Acer launches 11.6-inch Aspire Timeline 1825PT netvertible
By Darren Murph 
posted May 20th 2010 1:59AM
posted May 20th 2010 1:59AM
Discover the Unsurpassed Versatility of Acer Aspire Timeline 1825PT
London, 19th May 2010 – A laptop, a photo frame, the perfect presentation tool and a notepad: the Acer Aspire 1825PT is all this and more. A wonder of technology and design, it combines the convenience of touch screen technology with the added bonus of all day computing. All this comes in an ultra-slim and light notebook with a 29 cm (11.6-inch) format that ensures extreme versatility.
With the Aspire 1825PT, Acer takes a step further in narrowing the gap between people and technology. Touch screen capabilities combined with a convertible design: the result is a highly versatile and really easy to use notebook. Multi-touch screen not only can replace the mouse, but it can change our approach to technology as well as our way of working. As touch more closely resembles the way we manipulate objects, using fingers is a far easier and more intuitive way to operate a computer.
Your touch experience with the Aspire 1825PT begins with the Acer TouchPortal, where you can find a full suite of applications for fun and entertainment. Here you can see your pictures or play your music and videos simply by dragging them onto the virtual wall. You can also find a touch optimised web browser and jot down notes with your fingers using TouchMemo.
Take full advantage of touch screen capabilities by folding the display in tablet mode. It makes it easier than ever to share and explore information enabling you to scroll documents, browse web pages and flip through photo albums with your fingers. Plus, the rotatable display can be turned, for a better experience when making presentations or having group-discussions, but also offering more comfortable viewing when playing a video or a slide show.
Small yet powerful, the Aspire 1825PT offers more than 8 hours battery life for total mobility and the latest wireless technology. Built-in WiFi network connection with Acer SignalUp technology allows powerful wireless reception for easy access to available wireless networks, while optional Bluetooth and 3G connectivity guarantee even greater freedom.
Available in three glossy colors- Sapphire Blue, Diamond Black, and Ruby Red – this notebook shows extreme attention to details. The full-size Acer FineTip keyboard with large keys maximizes typing comfort while the multi-gesture touchpad enables easy navigation, allowing you to scroll documents, flip pages, zoom in and out just using your fingers.
Despite its small size, the Aspire 1825PT boasts a high-brightness Acer CineCrystal™ LED backlit panel with 1366x768 HD resolution and a 16:9 aspect ratio for best viewing of high definition content. Optimized second generation Dolby® Sound Room® audio enhancement and an HDMI port complete the offer for a great HD experience even on the go.
Even in an ultra compact size, the new notebook delivers superior performance. The Aspire 1825PT is driven by Intel® Core™2 Duo processors and Mobile Intel® GS45 Express chipset with integrated 3D graphics. As a result the Aspire 1825PT can deliver a richer digital entertainment experience and smooth multitasking, plus with up to 8 GB of DDR3 memory it can easily handle even the most complex tasks.
Available now with an expected RRP of £599.99 Inc Vat (AS1825PTZ) and £699.99 inc Vat (AS1825PT)
8 hours of juice
@Coke
Cant they power it with an ARC reactor instead?
Doesn't sound like a netbook-tablet mashup. The specs tell me its a Tablet PC.
@Luxury Guy
+1
last time I checked, most netbooks did not offer a C2D and 8GB of DDR3. toss in a 64-bit OS and this falls squarely in the convertible camp, not the netvertible camp. If the price comes down a bit, this looks like a nice long-endurance convertible.
@Luxury Guy
It is a tablet... And I almost bought it... But it doesn't have digitizer. And it has a capacitive touchscreen...
I'm desperately waiting for a small affordable (Else I would already have the HP 2740P) PC tablet or slate, with active stylus support.
Unless you HAVE to use windows, I would opt for an iPad, above the 1825PT...
@Nice
Why not the TM2?
@Clyzm
Weight, battery life and screen...
@Nice
a tm2 with discrete graphics can be had for only £100 more so this is fail (the price anyway).
@Luxury Guy And certainly the price of a tablet.
@tobsmonster2
Yup, they had me until the price.
All said and done, I would love this device if it were a slate. Or if I didn't already have a better laptop, and was looking for a computer to take notes on in school. Hello OneNote.
@Luxury Guy
Dear Acer;
You have mistakenly included a keyboard on your slate. I would prefer to buy said keyboard as an accessory. I have removed the offending keyboard with an axe and will return it. Please sell this keyboard back to me for $69 if you wish to retain me as a customer.
Sincerely,
Luxury Guy
@Bruce Banner
Hahaha, classic. I wish I could.
Proud owner of 1420P... Not the best performer in speed but the long battery life, quiet fan and spacious keyboard makes it one of the best investments i've ever made for my work as a locum.
This has almost the same specs as my Aspire 3810T and it gets about 7 hours or so of battery life.
Add an 'always on' or a quick boot OS, then I'm sold.
@pyehac Suspend or hibernate offers what you seek within Win7.
How the f*ck is this thing considered a "NETvertible" with 8 frikkin gigs of ram and a Core2 Duo processor?
oh... and netbooks don't exceed $1k when maxed with memory. that should be the giveaway even if you know nothing about hardware
Sony Vaio X, P and couple of other Japanese and Korean tablet netbooks can go over $1000.
@Patlex
I stand corrected! count me as one who finds it absurd that anything portable counts as a netbook though... the whole idea behind a netbook was small and affordable for lightweight computing (i.e. web-surfing... thus the 'net' in netbook). Without that discriminator, there is no difference between a netbook and an ultraportable notebook (a class that long predates the atom processor... aka I used to own a libretto). This device is not a netbook (notwithstanding my erroneous claim that what people are selling as netbooks can't get that expensive!).
