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Who said ultrabooks had to be small? Certainly not Acer with its new 15.6in Aspire Timeline Ultra M3-581TG-72634G52Mnkk - a laptop that promises ultrabook portability and responsiveness with the raw power needed for tasks like intensive gaming. But w...
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Compared to the Samsung Notebook Series 9 and the Dell XPS 14 also reviewed in August 2012, the Acer Aspire Timeline M3 is far from attractive. But it’s worth looking beyond the plain exterior for several reasons. From the optical drive – yes, there’s...
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The Acer Aspire M3 is a slim ultra-portable with a 15.6in screen and a stunning matt black finish. It feels incredibly well built, too. Unusually, the power switch is hidden on the edge of the lower front lip of the laptop, making it a bit of a challen...
With sleek lines, a 15.6in display and a massive battery life, this well-made ultra-portable lets you work all day...
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Remember the Acer Aspire Timeline 581T – or, to give it its full name, the Acer Aspire Timeline U M3 Ultra 581T-32364G34Mnkk? It's a 15in Ultrabook that, at under £500, was one of the cheapest Ultrabooks going. Inevitably then, its specifications were far...
Relatively slim and light gaming machine, Very affordable, Good battery life, USB 3.0...
Horrible connectivity placement, Average screen...
The Acer Aspire Timeline U M3 581TG is something pretty special. Not because it's particularly good-looking, has a great screen or is especially well-connected – it's none of these things. But rather because, if you can live with its awkward rear-only con...
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Ultrabook is the term for the latest generation laptops using efficient Intel processors. Until now only smaller models were available, equipped with an 11.6-inch, 13-inch or 14-inch screens. Now the first larger Ultrabooks are beginning to emerge, such...
The Acer Aspire M3 weighs under 2 kg, has a pretty fast SSD, and thanks to the GeForce GT640M you can definitely play video games in 1366x768 resolution. Moreover, the battery life is very good. The one drawback is perhaps that the processor isn't that...
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Acer Aspire Timeline U M3 Ultra 581T-32364G34Mnkk. That's quite a mouthful – in fact, far too much of a mouthful, really; Philips has nothing on Acer when it comes to overcomplicated model numbers. Unfortunately, we can't just call this laptop the Acer As...
Relatively slim and light, Attractive, reasonably robust chassis, Very affordable, Good battery life, USB 3.0...
Horrible connectivity placement, Average screen, No hybrid SSD/HDD on this model...
This particular 581T-32364G34Mnkk configuration of the Acer Aspire Timeline U M3 makes it one of the cheapest ‘Ultrabooks' available, or from another perspective, one of the lightest and slimmest affordable 15in laptops on the market. If this appeals to y...
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At 15.6 inches, 2.1kg, and with a built-in optical drive, a discrete graphics adapter and a Core i7 CPU, it's hard to consider the Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 an Ultrabook. It feels too big to be in the same class as many of the other Ultrabooks that...
Performance, Battery life, Well built...
Feels too big, Ports located at the rear, Palm rest a little cramped...
The Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 is a very good notebook overall, offering exceptional performance and battery life. It's also well built and stylish. However, we wish it had some ports on the sides and that there was a little more room for the left palm...
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There is a wide variety of very affordable to choose from. The two most important categories are the following: powerful and portable. So it will all be a question of what you want. If portable is the thing you can't live without, then go for it. But this...
Mobile computing discovers in the Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3-581TG a good ally. This laptop is portable, thin and it has a good performance. Its graphics card in particular is great. From rumors, the device will have a price of £600...
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Nvidia has been calling the Acer Timeline U M3 the first true Ultrabook. And the big, green graphics giant has good reason to be backing this svelte-looking machine - at its heart beats the very latest in mobile graphics power, the GeForce GT 640M. This i...
Excellent gaming performance, Battery life, Build quality...
Poor trackpad, Low resolution screen...
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digitalversus.com Updated:
2014-03-28 01:08:12
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With a glossy 1366 x 768 pixel TN display, the M3's screen is far from the best in its category. For example, with its 1600 x 900 pixel screen the UX31E displays more information in a smaller space (13.3"). To make matters worse, the M3's screen has a...
