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I'm Dan Ackerman and we are here to take a look at the Acer Aspire v7 now you may look at this rather unassuming 14-inch ultrabook and say it looks kind of drab looks like it belongs maybe in an office cubicle you would not be wrong it's got a very kind of gray brushed metal look black keys off that little black around the screen bezel here kind of two-tone nothing super exciting but I was pretty impressed with what was under the hood in this particular review unit we've got an Intel Core i7 CPU it's got a big 1 terabyte hard drive it also has a small SSD cache to it it's got a 1080p touchscreen you know full 1920 by 1080 and most importantly it's got an NVIDIA GeForce 750 M graphics card now that's not a super high-end hardcore gamer graphics card but you know what for mainstream gaming it's pretty good and about as good as you're gonna get in a super slim Ultrabook style laptop like this now that means this is a little bit more expensive than maybe what you'd expect to pay for something that's so kind of plain looking this configuration is I think 1199 but there are several other pre-configured versions of the aspire v7 that you can find my favorite I was about $8.99 you knock the hard drive down to five hundred gigs you knock the CPU down to a core i5 but to keep that Nvidia 750 graphics card and you know what for playing games like Skyrim or Bioshock as long as you play it at medium settings you can keep the resolution all the way up at 1920 by 1080 and it plays fairly well I still think for 1,200 bucks and adds a little bit of a budget feel I didn't love the really shallow keyboard or the touchpad but for gaming a feeling of small and compact and slim you're not gonna do a heck of a lot better than this I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Acer Aspire v7