Sunday, 2 September 2012

Acer Aspire Ultrabook S5: World's Thinnest Ultrabook

By Ben French


The Acer Aspire S5 Ultrabook features a lightweight design and very fast SSD performance. Of all of the thin laptops on the market, the Acer S5 is the only one to feature a port cover that is motorized, as well as one of the few laptops on the market to provide a Thunderbolt port.

Battery: Battery life of this thin ultrabook is scored to be a maximum of 6.5 hours. This is a shorter period compared with what the other ultrabooks have. It comes with a three cell battery. Its battery life might be one of the features that are uninspiring. Most people think about the battery life to be a poor showing when compared to the previous 13 inche series 9. The last series had a battery life up to 7 hours.

Screen size and resolution: The Acer Aspire S5 Ultrabook features a standard 1,366 x 768 resolution TN screen. The 13.3 inch screen laptop features an LED glossy display and Intel HD 4000 graphics. Several reviews on the Acer S5 point out that the screen quality wasn't especially high quality given the rather hefty price tag of the computer.

Processing Power: The processing power of the Acer Aspire S5 is what makes it shine and sets it beyond other laptop models. Processor is a 1.9 GHz Intel Core i7-3517U CPU with 4GB of RAM. The disk performance of this computer beats out any other laptops out there due to dual 12 GB, LiteOn-branded SATA III SSD's featuring RAID a configuration. This ultrabook has a mere 12 secs to boot up.

Weight: When it comes to purchasing computing machines, most of the people overlook the weight. The Acer S5 ultrabook, being the thinnest, is ultimately the lightest. The S5 weighs approximately 2.65 pounds. Which means that you can easily carry it around without hurting your arm or your back.

Summary: The S5 has some user flaws however there's no perfect machine. The yet to be released S7 series is something that most people hope will be a better version of the S5. However it still remains that the S5 is still a superb ultrabook. The Acer S5 was mostly built with heavy computer users in mind.




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