Gadgetory

i'm dan ackerman and we are here taking a look at the Acer Aspire s7 now if this looks familiar or sounds familiar that's because the s7 was one of the first Windows 8 laptops that we saw that was specifically built with windows 8 in mind because it was very thin and had a touchscreen built in it was one of our favorites because it really had a cool unique look especially because on the back of the lid instead of aluminum or plastic it was actually a big gorilla glass panel which was kind of funky and made a little bit lighter and was still very sturdy even though it was glass this new version of the s7 looks pretty much identical the big change here is that it has one of Intel's new fourth-generation core i series processors in it also known by the code name has well when that gives you is not so much increased performance I mean that's fine but it gives you much better battery life in fact in systems like the macbook air which I would consider pretty direct competitor to this we got 12 hours of battery life on our tests this guy got a little bit about seven but that's still better than the original s Evan that we saw last year the rest of it is made out of aluminum a little bit of plastic the keyboard still a bit on the shallow side i like the large touchpad however if you're looking for a laptop that's really going to stand out in the crowd but still be fairly useful and be super thin and light if you're willing to pay a little bit more this guy is 39 for core i5 that's what i have here the first version we looked at was I think a core i7 for about 16 or 17 hundred dollars then you definitely want to take a look at the s7 there are some other very nice thin ultrabooks out there as well like the sony vaio pro series and of course any of those really do get compared to the macbook air i love the design on this guy i'm not sure i'd pay this much for it but i'm glad i get to play around it for a little while I'm the enactment and that is the acer aspire as