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Acer Travelmate 8471: A Great Small Business Laptop

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Eric Grevstad
Eric Grevstad
Feb 8, 2010

Another for the small-and-light contender for the mobile small business set, the Acer TravelMate 8471 Timeline looks like the real deal. HardwareCentral.com has the review.




TravelMate is a venerable trademark; it dates back to Texas Instruments’ line of business notebooks, which Acer acquired in 1997. (Pause for the oldest old-timers to wax nostalgic about the TI 99/4.) Timeline is a label Acer started using last year to promote its Aspire consumer notebooks’ battery life. Now comes the TravelMate Timeline: From the name, you’d expect it to be a business laptop with long battery life. You’d be right.

How long? Acer advertises up to eight hours, and we think you’ll get an honest six or seven. Our strenuous test sessions, with plenty of DVD movie-viewing and hard-disk thrashing, ranged from four and a half to five and a half hours. At the opposite extreme, Battery Eater Pro‘s barely-above-idle “reader’s test” ran for nearly ten hours. Considering that the battery pack isn’t bulbous and bulky — the Timeline is just over an inch thick and weighs just 4.4 pounds — we’re impressed.



Read the complete Acer TravelMate 8471 Timeline Review







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