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I'm dan Aykroyd and we are here to take a look at the Acer Aspire s5 now if you remember all the way back at CES 2012 in January we first saw the system at the time Acer said it was going to be when it finally came out the world's thinnest 13-inch Ultrabook and I will say it's actually a hair thinner and a little tiny bit lighter than even a 13-inch MacBook Air I think there might be one other laptop that's a hair thinner than this but that's not technically called an ultrabook so for now I'd say the record stands but that is not the most exciting thing about this particular laptop I'm going to show you what is if you look on the sides here there are no USB ports there's no video out anything like that what you have to do is look very carefully at the back and I'll show you that's right here you press a tiny button and that's right a little motorised port door opens up and it's got two USB 3.0 ports it's got HDMI and it's actually got Thunderbolt which is something you almost never see on a laptop or at least a Windows laptop you know I think that's pretty cool but everyone I showed this to had a similar reaction with one that's great and then they had the very same question to a person they all said what do you do when that breaks down now I'm using this thing over several days and dozens of deployments of the of the door which HR calls the magic flip I have not had a problem with it but it's a legitimate question what they try to do especially with very portable laptops like this is remove as many moving parts as possible not add new ones that's kind of why a lot of these smaller laptops have moved to solid-state hard drives rather than the traditional spinning platter hard drives and it is very cool to see Thunderbolt in a Windows laptop and something usually don't find outside of MacBooks even though this is a very thin very light laptop it's got an Intel Core i7 CPU in it that's the ultra low voltage version but it's still plenty speedy does not have the screen graphics we're starting to see that in a few ultrabooks but not here so you're not gonna use this for a lot of games but I thought that the the keyboard and the touch pad worked fairly well for such a small laptop one thing that drove me crazy the keyboard is actually not backlit that's something to see on almost any Ultrabook these days too real omission so if we were willing to take a chance on that motorized magic flip port or in the back willing to spend a little bit more this thing is $13.99 then you should definitely check it out I am Dan I come in and that is the Acer Aspire s5