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Linus tech tips coverage of computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital our trusted gaming gear partner is corsair vengeance and our trusted retail partner is NCIX calm now if you've been following lately you'll know that there's a couple of acer devices that i am personally pretty enamored with one is the w7 which is a phenomenally well built Windows tablet and the other is the Aspire s7 which is actually the notebook being carried around by yours truly here at the show but this is an all new device this is the w3 which is a full Windows 8 tablet in an 8-inch form factor this is the first time we've seen this so it's got sort of the expects there are the specs that you'd expect so it's got the new Intel Atom processor it's got two gigs of RAM it's available in 32 gig or 64 gig configurations but there are a couple things that are unique about it so you've got microSD expansion which is nice to have but I'm going to have our lovely assistant Peter here show me how you actually transport this around with you so it comes with the keyboard dock or doesn't yet go ahead it comes with the keyboard doctor it doesn't depending on the region but it clips in on the speaker ports down at the bottom stays in place now you can chuck it in your bag and you're ready to take it with you on the go but Linus why would I ever take a tablet out of my house I never use my tablet outside of my house personally I don't use my tablet outside of my house well there's a good answer it comes pre-loaded with microsoft office in spite of the fact that this is not a Windows RT devices is a full-blown windows 8 device meaning you can run your modern UI experience oh thank you you can run a modern UI experience you can run a don't worry we'll get this modern UI regular desktop experience whatever it is you happen to want you can run all of your legacy applications but it comes pre-loaded with office meaning you can actually get something done on it when you're on the go as how things always happen at these things guys these are pre production units these aren't going to be available till sometime around end of June so this one right here yes the button there does load up the modern UI so you've got that same interface that you're going to be familiar with already and then there's the desktop including the don't see if I can figure out how to use this thank you Peter hopefully we're going to find whatever you saw microsoft office on the other one so let's move on to the next cool thing that ace are showing off in their booth now this is a pretty unique design if you check out the coverage we did from the intel booth on NCIX tech tips we showed a lot of different hinge designs for two and one type devices tablet notebook we don't know what it is this it doesn't quite fit cleanly into that category because it's a little bit unique this is the Aspire r7 from Acer and I might have to get a lovely assistant to come in here and help me move it around because I've got only one hand but it can basically be used in what would be a traditional notebook mode so there you go it's open all the way you may have noticed or you may not have noticed that the touchpad is in a bit of a different position on this thing so it's intended for you to be using it either as a touch put traditional notebook mode just like that or and I have complained about this so many times what is the problem with touchscreen the problem is that it is fatiguing to sit like this with your arm like this it's too far away show me what it does this is why the touchpad gets covered up it is intended to be used in what they're calling ezel mode this allows you to easily hahaha oh wow this allows you to easily use the keyboard for typing and the touch screen for interacting with the device like this is touch perfect for everyone the answer's no touch is not for everyone and if touch isn't for you you don't have to use it a lot of the time I would probably end up having a mouse hooked up to this but I'm the kind of person who actually carries a gaming mouse around in his backpack so not everyone is necessarily me if it was like my kid using it then it's going to be like Angry Birds or whatever okay well there's some kind of a bird let's go look at that one sort of complete there's a bird okay so angry birds or something like that well that's what they're going to want to do and this is going to be a perfect mode for that now with that said it's not like you lose the productivity as well personally I think me a while to get used to a touchpad on the top of check this out if I'm working on something I want to show it to someone this I can probably do on my own you flip it around you can see in the mirror right here it auto rotates which means you can easily show someone something this could be great for creative professionals and just for content consumption you don't have to use it as a notebook at all it can be used in tablet mode it is a little bit on the heavy side guys let's be realistic it's a notebook it's not a tablet it's a full-fledged notebook device you got your USB 3 you got your SD card you got everything that you could want on a notebook it's also got an IPS panel and I've pretty much run out of steam for what to say about this other than yeah that looks pretty cool very different from anything else that we've seen so far now we're almost at the part that I'm really excited about that I'd been geeking out about but I guess I'll do this one first because it's pretty cool as well this is the aspire s3 which is very similar to the notebook that I use except that it has been made a little bit more accessible in terms of pricing so what have they changed versus the s7 number one is the keyboard is black ok not that big of a difference number two is the keyboard lacks the eol illumination that automatically reacts to the lighting in the room ok so if you really need an illuminated keyboard you're going to want to get an s7 number two is it only has a glass surface on the multi-touch touch screen on the back of the notebook is now a plastic surface so that's not going to be quite a scuff resistant but it's certainly going to have some scratch and scuff resistance even though it's not quite to the same degree as glass would it's a little bit thicker but you actually get something in return for increasing that thickness you're actually able to add check this out a dedicated graphics card to it so this particular model comes with a GT 7 35 m which compared to the onboard graphics that are available in most of these than in light notebooks is definitely going to be an improvement it also uses up to a one terabyte sshd meaning you're going to have quick resumes from sleep I've gone ahead and put it to sleep right here so we're going to go ahead and wake it up check this out especially compared to traditional hard drives that do not have an SSD component built into them although psst models may also be available and this is the one that I'm actually excited about this is the Aspire s7 392 if you guys have ever watched one of my livestreams or you've ever heard me talk about my favorite notebook you'll already know I have one of these but this is the older generation and I had three complaints about my notebook three each of which has been addressed with the new generation product complaint number one the battery life is not good enough I have to carry around this external battery in order to keep it acceptable to the point where I can really get the six-hour six and a half hours of battery life that I need out of it thirty percent better battery life in the new device very nice complaint number two the keyboard is extremely low profile too low profile it's not very comfortable to type on it doesn't bother me as much as it bugs slick but BAM higher travel distance Keys on the new keyboard in spite of the fact that the new s7 is one millimeter thinner than the old s7 last but not least the touchpad on mine has a bit of a latency issue it legs and it's a little bit too twitchy sometimes when I'm trying to use it and and click with the with the buttons down here new s7 no more leg all gone it is now officially like I actually couldn't improve anything about it at this point so that's a shame because you guys are going to have a REIT it's going to be a real trick to make something better than this in my eyes now so guys don't miss any of our computex 2013 coverage remember we're powered here by WD corsair vengeance gaming peripherals and NCIX calm and check out the link in the video description don't forget to check out our forum subscribe all that great stuff we're going to have more coming for you very soon