Acer Olympic 4810T Laptop Review

Since the arrival of Apple’s Macbook Air there has been a pre-occupation with the thinness of a laptop. Apple seemed to dictate that thin and light generally ensured, but not always, an under-featured and overpriced laptop. However, Acer in their range of Olympic laptops have taken it up a notched offering a 1.95kg, 3cm thick laptop packed with quite simply outstanding features.

The 4810T, unlike its smaller 13.3in sibling, the Acer Aspire 3810, the Acer 4810T features an integrated optical drive, which can be upgraded to a blu-ray compatible drive, yet still maintains a very portable weight of 1.95kg.

Acer 4810T Olympic Edition

The full force of this laptop can only be realised once Windows Vista is removed, sadly it takes up a huge 512MB of the 4GB inserted in this laptop and simply Vista slows the entire thing down, Windows 7 works like a charm. The screen is like most other laptops a high gloss finish. However, this one is ultra-bright with the new LED back lighting ensuring that it will light up in an instant to full brightness without draining the battery life. It boasts a very unusual and uncommon 1366x768 resolution, it might be able to show the Windows 7 boot logo, but it would have made sense to push up the resolution to a more common 1680x1050, or even downgrade it to a 1280x720. The basic Intel 4500MHD is adequate for graphics but will not be able to manage any sort of modern game. The laptop also holds a muti-card reader, three USB ports, a VGA port, microphone jack and headphone jack alongside an integrated High-def Acer Crystal Eye 0.3 megapixel webcam, microphone and 500GB hard disk.

The touchpad is nice and big with a simple touchpad toggling button situated on the top left to the touchpad itself with a light indicator to illustrate whether its on or off. The laptop also includes numerous touch buttons such as the Wi-Fi toggle button, the Acer backup button, the saving button, the speaker button and the DVD drive eject button. Furthermore, it doesn’t seem that design was taken into mind as the battery bumps out of the bottom of the laptop leaving a slight eye-sore for the user.

If you’re looking for power, style and reliable multimedia technology then this is the laptop for you even though in all honest the Olympic Edition just seems to be an Acer Aspire 4810T with an aluminum lid and a brushed finish.