Acer TravelMate 8473TG Series

Graphics Adapter: Intel HD Graphics 3000, NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M
Display: 14.00 inch
Weight: 2.3kg, 2.388kg, 2.4kg
Price: 700, 800, 963, 1100 euro
Average of 4 scores (from 9 reviews)
Acer TravelMate 8473TG-2414G50Mnkk
Specifications

Processor: Intel Core i5 2410M
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 1024 MB
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:9, 1366 x 768 pixels
Weight: 2.388kg
Price: 963 euro
Links: Acer homepage Acer notebook section
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An Alternative? With the new release of the Travelmate TimelineX series, Acer naturally also offers a 14 inch notebook with the latest components, which is compact, but meant to be an equal to its bigger brother. Read on, as we find out if you get a well rounded package for 1000 Euros, that measures up to established B2B notebooks.
Foreign Reviews
Source: Notebookcheck

Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/04/2011
Rating: Total score: 83% performance: 86% display: 70% mobility: 86% workmanship: 88% ergonomy: 84% emissions: 79%
Source: Notebookcheck

Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/04/2011
Rating: Total score: 83% performance: 86% display: 70% mobility: 86% workmanship: 88% ergonomy: 84% emissions: 79%
Source: c't - 18/11

battery runtime good, performance good, display good, noise emission satisfying
Comparison, , Long, Date: 09/01/2011
Source: c't - 18/11

battery runtime good, performance good, display good, noise emission satisfying
Comparison, , Long, Date: 09/01/2011
Source: Notebook.cz

positive: construction, battery runtime, video card, docking station; negative: low battery loading, permanent running fan, USB layout
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/02/2011
Source: Notebook.cz

positive: construction, battery runtime, video card, docking station; negative: low battery loading, permanent running fan, USB layout
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/02/2011
Acer TravelMate 8473TG-2418G12Mnkk
Specifications

Processor: Intel Core i5 2410M
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:9, 1366 x 768 pixels
Weight: 2.4kg
Price: 1100 euro
Links: Acer homepage Acer notebook section
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Foreign Reviews
Source: Notebookjournal

Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/04/2011
Rating: performance: 65% features: 70% display: 30% mobility: 30% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 70%
Acer Travelmate 8473T-2314G50Mnkk
Specifications

Processor: Intel Core i3 2310M
Graphics Adapter: Intel HD Graphics 3000
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:9, 1366 x 768 pixels
Weight: 2.3kg
Price: 700 euro
Links: Acer homepage Acer notebook section
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Foreign Reviews
Source: Notebookjournal

Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/14/2012
Rating: performance: 70% features: 70% display: 30% mobility: 70% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 50%
Acer TravelMate 8473T-6804
Specifications

Processor: Intel Core i5 2450M
Graphics Adapter: Intel HD Graphics 3000
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:9, 1366 x 768 pixels
Weight: 2.3kg
Price: 800 euro
Links: Acer homepage Acer notebook section TravelMate 8473T-6804 (Model)
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Source: Good Gear Guide

The understated style of the TravelMate TM8473T may not be to everyone's taste, but it's a notebook that offers very good value for money. It's well built, performs as expected and it has a good set of features. Most importantly, it's comfortable to use thanks to its soft keyboard and touchpad and a matte screen.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 03/06/2012
Rating: Total score: 80%
Comment
Acer: The company was founded under the name of Multitech in Taiwan in 1976 and renamed to Acer or Acer Group in 1987. The product range includes, for example, laptops, tablets, smartphones, desktops, monitors and televisions. Gateway Inc. and Packard Bell also belong to the Group and sell their own laptops.
While Acer still had the third largest global market share in the notebook segment in 2008, it ranked 6th in 2016 with a market share of 6% after they had continuously lost market shares.
There are dozens of Acer laptop reviews per month, the ratings are average (as of 2016). Gateway, which has an own laptop line-up, has also belonged to the Acer Group since 2007.
Non demanding games should be playable with these graphics cards.
NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M:
Mid-range graphics card based on the GT 435M chip (GF108) with higher clock rates and DDR3 support.
Only some 3D games with very low demands are playable with these cards.
Intel HD Graphics 3000: Integrated graphics card in the Intel Sandy Bridge processors (Core ix-2xxx). The HD 3000 is the faster (internally GT2 called) version with 12 Execution Units (EUs).
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Core i5:
2410M:
Dual-core processor based on the Sandy Bridge architecture with an integrated graphics card and dual-channel DDR3 memory controller. The CPU is clocked at 2.3 GHz (Turbo Boost 2.6-2.9 GHz) and the GPU at 650 (1200 MHz Turbo).
2450M: Dual-core processor based on the Sandy Bridge architecture with an integrated graphics card and dual-channel DDR3 memory controller. The CPU is clocked at 2.5 GHz (Turbo Boost 2.8-3.1 GHz) and the GPU at 650 (1300 MHz Turbo).
Intel Core i3:
2310M:
Dual-core processor based on the Sandy Bridge architecture with an integrated graphics card and dual-channel DDR3 memory controller. The CPU is clocked at 2.1 GHz and features the Turbo Boost 2.0 only for the graphics card (650/1100MHz).
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.3 kg:
Usually, old laptops with 14-16 inch display-diagonal weigh as much.
2.4 kg:
82.25%: This rating should be considered to be average. This is because the proportion of notebooks which have a higher rating is approximately equal to the proportion which have a lower rating.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.