Acer Laptop Aspire TimelineX AS3820T-6480 Intel Core i3 1st Gen 380M (2.53GHz) 4GB Memory 500GB HDD Intel HD Graphics 13.3" Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Pros: Lightweight Cheap(@$529) Fast Good battery life(on low settings you can get 7+ hours according to W7 on light browsing) Solid built

Cons: The LCD is not the best one available on the market, but it's ok. The same with the keyboard. It doesn't have a cd-rom, but you can use a flash drive for almost everything you need, including a W7 instalation.

Overall Review: I started to like it more and more!

Pros: Construction. Weight. Price. Battery.

Cons: Some unwanted preinstalled programs (nothing that you can't uninstall) and I'm not a big fan of the rocker-type touchpad buttons (get a travel mouse and this problem goes away).

Overall Review: I purchased this as a gift for someone and got permission to clean it up (apps) and install some useful applications. I must say, I'm fairly jealous as this is a phenomal machine in both looks and function. The pictures do not do it justice. Overall, a great little machine with a great battery life (which you could probably extend even further by installing an SSD).

Pros: Build; Much sturdier than I expected! the pictures do not do it justice, and the brushed aluminum finish is a nice addition. All without exceeding 4lbs. Size; have been lugging around a 6.5 lb competitor for awhile, it is amazing what a difference the 2.5 lb loss makes when you have text books and all with you! Specs; while not "top of the line" components, Acer definitely put some great hardware into this semi-budget laptop.

Cons: Not many that I've noticed yet. Sat down for a few minutes to clean unwanted programs before use. No CD drive made loading some university programs trickier, but nothing a thumb drive and ISO program didn't take care of.

Overall Review: Bought this for my wife and fairly jealous right now. Runs smooth, will have to steal it some weekend and test out some more of the performance. UPS decided it would (for the first time ever i might add) drop it on the porch while nobody was home. Ran home to get it and it was nowhere to be found. Thought I just gifted a laptop to neighbor. Luckily the friendly side of the street picked it up for safe keeping and brought it over.

Pros: -Amazing Build Quality -Speed -Price -Great Battery Life

Cons: -Heavier than expected (but do to the build quality) -Can hear the hard drive

Overall Review: For the money this is a great buy. It is the perfect size. Battery life is great, the first day i took it out of the box put the battery in and it lasted me 4 hours. It is a tad bit heavier than what I was expecting but that was because I was used to a cheap dell that used light plastic throughout the laptop. Why are you still reading this... just buy it!

Pros: Light weight, thin, decent performance, good battery life.

Cons: Keyboard starting to fail after 10 months, would lock up before bios update.

Overall Review: I love this laptop, but the failing keyboard is a huge pain. To get anything fixed on this you have to pay shipping to asus and package the laptop yourself. So I suppose Ill end up paying another $40 for a new keyboard to be put in and it will fail in another year and be out of warranty. Atleast it works with a usb keyboard.

Pros: I bought this notebook because it was a good deal at the time. *Small size *Good battery life *Linux reconized some of the function keys *Good performance

Cons: *I prefer a matte screen, but I knew that it was glossy before purchase *Touchpad can be a bit funny sometimes *Speakers are very small

Overall Review: *It doesn't come with an optical drive, but that's why its so small, light, and cheap (when on sale) *I don't know if this is for sure, but I've heard that the warrenty is void if doors to hard drive, memory, etc... are opened.

Pros: Light enough, Fast enough, 500 GB hard drive, i3-380m processor, 4GB DDR3 memory.

Cons: Bad graphics, Bad Sprakers/Audio, Bad built in camera. The graphics, speakers/audio and camera in my old Acer Aspire 6930 was way beter. eght hours battery life is exaggerated

Overall Review: Now taht Acer is getting a name for themselves they are putting cheap junk in their computers.

Pros: Powerful specs for the price. (I paid $529.99 in April 2011) Weight - It's very light. I used to own Sony SZ-750 for 2 years and the weight feels about the same to me. Build quality is much better than the Sony. Battery life is awesome. It advertises as 8 hours but not really. Still it gets you around 6+ hours depending on how you use/utilize it. I got a little less than 6 hours watching shows the whole time.

Cons: No cd/dvd driver? (I knew about this before I purchased so not really a con but something to consider)

Overall Review: Overall, it's a great laptop for the price I paid. I would definately buy this again at this price($530) if I need to.