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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the aspire s7 13.3 inch from Acer now I've already had a look at their 11 inch model which has an aluminum actually gorgeous aluminum finish on the top of it but this is like sort of if if the aspire s7 11 inch is sexy then this is like I don't know it sort of I don't I don't know what word to use for it anymore because this is the version that has its 13.3 inch it has Gorilla Glass on the top it's 1080p so it's full HD in a 13 inch form factor which is pretty good pixel density especially for a notebook because of the distance you're gonna be sitting from it and let's get started here I guess so the first thing you find is verb ending makin Matheny Drive Loused Network so that's probably German accessing a wireless network so they've got a QuickStart guide for that as well as showing you a couple cool things about the notebook itself how do I access charms how do I get to start all that good stuff actually there's an episode of NCIS tech tips that you can check out so the the Start menu thing reminded me of this but if you want to know how to add the Start menu to Windows 8 it's not a bad idea lots of people do it alright included power brick so you can already tell that this is a premium machine just because of the way the power brick is white so they're they're doing those extra little things that set it apart from from other notebooks it's also a very small power brick so I'll do the obligatory phone size comparison so this is an HTC 8x Windows Phone there you go so you can see the thickness of the brick versus the phone let's go ahead and get that away the same thing Packaging is very very sleek and elegant as well there's the notebook itself there's also that comes with a carrying sleeve mmm very nice way this leather wow that's awesome velcro would have preferred to see a magnet but inside is kind of a micro fiber II feeling material and there you go closes like that you got a nice little acer logo on there it's actually that's I mean it's pretty I shouldn't call it velcro I should call it you know stick and whatever it's called but velcro's velcro as a trademark I'm not supposed to call it that all right next up we've got the Acer Oh so thin oh love it really excited about this okay but first but first the boring things so in here we've got him how do I access charms again as well as a QuickStart guide all right then we've got some warranty information so it has a one-year parts and labor warranty software support oh they can do software support for 90 days that's kind of nice actually okay and more accessories all the compartments comes with a mouse okay so that's a wireless mouse uses two triple A batteries also comes with what's in here Oh what doctors all right I do like to see stuff like this included it actually kind of drives me crazy when manufacturers are gonna go and use a proprietary connector for something at least have the decency to include the adapter that you need so that you can get the functionality that your notebook is supposed to have so if you're gonna have like a weird VGA adapter then go ahead and give me one so that I saw that I actually have it all right so the thinness of this machine is extremely impressive especially given that it is a touchscreen notebook so that adds some width to it just right off the top because that extra interface layer is there and does take up space holy crap it's thin and I mean you can see the tooling on it is immaculate there's absolutely no gap whatsoever between actually okay well there's a gap but it's because there's a paper thing in there so if I go ahead and take that out oh wow that's like I think this is paper but it's probably the most expensive paper I've ever encountered okay so there you go so there's no gap whatsoever in the tooling on the notebook itself everything is even this is one of the things that you can check for and how you can tell a premium notebook from a less Premium notebook it's it takes a lot more time and a lot more effort and much tighter manufacturing tolerances to do something like that now I'm gonna do a flex test with this thing and you guys are gonna like this too so watch this you can see the amount of flex there is to this notebook in spite of how thin it is part of that is due to V here we go double-sided Gorilla Glass on the display itself so there's a gorilla glass panel here Gorilla Glass 2 rather with a white with just with like a white a white piece behind it so you've also got sort of a shiny silver Acer logo there grow the glass here and then Gorilla Glass 2 again here on the inside so it means that you've got that sort of that buttery smooth feel that you get with Gorilla Glass it also means that the notebook itself is going to be more durable than notebooks that are not using Gorilla Glass the panel is very nice the panel is I don't think the brightness is even all the way up either so let's go have a look there settings brightness cranked it up yeah there we go so the panel is presumably IPS whatever it is it's not TN viewing angles are outstanding so I'm gonna let Diesel have a quick look at what the colors look like straight on you got that got that okay now we're gonna go ahead oh oh oh how far does it go all the way down 180 degrees so if you want to lay this flat whether it's to work on it from one side while you're showing something what you're working on from the other side or whether it's to carry around and use it more like more like a tablet so I'll show you that after but okay now let's have a look at the viewing angles from the side that do that do that do that do that Oh how's that color distortion over there Diesel do you see anything yeah I'm getting me I'm getting the headshake looks absolutely beautiful so all that goes more than 180 degrees check this out so it goes all the way down to all the way back here meaning that you can actually kind of use it like a tablet if you wanted to and what's great about this one and the 11 inch model this is something I really liked about the 11 inch is that it's light enough that you can comfortably use it with one hand because of the aluminum construction in spite of the glass up here so remember guys an ultrabook label only applies to notebooks that meet the requirements in terms of battery life thickness weight as well as security features and a number of other things from Intel they also have to have a certain level of performance so we're gonna go ahead and do a quick sleep test here so we'll shut her down and ready did it wake up there we go so they have to have a certain level of performance in terms of sleep and in spite of the two pieces of glass up here it still is well within that weight requirement and it is extremely light the keyboard