    • 160/250/320/500/640/750 GB or larger hard disk drive
  • Multi-in-1 card reader, supporting:
    • Secure Digital™ (SD) Card, MultiMediaCard (MMC), Memory Stick™ (MS), Memory Stick PRO™ (MS PRO), xD-Picture Card™ (xD)
• Optical media drive
  • 8X DVD-Super Multi double-layer drive:
    • Read: 24X CD-ROM, 24X CD-R, 24X CD-RW, 8X DVD-ROM, 8X DVD-R, 8X DVD+R, 6X DVD-ROM DL, 6X DVD-R DL, 6X DVD+R DL, 6X DVD-RW, 6X DVD+RW, 5X DVD-RAM
    • Write: 24X CD-R, 16X CD-RW, 8X DVD-R, 8X DVD+R, 4X DVD-R DL, 4X DVD+R DL, 6X DVD-RW, 8X DVD+RW, 5X DVD-RAM
• Webcam
  • Acer Video Conference, featuring:
    • Acer Crystal Eye high-definition webcam, 1280 x 1024 resolution
    • Acer Crystal Eye webcam, 640 x 480 resolution
    • Acer Video Conference Manager Software, featuring Video Quality Enhancement (VQE) technology, supoprting 640 x 480 resolution online video calls
• Wireless and networking
  • WLAN:
    • Acer InviLink™ Nplify™ 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™
    • Acer InviLink™ 802.11b/g Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™
    • Supporting Acer SignalUp™ wireless technology
  • WPAN:
    • Bluetooth® 2.1+EDR
    • Bluetooth® 3.0+HS
  • WWAN:
    • UMTS/HSPA at 850/900/1900/2100 MHz and quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE at 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, upgradable to 7.2 Mb/s HSDPA and 5.7 Mb/s HSUPA (for 3G models)
  • LAN: Gigabit Ethernet, Wake-on-LAN ready
• Privacy control
  • BIOS user, supervisor, HDD passwords Kensington lock slot
• Dimensions and weight
  • 13.46 (W) x 9.64 (D) x 0.94/1.13 (H) inches (342 x 245 x 24/28.8 mm) 4.65 lbs. (2.11 kg) with 6-cell battery pack
• Power adapter and battery
  • ACPI 3.0 CPU power management standard: supports Standby and Hibernation power-saving modes
  • 3-pin 90 W AC adapter:
    • 5.23 (W) x 2.32 (D) x 1.22 (H) inches (133 x 59 x 31 mm)
    • 0.86 lbs. (390 g) with 180 cm DC cable
  • 66.6 W 6000 mAh 6-cell Li-ion standard battery pack
    Estimated Battery life: 8.0 hours
  • 99.0 W 9000 mAh 9-cell Li-ion standard battery pack
    Estimated Battery life: 11.5
    ENERGY STAR®

3820TG + ATI Radeon HD 5470G Motherboard


3820TG + ATI Radeon HD 5650/6550 Motherboard


Useful Resources for Advanced Users


CPU Overclock

This is TimelineX 3820TG/4820TG thread, not Dell. TimelineX 3820TG/4820TG have switchable graphic. Please keep on-topic.

Acer Aspire 3820TG & eGPU (Nvidia GTX460): http://forum.notebookreview.com/8246405-post7766.html

You're going to shorten the hardware lifespan if you let it to run very hot all the time. When it reached 100C, that is not good thing. It's time to change the thermal paste & cleanup any accumulated dust that prevent the hot air from escaping. Always do this at least once a year. Like car, computer also need to be service.

Download & run DPC latency check tool. Monitor the tool. If you see a lot of red bar, that is the source of audio stuttering. Usually other hardware drivers cause this problem. So, you need to do process elimination to find out which one causing the problem. Disconnect any attached devices from your computer, for example external disk, 3G modem, flash drive. Run DPC latency check tool. If still see red bar, you can start by disabling wireless. Then run the DPC latency check tool again. If you still see red bar, disabled network card. Then run the DPC latency check tool again. If you still see red bar, disabled bluetooth. Repeat the process until no red bar like this:-

Look like this is not rare issue with TF2. No proper solution I can find. You can try fresh windows installation. You can try uninstall the audio driver & just use default windows driver.

I don't know whether Acer highpoint provide this kind of service or not. You can do it yourself. You should learn doing it yourself.

This post has been edited by kizwan: Mar 26 2012, 12:06 AM

Using compressed air is one of the method to clear dust at fan grills. You also can disassemble your notebook & use little brush to clean the dust on the fan & grills. The latter is preferred because you need to reapply the thermal paste too.

If your warranty still not expired, technically yes, it can void the warranty. However, if there is no warranty sticker on the screws or/and chassis, they won't be able to tell that you already opened your notebook.

Wow! Still alive this thread.

sarf2k4 gpu BIOS is in the notebook BIOS. Try stick with old drivers that worked.

BIOS is pretty impossible to get "busted" by itself. Like I said the gpu BIOS or VBIOS is integrated in the BIOS. You cannot re-flash the gpu BIOS alone. You will need to re-flash the laptop BIOS.

Artifacting usually means the gpu cores too high & voltage too low. However, artifacting also means faulty gpu. Honestly, clocks too low argument is nonsense, sorry.

This post has been edited by kizwan: Sep 8 2015, 07:29 PM

It is a long shot, you can open the laptop, replace the thermal paste on the gpu & thermal pads that already broken. If you're lucky, probably just need to clean any dust accumulated inside it. Or you can send it to laptop repair shop. Maybe cost few hundreds at least for repair.