Acer is launching its best ultrabook in the market as the competition in the market is really hot and tough and every brand is giving the tough time to other and people are buying thousands of ultrabooks daily and each of the brands are in the war with each other to be at the top. Today we take a look at new ACER’s ultrabook which is Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M5-481TG-6814.Acer Aspire TimelineU M5-481TG-6814 is essentially a smaller version of the Aspire TimelineU M5-581TG-6666. And we're not complaining. Its slate-gray aluminum lid has a modern industrial look and sports a diamond-cut chrome Acer logo in the middle.The anodized aluminum interior is simple and understated. A diamond-cut strip of chrome surrounds the touchpad, and a gray soft-touch material surrounds the display, both nice touches. While we like that the glass panel stretches nearly from edge to edge, there's a pretty thick secondary bezel of sorts around the screen that detracts from an otherwise sleek look.Click to EnlargeAnother point of contention is the company's insistence on placing the power button on the right front lip of the notebook, sending users on a scavenger hunt. We're also not happy with the decision to place all the ports along the rear of the notebook. At least one USB port along one of the sides would have been welcome.Weighing 4.4 pounds, the 13.4 x 9.7 x 0.81-inch Aspire M5-481TG is plenty portable but on the heavier side of the Ultrabook spectrum. The 13.7 x 9.5 x 0.83-inch Dell Inspiron 14z is thicker but a tad lighter at 4.2 pounds. The beauty of the Timeline U M5 will be in the eye of the beholder. If you're a budget laptop shopper, this Acer will probably look surprisingly good to you. If you're looking for a premium product or an ultrabook, it'll look disappointing.Amazingly, the Timeline U M5 manages to fit a tray-loading DVD drive into the left side, a feat that makers of similarly thick ultrabooks like the Sony Vaio T seemingly found impossible or undesirable. Most regular folks would probably prefer to have a DVD drive if price and size weren't an issue. They're not, in this case, so it's a win.Ports on the M5 have been shifted to the back of the laptop, an odd choice in terms of access. For Ethernet and the power-in jack, it's a plus. For USB 3.0 and HDMI, it's a minus.Acer doesn't seem to have re-invented its keyboard design since releasing the TimelineX series last year: the island-style arrangement is similar, as are the keys' shallow pitch. Though we had to get used to the lack of travel, we appreciated the buttons' smooth finish, as well as the sturdy underlying panel -- say what you will about that hollow palm rest, but we didn't notice any flex or give while typing. If anything, we would have expected some slightly larger arrow keys, just because the M5 has a wider footprint than other Ultrabooks and there would appear to be more room to widen those auxiliary keys.The large, Synaptics-powered trackpad responds well to various multi-touch gestures, including two-finger scrolls and pinch-to-zoom. The palm rejection can sometimes be a problem, though, meaning you might accidentally highlight text you weren't trying to select. Also, the built-in touch button is on the stiff side. Between that and the palm rejection, this reviewer got into the habit of using one-finger taps instead of doing the equivalent of a left click.15-inch M5-581TG, all of the M5-481TG's ports are located in the back of the notebook. That could prove pretty annoying for anyone who plans to travel with this system. In addition to a pair of USB 3.0 ports, there's HDMI, Gigabit Ethernet and a Kensington lock slot. A 2-in-1 card reader and a combination microphone/headphone jack sit on the right side of the notebook and a DVD player is on the left.A glossy 1,366x768-pixel-resolution, 14-inch display has average picture quality and poor off-axis viewing angles, but DVDs, Netflix streaming video, and games all look fine on it. Colors are vivid, even if black levels are poor. Normally, I'd look for a higher-resolution screen on a 14-inch laptop. At this price, it's forgivable. (But, on Acer's larger 15.6-inch version of the Timeline U M5, which has the same 1,366x768 resolution, it's not).Stereo speakers, seated below the front edge of the laptop, are shockingly loud. Cranked all the way up, they'll turn heads at an office. On the other hand, they're crass and lack quality sound definition. They will, however, blast audio quite nicely in a busy room.A brief note on preinstalled bloatware: Acer's one of the worst at this, and there were plenty of pop-up antiviral and trial software windows that annoyed me enough to write this paragraph.Like the higher-end S5 Ultrabook we just reviewed, you'll find a good deal of bloatware pre-installed, with third-party programs that include: CyberLink's MediaEspresso decoder, an eBay shortcut, Evernote, the Fooz Kids gaming platform, a trial of McAfee Internet Security Suite, Nook for PC, Norton Online Backup and Skype 5.5. Additionally, Acer bundled a handful of its own apps, including Backup Manager, ePower Management, a gaming hub, Instant Update Service, Theft Shield, Updater and clear.fi, for streaming media over WiFi.The M5 comes with a one-year warranty, which is par for the course among consumer laptops. So Overall Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M5-481TG-6814 is performing well both CPU and GPU are looking a good combination.
So let test them.........
- Excellent Design.
- Solid Performance.
- Great Audio Quality.
- Good Battery Life.
- Backlit Keyboard.
- Nice Features.
- Reasonable Price.
- Noisy Under load.
- Poor WebCam.
- Become Hot Quickly while Gaming.