itself uses an L backlight so it's light sensing which means it's only gonna turn on at a brightness level that is actually needed so I'm gonna go ahead I'm gonna turn it on manually now if I can find the hotkey to do that which I am having a little bit of trouble with here function oh is it on oh it's on oh oh that looks so cool okay lights off guys check this out there we go so it's got a bit of a blue hue to it can you see that diesel he's given me the somewhat gesture how about now now we got it absolutely beautiful so function keys can be used to increase the brightness or decrease the brightness so you've got it looks like not that many brightness levels just two brightness levels but it's either super dim which is like this for us-- in a very very dark environment where you don't want it to be overpowering or you can brighten it up and that is a very unique looking backlight so you actually can't see much around the outside of the chiclet keys like you normally would but it shows through not only on one color but also the blue color keys as sort of a subdued bluey kind of light looks very very very beautiful so there's a shot of the notebook before I turn the lights back on ready guys and a321 lights back up thank you alright now I haven't even talked about specs at all and I actually I wrote them down on something but I forget so it's a 3517 u which is i 1.9 gigahertz core i7 and it's got 4 gigs of ram a 256 gig SSD in this particular model here Wireless and 4 cell polymer battery polymer battery and then in terms of i/o we've got power here as well as HDMI here as well as a headphone microphone jack here power button here all right there speakers stereo speakers on this guy and so nothing on the front whatsoever then on this side are you catching all this you got all this in focus yeah I'm getting the nod excellent so we've got two USB 3.0 ports one of them is charging capable so it just means it can deliver more current we've also got an SD card reader then on the back very similarly to the other s7 we've got ventilation ports and finally on the bottom we've got more ventilation ports here and then we've also got those there those two speakers that I pointed out one of them when we were going around the other side so you see the bottom is actually kind of a plasticy material here so that helps to do a couple things number one is it saves on the costs a little bit it's also makes it more environmentally friendly to manufacture I don't know if you guys know this but the amount of wasted material and the amount of environmental impact on unibody shells is actually higher than manufacturing notebooks and layers so there's a little tidbit for you it doesn't lose any of the rigidity though so you can see even actually here this is this is even better so without the benefit of the Gorilla Glass this is my rigidity test check that out yeah you're gonna see some flex I'm also putting a lot of pressure on it that's about as much flexes you're gonna get out of that chassis and part of that is I'm gonna let diesel sort of try to focus in here is see how thick of a piece of aluminum they've used for this single slab all across the top can you see that so with my finger for comparison that's what gives it the build quality that's what makes a notebook like this extremely expensive to manufacture so we're gonna put this down again I'm just gonna show you guys those adapters so one of these adapters is a USB LAN adapter so that's just four if you want to I don't know plug in not use Wireless because Wireless is not that great and then this guy right here is a VGA adapter that actually plugs into that HDMI out port so that'll be either micro HDMI out or VGA out depending on what you want making this suitable for professional use because I've criticised I've criticized notebooks for not including VGA especially Ultra portables where they'd be suitable for business except that a lot of boardrooms only have old VGA projectors and you're gonna need something that's actually able to plug in so having an analog output is an important thing I think that pretty much wraps it up other than that this is one of the most I mean ok here I don't want to give sort of you know too much too much detail about anything but the president of NCIX actually chose for his own personal notebook and aspire s7 so there you go you can have pretty much whatever notebook he wants has touched pretty much any notebook out there and used it and he basically he sent out a memo that went this is the best notebook I've ever owned so there you go and I'm inclined to agree with them they're absolutely gorgeous I mean even things like the hinges check this out let's do another flex test I don't usually do this one but I'm gonna take the very top of this notebook and ream on it can you see that okay hinge is everything in manufacturing notebooks the hinge is so important that's it thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the s7 13-inch don't forget to subscribe - tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos so I was Reebok Seng it and I that thing just kind of fell open I was like who the heck is this so apparently this one comes with an extended battery pack so this adds another 2,500 milliamp hour battery pack and then all you do to mount it to the bottom of the s7 they've actually put a lot of thought into this so it has like a nice rubber non-scratching piece here that pretty much covers the entire thing so you basically go okay I mean put that kind of yeah there we go so it clips on to the back with a little clip right there can you figure that do though yeah just clips in there then you've got a couple of rubber protected screws here so that those also won't scratch the bottom even if you put them in wrong the first time so you just go ahead and screw that on and then this is a very fun I mean I've seen a lot of different extended battery designs some of which kind of stick out the back of the notebook and some of which kind of raised the notebook but this is very functional I like this because it doesn't interfere with any of the cooling it doesn't look stupid especially from this side okay from this side it looks a little weird but it doesn't look stupid and then it also acts as kind of a notebook stand so now you've got a slight angle to the notebook so typing is still comfortable and all of that good stuff that you would expect except now you have an extended battery so you just plug your power adapter in here instead of here and then that little a hole right there that I paused on when I was doing the initial video because I was a little confused about goes like this so that's just a stabilizer for the DCN pass through from the battery pack itself there you go and then it just tucks back in there quite nicely so it's even better