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by a qualifying Intel product and get entered in the Intel dynamic ticket giveaway for a chance to win great prizes visit Intel gaming promo com to learn more welcome to one of the unboxings that I am most excited about we've actually got quite a few products in the unboxing queue right now but this one yeah this one jumped the queue because I am stoked to check it out now I saw this already once at Computex 2013 but this is the next generation has well based a sir aspire s7 392 now you might be saying - really you're getting excited about an Acer notebook no that was the old Acer the Acer that didn't build things that were absolutely drool-worthy for a long time I was afraid that if I needed a notebook I was going to have to buy a macbook because there was no one else building anything that was very compelling not true anymore the original s7 has been my companion for the last few months but I did have some complaints about it number one battery life ain't that hot you had to use an extended battery life to get what I'd really consider to be acceptable sort of seven to eight hour maybe nine hours sometimes battery life out of it not that impressive it's also quite loud the keyboard has an extremely short key travel which you have to kind of understand because it's extremely slim and the touch pads a little bit finicky alright all of those complaints they're addressed so this is officially in my mind at least from sort of from my usage case because I don't need the power this is as good as it gets for me so ah okay let's open this up so first of all it comes with a little sort of you know fake leather e carrying case so this is looks like it actually hasn't changed since the last gen there you go side-by-side comparison looks pretty similar alright next up we've got a little QuickStart guide whatever Windows 8 okay if you haven't used Windows 8 before I do actually recommend checking it out we've got the notebook itself which is actually slimmer than the old one even which is kind of cool the power adapter has actually been changed quite a bit so it comes first of all with these the final run the thin DC wire that goes into the notebook itself which has been altered so the older one had a very fragile connector and a very sort of small plug this one has the same small fragile connector but a slightly different shaped plug so that much has been changed at least also the shape of the power brick itself has been altered too so it comes with little adapter pieces that you can go ahead and plug into that as well as into the wall piece here which is quite large the older one just had a standard wall plug so not quite so bulky and it had more of a flat-pack style power brick the only problem I had with the old one though was that this was didn't connect very well at least on my sample anyway so it sometimes would come out but at any rate so they've changed that sort of more tubular design alright and that's pretty much it in terms of included accessories there's a Quick Start Guide your windows Khoa and then on to the notebook itself so the old one actually included an extended battery because Acer must have known that the battery life just wasn't good enough on its own the new one does not need to include any such thing so ASA uses Gorilla Glass on the top of the notebook itself they're actually the first ones to make Gorilla Glass anything other than aesthetic as far as I can tell with the original s7 so Gorilla Glass offers improved rugged ability less are more resistance to damage from things like flexing or dropping or scratching anything like that then let's go ahead and have a look at the overall slimness so they've actually made it slightly slimmer although when I pulled out my 391 at Computex and held it up side by side with the 392 it was awfully hard to tell so here let's go ahead and put them side by side by side there I'll they actually kind of start to add up in terms of weight once you start stacking them like that so anyway there you go so it is slightly slimmer than the old one it uses the same aluminium unibody design which in addition to the Gorilla Glass gives it and not strength that you can't actually you can actually flex the thing too much in spite of its slimness and the hinge is what they're calling their dual torque hinge so I actually do really like the hinge on this notebook so you can see it opens up slightly more than 180 degrees which I did find myself using from time to time so you know just walking around holding it like this it's almost like a tablet in terms of its lightness as well as in terms of its of its size so it's a 13.3 inch display it's 1080p in North America however it's 2560 by 1440 by default in Europe you lucky dogs which I would love to have once we open it up we actually find one of the other upgrades so right here I hope you guys are able to see this but I'm not sure you'll be able to but the keys have a deeper travel so the aluminum around the keyboard is actually indented whereas on the old one it actually was indented but it was much less so that gives a more satisfying tactile response to the keys in fact you can hear the difference and they have also revised the touchpad to be slightly less twitchy when you are double-clicking or whatever else you can also see that because they've reached the battery life target set up by Intel the Ultrabook branding is now on the new s7 whereas the old one was not technically an ultrabook even though it was a very very slim notebook it uses the same il backlit keyboard so it only lights up in situations where you need it and it has a very satisfying blue glow and in terms of Io they haven't really changed much to speak of so over here we've got mini display port as well as HDMI full size HDMI oh that's oh that's kind of cool okay they've changed a lot this is better one USB 3.0 port on this side a headphone microphone combo Jack then over on the other side we've got a an SD as a card reader now oh no the old one have a card here okay okay I forgot about that another USB 3 port the on/off switch as well as the power input they've changed the cooling but I can already tell the new one runs a little bit warmer the old one so basically acer has tuned the cooling internally with what they're calling their twin air cooling design and because Haswell has lower power consumption because Haswell does run cooler they've also tuned the fans to be significantly quieter but it seems like it does run a little bit warmer particularly here right in the middle of the back the back uses a plastic composite material where you're going to find two stereo speakers as well as air intakes and other than that it is extremely clean and simple looking just like the old one except that I have that add-on battery pack sort of strapped on there in terms of other upgrades to the specs so yeah it has well you can get it with either a 4200 U or a 4500 u but they've also got either 4 gig or 8 gig ram options they've got a raid 0 SSD it's funny to me to see manufacturers moving towards raid 0 because it's just I mean it decreases reliability however with solid state storage it's less likely to be damaged in a drop or whatever else like that like there's kind of arguments for or against but raid 0 is a more complicated configuration and it is not something that I really feel that strongly positive about to be perfectly honest but either way it's got raid 0 in either a 128 or 256 gig configuration and it will give better performance particularly for SSDs and b-roll is leaning on my thing there it's got a dual array mic now so that means it should be able to pick out your voice when you're using it for voice communication or video communication or whatever else and it supports why I now so Acer is quoting a seven to eight hour battery life for this guy which puts it right in line with where the old one was maybe a little bit below the old one with the weird bulky battery wart that sticks out of the bottom so there you have it guys the notebook that I personally like more than anything else that's out there don't forget to subscribe to - tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos let me know in the comments what you thought of the video what you think of the Aspire essence by rs7 392 is this the new Acer that you would consider using or can you not sort of lose them in your mind as sort of that commodity machine builder and last but not least like the video if you liked it and dislike it if you disliked it a leader