Battery life: 5 hrs 20 min, Processor power, DVD burner (rare in ultrabooks), Good handling of games in the screen's native definition (1366 x 768 pixels), Large touchpad, Keyboard & numeric keypad, Low noise, Good audio, Only 2 cm "thin"...
Ports inconveniently located, Lowcontrast, glossy TN screen, False colour rendering...
Though imperfect (the glossy screen is of mediocre quality and the ports aren't necessarily located in the best place), the Acer M3 has a lot of strengths. It has great battery life, it's powerful, it's less than 2 cm thick, it has good audio and it ev...
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The Acer Timeline M3 laptop is a study in polar opposites. Its thin, elegant chassis and superb performance for its class suggest that the M3 might be a true category leader, but a painfully poor LCD panel prevents the Acer from achieving that goal. At...
The Acer Timeline M3 offers excellent overall performance and an elegant-looking package, but with less than optimal input devices and an eye-gouging LCD panel that left us cold. You can adjust to an odd keyboard feel, and you can tweak trackpad settin...
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Acer’s new Timeline Ultra M3 blazes a path that no others have been willing to take. By incorporating one of NVIDIA’s new GT 640M Kepler-based graphics processors within their design, they have become the first company to include a gaming-grade GPU in...
The Timeline Ultra M3 gave Acer the perfect opportunity to show the world how Ultrabooks should perform but without the GT 640M, it would be an absolute failure. Instead of being the success we had hoped it would be, this notebook feels rushed and inco...
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The term Ultrabook becomes more loosely defined with every release under its name. The latest to bend the ultra slim rules, the Acer Timeline M3 Ultra, despite not being particularly thin has a lot about it worth getting excited about. Inside is one o...
Great graphics and battery, price...
Build, uninspiring design, screen...
Good enough if you want to game, but look elsewhere for a true Ultrabook...
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techradar.com/au/ Updated:
2014-04-13 01:09:43
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Nvidia has been calling the Acer Timeline U M3 the first true Ultrabook. And the big, green graphics giant has good reason to be backing this svelte-looking machine - at its heart beats the very latest in mobile graphics power, the GeForce GT 640M.This is...
Excellent gaming performance, Battery life, Build quality...
Poor trackpad, Low resolution screen...
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chip.com.my Updated:
2016-11-26 02:04:11
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With a 15-inch form factor, the Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 doesn't quite feel like it belongsunder the Ultrabook classification. Acer seems to be pushing past the Ultrabook toe-line for this, and it's more than just the size alone: inside houses the fi...
Excellent graphics performance, Neat, simplistic design, Thin and light (for a 15incher)...
Screen hinge feels wobbly, Display could be better, Trackpad could imp...
You might not think “Ultrabook” with its 15-inch form factor, but Acer has certainly gone for more with the Aspire Timeline M3, particularly with its excellent graphics performance. While it does have a few design niggles, the thin and light chassis plus...
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Acer has always built notebooks that seek to find the sweet spot between quality (of build and components) and affordability. Often, consumers do get a good buy from Acer as their products tend to be value for money and that bodes well for many consumers...
Thin and light, Fantastic battery life, Solid Build, Attractive street price...
Made mostly from plastic, Very low resolution screen...
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maximumpc.com Updated:
2014-03-28 01:08:09
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WHEN LOOKING FOR a tagline that will easily sell a boatload of Acer Timeline M3 notebooks, it doesn’t take much more than: “an ultrabook that will play Battlefield 3 on Ultra setting.” And it’s true, too. The Timeline M3 will indeed play BF3 on Ultra...
Powerful graphics in a thin package; loaded.
Mediocre panel; width pushes the boundaries of ultrabook portability.
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The Acer Timeline M3 is a study in polar opposites. Its thin, elegant chassis and superb performance for its class suggest that the M3 might be a true category leader, but an painfully poor LCD panel prevents the Acer from achieving that goal. At 4.5 p...
