Acer Aspire S7 Ultrabooks

[volati1e]

If you click through the photo galleries of the 11 inch machine and the 13 inch machine, you'll notice the 13 inch machine has a sticker or text on the bezel that says Full HD but the 11 inch machine doesn't. I wonder if Engadget got their facts wrong about both machines being full HD.

That 13 incher is a striking machine though. If this was out right now I'd have a hard time deciding between this and the Zenbook Prime.

[urbanglowcam]

The Engadget article also says these are 4 months away from being released =(

That makes sense with it being a Windows 8 device. All indications point to a Win 8 release around October.

[Free_French]

Some more specs or a summary :

Intel 3rd generation Processor ????????
Windows 8 OS
11.6 inch/13.3-inch full HD Touchscreen Display
1920 x 1080 pixels screen resolution
Light-sensing keyboard
Inbuilt Webcam
WiFi
Bluetooth
3G ?????????
USB
HDMI
Acer Twin Air cooling system
Battery backup : up to 12 hours(13.3-inch) , up to 9 hours (11.6-inch)
12.5mm-thick unibody aluminum

Acer Aspire S7 Ultrabook Price in India - Acer Windows 8 Ultrabook | GadgetAnalysis

[Bronsky]

I have my sights on the gigabyte x11. Wonder how much that will cost. I love acer. I'm sad they discontinued their 1830t. Wish it came back. The s7 might be the closest thing but i'll be paying a premium for the tablet feature which I probably won't use.

You should check out the Samsung ... pick of the litter at Computex IMO in the 11.6" range. Samsung Series 5 Hybrid tablet features magnetic keyboard dock - Liliputing The 360 rotation on the S7 would have allowed it to be used as a table-top tablet and double as a decent notebook, in the same vein as the Lenovo Yoga. Acer engineers seem to incorporate new ideas in a half-assed way these days. One simple improvement and they would have had a real winner IMO. Samsung's engineers obviously thought so. Samsung Series 5 Ultra Convertible bends over backward to become a tablet - Liliputing Look out Taiwan, the Koreans are eating your lunch.

[nabwong]

You should check out the Samsung ... pick of the litter at Computex IMO in the 11.6" range. Samsung Series 5 Hybrid tablet features magnetic keyboard dock - Liliputing The 360 rotation on the S7 would have allowed it to be used as a table-top tablet and double as a decent notebook, in the same vein as the Lenovo Yoga. Acer engineers seem to incorporate new ideas in a half-assed way these days. One simple improvement and they would have had a real winner IMO. Samsung's engineers obviously thought so. Samsung Series 5 Ultra Convertible bends over backward to become a tablet - Liliputing Look out Taiwan, the Koreans are eating your lunch.

Interesting. One issue I have with bend-backwards hybrid is the dead weight when you're reading PDFs. The transformer kind is better, however that also presents other challenges like moving the center of gravity down to the hinge. Then you'll have unequal weight distribution in tablet form. There's just a lot of challenges manufacturers are facing right now and what you get are trade offs. It will depend on what you can accept as usable until someone comes up with the perfect solution.

[shogun-r]

This computer seems to have the potential to be a real super computer.

I found this on Acer Aspire S7: The first Windows 8ultrabook with Touch display | New and Best Gadget ""It Is actually confident, nonetheless, that there are a great onboard configurzione Ivy Bridge together with no less than 8 Gigabyte regarding Ram memory DDR3 1600/1333, 128 or perhaps 256 GB SSD and also incorporated graphics chip.""

I'm not English speaking but it sounds like they are quite sure/confident that there is 8 GB RAM and dedicated graphics. I don't know how they can belive that.

What do you think, can it really be true. Sounds to good to be true.

Have one questian. In the video he says that it will be integrated graphic. Do you think that he mean that the battery not can be replaced, or is it propably?

Most beautifull computer I have seen I think

Acer Aspire S7, thin/compact Intel Windows 8 Ultrabook with a touch screen - YouTube

[shogun-r]

Nothing new on the computer? Very curious about the specs. Specially if there is more than 4 GB RAM and if there is dedicated graphics card.

[vacaloca]

I *really* *really* doubt there's any dedicated graphics being that thin, but we shall see in time.

[Bronsky]

Windows 8's official release date is October 26th, I believe. I doubt dedicated graphics as well.

[kanuk]

Some more specs or a summary :

Intel 3rd generation Processor ????????
Windows 8 OS
11.6 inch/13.3-inch full HD Touchscreen Display
1920 x 1080 pixels screen resolution
Light-sensing keyboard
Inbuilt Webcam
WiFi
Bluetooth
3G ?????????
USB
HDMI
Acer Twin Air cooling system
Battery backup : up to 12 hours(13.3-inch) , up to 9 hours (11.6-inch)
12.5mm-thick unibody aluminum

Acer Aspire S7 Ultrabook Price in India - Acer Windows 8 Ultrabook | GadgetAnalysis

Thunderbolt too, apparently, which would be great.