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Posted October 2, 2012, 1:34 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in TechSpot, Hardware
Could a few hundred bucks tacked on the top end make a difference between a vanilla ultrabook and something truly special? That's something Acer is willing to gamble on with its latest flagship ultrabook.

The Aspire S5 comes with a beefy Core i7-3517U clocked at 1.9GHz, 4GB of RAM and 256GB of flash storage -- no hybrid caching system here. In most instances, an SSD is the best component upgrade for any modern system, but Acer took things one step further as the S5 is equipped with two 128GB SSDs in a RAID0 configuration. It goes without saying that the storage subsystem should be blazing fast.
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Posted November 1, 2011, 8:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Industry News, Mobile Computing
The first batch of ultrabooks are off to an uninspired start with sales expected to land well short of manufacturers' early projections. Sources speaking with DigiTimes say that Acer and Asus are expected to hawk around 100,000 units each by…
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Posted October 10, 2011, 4:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing
Acer's first "ultrabook" is finally hitting the market this week with a price below the magic $1,000 mark and a surprisingly good feature set. The 13.3-inch Aspire S3 is 0.51 inches thin and weighs only 2.98 pounds. Its chassis is…
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