Sleek, thin, and elegant looking, Above-average gaming performance, Trackpad is overly sensitive...
Very poor overall display quality...
The Timeline M3 could have been a Macbook killer, if not for the poor LCD panel...
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When Acer's Aspire Timeline Ultra notebooks made their first appearance at CES, these 14- and 15-inch laptops seemed like little more than the successors to Acer's TimelineX series. Thin-and-light laptops, complete with optical drive and some likely reaso...
Thin and lightweightGreat gaming performance Super fast boot times...
Low-rent build materialsShoddy screenLackluster audio capabilities...
The Aspire Timeline Ultra delivers great performance in a svelte package, but a low-res display and cheap build materials keep it from being a lust-worthy laptop...
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Acer has always built notebooks that seek to find the sweet spot between quality (of build and components) and affordability. Often, consumers do get a good buy from Acer as their products tend to be value for money and that bodes well for many consume...
Thin and light, Fantastic battery life, Solid Build, Attractive street price...
Made mostly from plastic...
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Acer offers the M3 in multiple configurations, yet in each case an Intel ULV CPU is present. The Core i3-2367M (1.4 GHz) with a 320 GB HDD, 20 GB SSD cache and integrated graphics make up the entry level configuration for the device. The specs are upgrade...
Very good graphics performance, Fast SSD and thus very good application performance, Good battery life thanks to Optimus...
Poor display, Touchpad without dedicated buttons, Hot under load...
Nvidia wants to put the "Ultra" in Ultrabooks with the GeForce GT 640M - or so the striking PR statement says. Fortunately, The performance fulfills this statement to no end. The graphics performance of the GT 640M is considerable, all the while maintaini...
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The Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 is a unique laptop. It was the first product on the market to contain a GPU based of Nvidia’s new Kepler architecture, beating out not only other laptops but also the desktop video cards. It’s also a rare 15.6” ult...
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The Aspire Ultra M3 may be primarily made of plastic, but it's actually a fairly handsome design. Save the gunmetal-grey keyboard tray and a pair of shiny silver Acer logos, the entire chassis has a sleek, textured matte black finish that feels good in th...
Potent gaming performance, Good battery life, Matte external surfaces, Full-size ports...
Poor ergonomic design, Materials feel cheap, Ugly, low-res screen, Terrible speakers...
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FOLLOW US SHARE Look out, Razer! Acer is literally and figuratively stretching the definition of Ultrabook with the Aspire Timeline Ultra M3. This 15-inch laptop is the largest and heaviest Ultrabook to date, but at 4.5 pounds, it's still one of the li...
Relatively light for 15-inch laptop, Strong graphics scores, Excellent battery life, Good audio quality...
Low screen resolution, All ports on back, No backlit keyboard...
The first Ultrabook with discrete graphics and a 15-inch screen, the Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 will appeal to gamers on the go.
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The cooling fan inside the Ultra M3 stays running most of the time and remains virtually silent during all but the most demanding activities. The fan gets loud enough to disturb other people in a small office or classro...
Unbelievable graphics performance, Thin and light yet well built, Good keyboard and large touchpad...
Bad location for power button, All ports are in back, Nasty hot spot on the bottom...
The Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 is the most impressive ultrabook we've reviewed to date. Despite a few design annoyances, this 15-inch ultrabook delivers an exceptional balance of portability performance and a premium feel. We have a hard time overlooking things like a power button that is easy to press by accident and a complete lack of ports on the sides. Combine those two issues with a nasty...
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Some of our editors recently had the opportunity to take part in NVIDIA's Editor's Day in California's "sunny" San Francisco to be briefed on new products. While we can't go into any great detail on NVIDIA's new Kepler architecture (as that informati...
With the Acer Aspire TimelineU M3, we're really talking about and reviewing two different products: the ultrabook itself and the shiny new NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M. There's a certain poetry to the feeling that these two products are both worthy of the same...
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About two months ago I wrote an less than enthusiastic editorial about ultrabooks that pointed out several weaknesses in the format. One particular weakness in all of the products we’ve seen to date is graphics performance. Ultrabooks so far have l...
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