Acer Aspire S3-951

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 64 expert reviews

Excellent:

7
Good:

20
Average:

23
Bad:

14

Pros:

Sleek design.
Good performance.
Battery life.

Cons:

Keyboard and Screen could be better.
Battery life not as good as other Ultrabooks.

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Last revision on November 5, 2014

Reviewers Liked

Sleek design
Good performance
Battery life
SSD cache allows for instant resume
Affordable for an Ultrabook
A nice feat of engineering at a respectable price
Combination of spinning hard drive and SSD provides larger storage capacity without losing speed

Reviewers Didn't Like

Keyboard and Screen could be better
Battery life not as good as other Ultrabooks
Lack of ports
Tiny arrow keys
Poor audio quality
Performance is average at best
Surprisingly loud and aggressive fan
Stuffed to the gills with shovelware
Truction feels cheap

Expert reviews and ratings

First, I have to address the storage system in the S5. A single 256GB solid state drive would have been just fine with me but Acer went above and beyond with a RAID0 system consisting of two 128GB Lite-On SSDs. Sure, two storage drives increases...

By TechSpot on October 02, 2012

Acer What is it? An Ultrabook with a non-ultra price. What's great? It's very slim and light, with good battery life, yet comes in at less than £700. What's not? The casing's a little plasticky, and the keyboard's cramped. Bottom line It can't match the...

By tech.uk.msn.com on December 27, 2013

The Acer Aspire S3-951-6432 Ultrabook provides a good set of features for the $1250 price, including a fast processor and a large SSD drive. We found that it had good performance in most of our tests, quickly cranking through our tests in Photoshop,...

By laptops.reviewed.com on May 15, 2012

Product round-up It took a little while for the production lines to get going, but the first few months of 2012 have seen super-slim Ultrabooks completely outnumbering every other type of desktop or laptop PC coming our way. Intel’s tight definition...

By theregister.co.uk on May 12, 2012

The Acer Aspire S3 is an attractive machine at first appearances and more attractive when you see the price tag. It however, doesn't have the features that compete with the best of the Ultrabook and lacks a little. However, it offers i5, ultraportable...

By laptops.co.uk on March 30, 2012

The Asus S3 feels like a middle of the road laptop. It does everything you need it to do without ever excelling itself. A short battery life is the real kicker, but that’s the price you pay for an ultrabook that costs a lot less than many of its...

By gadgetshow.channel5.com on March 23, 2012

Despite being one of the cheapest Ultrabooks on the market, Acer's Aspire S3 is a solid, unshowy performer with serious low-budget...

By PC Pro on March 12, 2012

Acer has taken a slightly different approach to Ultrabooks, coming up with two distinct lines of its S3 series. In appearance they all look the same -- with a clean, stylish uni-body design that makes them look like MacBook Air clones -- but they...

By APC Magazine on February 28, 2012

The Aspire S3 looks like good value on paper, but it's actually not much better than other thin and light laptops...

By Computeractive on February 27, 2012

While there’s a lot to like about Acer’s debut Ultrabook, it’s not all perfect. Most of the issues we’ve highlighted are easily ignored, and at $1599, it’s $200 less than the Apple equivalent. Windows users after a good deal will probably be pleased...

By Gadget Guy Australia on February 16, 2012

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