Throw in the option to use a stylus, and just a tiny bit more graphical oomph (I need to be able to play back Blu-ray encoded video when I teach) and I'd be all over this. So close, and yet so far...
@RikF
4500MHD "should" have no problem with Blu-Ray encoding. I have the 1410 SU2300 w/ 2GB RAM and 4500MHD and it handle everything thrown at at including 1080p Flash.
For the price they should have given us an under-volted i3 350.
Wow, that's almost in time for christmas 2009! Almost.
Back then (when it was called 1820ptz) there was no iPad, or i3 CULVs and 8hrs of battery life was pretty damn good. A little too little a little too late Acer.
@kallekenkel 8 hours battery life for a proper laptop still sounds pretty good now.
Dear Engadget:
Should I get this or Eee PC 1215N?
Halp?
@macboy988
Stupid Troll is stupid
I love my 1820ptz!! I bought it in Malaysia about 4 weeks ago whilst on holiday for roughly us$740 with 4gb of ram. I was considering getting an iPad but this is the perfect compromise, capacitive screen is delicious to use, it's only the Windows 7 interface which lets it down, would be great if Windows would adjust menu item and min/max/close button size to be more touch friendly. Great for web browsing on the couch and the screen dims down low enough for ebook reading in bed. The fan or harddrive whirl is noticable but not anoying though and doesn't get too hot.
Heaps of processing power compared to the wheezy atom 1.6 and stellar all day battery life. Wifi starts up almost instantly from standby/hibernate too.
I previously had a MSI Wind U100 which I was finding a bit under powered and short on battery life. No regrets at all spending the extra $$ and would recomend the non tablet version over an Atom based netbook anyday but there is no going back from a tablet pc now.
@mingonn
Adjust the Display DPI to 125%.... much easier to click on buttons then. I'm often shocked that NONE of the tech pages offer this advice?
@mingonn I'd suggest replacing the HDD with an SSD. I did the swap on my Acer 1410 and it made it near silent and helped reduce the amount of heat produced. The increased SSD speed also means you can just close the lid to hibernate and when you open the lid to use it, it's like having an "instant on" button.
@Excalibur
I tried 125% but loose too much screen realestate for my liking, I eventually settled on a custom 115% setting. Fingers crossed for a Windows 7 touch specific UI setting for tablet/slate PCs
@zeroprime
What model/capacity SSD did you end up getting? I have one in my desktop and can't wait to see the Aspire performs with a SSD.
Who would pay that much for an acer when an HP is the same price.... stupid acer
@RoneT The HP is dearer than this one if you compare the uk prices for both and the obvious advantage this one has is the weight of the device, the 2.2kg of the hp makes that one far less comfortable to hold as a tablet than this one.
I finally managed to order one of the PTZ models in the UK (Pentium SU4100), and it arrived yesterday. I haven't spent more than an hour or two with it, but here's some initial impressions :
-Build quality is a little on the "plastic-ey" side of things, and it feels slightly on the heavy side, especially so when folded up into the tablet configuration.
-In terms of speed, it's no slouch, and is entirely usable - so far, all I've done is download and install Skype, Chrome, AVG antivirus, and install the MS Office Pro Plus suite, and it's handled it all just fine. Installing that from a flash drive took under 10 minutes. Boot time is about 1 minute, and apps load in what feels like the "usual" time - generally, it doesn't "feel" slow.
-The speakers are a little anaemic, but it is a very small machine and there's a headphone socket on it anyway.
-The touchscreen is fine, but I'm still getting used to it. It's very usable for dragging and dropping, but a stylus would be helpful for things like e.g. small clickable links in GMail and so on.
@ChrisG
Where did you buy from in the UK?
@SiFTW
www.saveonlaptops.co.uk, for £599. They only deliver within the mainland UK, but their basica delivery option is next-day. Other retailers now have them in stock too - Froogle.co.uk can help you find them.
@macboy988 Are you 15?
Does anyone know if it is possible to user an active digitizer with this tablet? I would like to do writing on it but if I cannot use an active digitiser then it will get confused whenever I rest my palm on the screen and take that as a touch,
No active digitizer=failure
what do you do with 8 gigs of RAM with a 1.3 ghz processor and integrated graphics? run XP from a ram drive?
The press release and website says 3G option available but I can't find it anywhere. This would be a deal maker for me.
I know this already but where is the 1420p Acer? come on bring it out in Australia too!
If the TouchSmart TM2's are now coming with Core i3/i5's, why is this coming out with Core 2 Duo?
@NXTwoThou
This is not news. This acer has been announced last year already. Not sure why it makes the news just now...
@Garmac
The 1825 is a refresh of the 1820 series. The 1420 and 1820(s) were initially news in October last year, but they were never available in great quantities nor very widely, and were eventually discontinued. The 1825PTZ only became available in Germany in about April, and outside Germany in the UK in May.
So it is kinda news - you couldn't buy one of these until the last month or so, and even then, only with a German keyboard layout.
I've been keen to get this because it's supposed to have pen input- if you look on the acer UK website, the tech specs say "supporting finger touch and pen input" The initial promotional pictures seem to support this, with the pen tucked into the right hand side of the screen.
However, the pictures published yesterday seem to suggest otherwise. Also, users from Germany who have purchased the PTZ model say it doesn't come with a pen- perhaps the PT model will, although I suspect they dropped the pen altogether (which is a dealbreaker for me)
@mswlim
I can confirm the PTZ doesn't have a stylus included - but why not just buy one anyway ? Styli for capacitive and resistive screens alike are available.
@ChrisG
When I write, I typically rest my hand on the writing surface, so the screen wouldn't be able to differentiate between skin and pen leading to unpredictable results.
Unless the screen can detect a stylus with a different capacitance to human skin, this won't work too well.