Acer Aspire S7 Ultrabooks

[BigNerd]

Wow... these actually look pretty nice, "full HD" and touchscreens in both 11" and 13" sizes:

Acer announces Aspire S7 Ultrabook series with 11.6- and 13.3-inch touchscreens -- Engadget

[Bronsky]

Wow... these actually look pretty nice, "full HD" and touchscreens in both 11" and 13" sizes:

First decent new design I've seen from Acer in a long time (since the 3820TG). 180 degree rotation? Does that mean that it can fold over on itself? If so, looks like real competition for the Lenovo Yoga. Hopefully, the display is good quality, with high contrast and 350+nits brightness. If Acer can keep the price low, it will probably sell quite a few of these, especially the 11.6" version.

Dual vents - where have we seen that before.

[BigNerd]

They've updated with video and it looks like only the 13" can do the 180 opening (lays flat). I actually like that as the old school laptops used to be able to do that and if it has a touchscreen, that will help.

[volati1e]

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

[Bronsky]

They've updated with video and it looks like only the 13" can do the 180 opening (lays flat)

In that case, nevermind. It needs to rotate through the full 360 like the Yoga to make any sense using it as a tablet. What is up with Acer's engineers?

[DaCM]

Price ranges from $999 to $1799.

[nabwong]

180 degrees is useless. I want to use the tablet for reading. Even if it flips black 360 there'll be dead weight and would be a little heavy to hold in one hand. Love how it look though

[Free_French]

nabwong : do you know the smaller (10 inch) Windows 8 Asus Tablet 600 ? It might interest you.


I am very interested in the 11 inch version of the Acer Aspire S7.

I would be curious about the exact size in mm of this ultrabook compared to a 10 inch netbook (not the thickness, the width and length).

I like small netbooks and if this 11 inch ultrabook fits into the size of my Samsung NF310*, I might buy it.

*
12 x 9.2 x 1.8 inches
304.8 mm x 233.7 mm x 45.72 mm

I am also interested in the weight of this Acer Aspire S7. I might have missed this piece of informations.

[nabwong]

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.

[Free_French]

OK, fair enough.