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Requirements Checklist for Choosing a Cloud Backup and Recovery Service Provider

Test Results

PCMark Vantage Results

Acer Aspire Timeline 1810TZ
Acer Aspire Timeline 1810TZ

Longer bars are better

PCMark Vantage Battery Life Test Results

Acer Aspire 1810TZ

Battery life in Minutes
Longer bars are better

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What about linux?

I don't suppose you'd care to slap Ubuntu on it (and your other test machines) as a dual-boot and tell us what doesn't work out of the box?

I like the look of this, but if it can't do the linux thing, it's staying on the shelf...

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@Steve Pemberton

A quick look at the spec reveals... 1.4kg / 3lbs.

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Anonymous Coward

first impressions

Just got my 1810TZ . Overall very nice--solid build quality, as suggested by the review. A few things the review didn't note: The USB ports are very tight. The sound has some background hiss, as expected for built-in sound. No hum or other frequencies (a problem I've encountered on other notebooks). There is a recovery partition on the hard disk. I made recovery discs (with an external DVD burner), then wanted to free up the space from the recovery partition, so I repartitioned the disk, and reinstalled from the recovery discs. This worked with no problems, though it did take it 1.5 hours (no human intervention required though).

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