Acer Aspire S7 Review: A Classy, Touchable Ultrabook

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[Guest]

There's only one problem with it, it's running windows 8....

 

[Xclusiveitalian]

Ultrabook = UltraExpensive for $1400 the monster PC you'd build would create these lil things for you.

 

[St1ckM4n]

There's only one problem with it, it's running windows 8....

Oh good one guest! Because Win7 touch support is so great!

 

[TomSEA]

Just too dang expensive. I can buy an i7 laptop with a 15.6" screen, 6GB RAM, 750GB HD, yadda, yadda, yadda for $700.

 

[Guest]

Wow they are very Apple like, first response to the Retina MBP.

 

[AnilD]

TomSEA Depends on the user. I don't need a 15" desktop replacement (no SSD??) but a 13-incher that is lightweight and well built. The touch panel is a bonus and because it's IPS the screen quality/color reproduction must be good. It's a shame about the trackpad though, a deal breaker.

 

[Guest]

The problem with this is Windows8. It could work on a tablet (not a fan of tiles, tough).
Reaching over to a touchscreen is akward and uneasy. It's only there because Microsoft pushes the crappy Metro interface to leverage a common user interface to enter the tablet space. However, productivity task will continue using trackpads and mouse.

 

[Guest]

I do like this ultrabook, but I doubt the screen quality even this ultrabook use IPS.. I mean Acer is well-known for their not-too-good-screen-quality. I hope the screen quality isn't that disappointing..

 

[inventix1136]

Let me hear this right, 4GB memory on a $1,400 laptop and 256GB drive using a RAID 0 of all things.

Using a RAID 0 on a laptop is beyond stupid because if ONE disk goes, so does ALL of your data and with SSD's you won't see the difference between RAID and non-RAID configuration.

 

[Guest]

I bought one in December, I must say it's an incredible laptop despite the battery life and some problems with the WiFi that I've already fixed (thankfully) it feels very solid.

 

[Guest]

To the comment that says RAID 0 SSD is beyond stupid. The same SSD (LiteOn) in single only configuration gets a 7.8 Windows experience index, but goes up to 8.3 in RAID 0. So this point is not true. The failure rate of SSD is so low that I do not think there is much risk in doubling up here. The main point Acer were aiming for is rapid boot. This thing has one of the fastest boot-up times of any portable, high-end laptop, netbook etc.

The only criticism I have is the 4GB (which is soldered in). It should have been 8GB.

 

[Guest]

I bought the Acer Aspire S7 from the Microsoft store in Toronto, after using for a week I realized that the internal battery only lasted between 3 to 4 hours, I went back to the Microsoft store to buy the external add-on battery pack, I was told they do not carry any Acer products other than the laptops, they told me to buy it on Acers web site.
That is when I went into Acers spin cycle. The Canadian web site does not carry it, the American web site will not ship to Canada. The emails I sent to Acer asking about the external battery add-on came back telling me that that battery was still under warranty & to send my laptop in to be repaired. I called them up in the USA & was told they can not ship to Canada, but to call their tech number & they could sell me the battery & ship it to Canada. After 45 minutes talking to Daisy in tech support I was told she can not ship to Canada. I then went to Acer Canada's head office, where they gave me a 1-800 number to call, it was some authorized company in Canada & he said he would ask Acer in Texas if they had the battery, I never heard back from him. The moral of the story is I should have bought a Mac Book