Acer's branding that there Ultra M3 as an Ultrabook because it's less than 20mm (.8 inches) thin, but given that 15-inch display, numpad, optical drive and graphical horsepower, it's hard to think of this as anything other than a mainstream laptop.
If you accept Acer's marketing scheme, though, this is the first so-called Ultrabook to ship with discrete graphics. As of this writing, at least, we don't have a confirmed price, though Acer has said the pricing for the Ultra series should align with current TimelineX notebooks.
Until we know for sure, it'll be hard to say how sweet of a deal this is, but that doesn't mean we can't talk about what it actually does. How does the performance stack up against regular 'ol 15-inch laptop? Does it pummel your garden-variety Ultrabooks like you'd expect it to?
Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 Specs
General
- Ultraportable
- Windows (7)
Display
- 15.6 inches
- 1366 x 768
- LCD (Active, Color, Backlit, LED)
- No
Processor
- Intel
- Core i7
- 2637M
- 1.7 GHz
Optical media
- Yes
- DVD, CD
- Yes
- DVD, CD
- DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
- CD-R, CD-RW
Networking
- Yes
- 10/100/1000 [Gigabit]
Video
- Integrated
- NVIDIA (GeForce)
- GT640M
- 1 GB
- Dedicated
- HDMI
Other features
- Yes
- Yes
