Saturday, October 19, 2013

Acer Aspire S7-191-6447 11.6-Inch Touchscreen Ultrabook (Silver)


Acer S7-191-6447 Ultrabook comes with these high level specs: 3rd Generation Intel Core i5-3337U Processor, Windows 8, 11.6-Inch Full HD (1920 x 1080) widescreen CineCrystal LED-backlit display, Multi-touch screen, supporting 10 finger touch, Mobile Intel HM77 Express Chipset, Intel HD Graphics 4000 with 128MB of dedicated system memory, 4096MB DDR3 Memory, 128GB SSD Drive (In RAID 0 configuration), 2-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader, 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi CERTIFIED, Bluetooth 4.0+HS, Built-In HD Webcam, 2 - USB 3.0 Ports, 1 - Micro-HDMI Port, 4-cell Lithium Polymer Battery (3790 mAh), 2nd 3-Cell Lithium-ion Battery Pack (2500mAh), Up to 5-hours Battery Life (with 4-cell battery), Up to 9.5-hours Battery Life (with 4-cell battery & 2nd Battery)...
  • Intel Core i5-3337U 1.8 GHz (3 MB Cache)
  • 4 GB DDR3 RAM
  • 128 GB Solid-State Drive
  • 11.6-Inch Touch Screen, Intel HD Graphics 4000
  • Windows 8, 5-hour battery life

This Laptops give to us some advantages, like this :
1. I'm happy with mine. Update: Dead in 2 months.
Update, 07/17/2013:

Well, after two months, I have a $1,100 doorstop. My S7 is completely, absolutely, positively dead. It won't start up, no LED's light up to show that anything is going on, no LED's light up to show that the charger is plugged in -- it is just a lump of worthlessness. I've used it very sparingly -- less than once a week, I think I could call it. It has always been protected by a sleeve or a case, even while it's been sitting in a drawer. The only way I could have been more gentle with it would have been to have just put it in a drawer, and never touched it again.

All I can do now is send it away, and hope that it will come back some day. And then see if it will last longer than another two months. Unfortunately, Acer's online forum has quite a few messages about S7 notebooks failing at around two months of life, and it doesn't look like a single one has ever been repaired -- Acer hasn't had the parts to fix them. I can only send it off...

2. Mixed feelings
(Updated 7/2013) So I've had this laptop about 4 months. My #1,2 and 3 criteria were weight and I LOVE LOVE LOVE how light this is. For the first time ever, I have a functional laptop I can carry around with me which I love. Did I mention how light it is? It starts up super-fast which makes it extremely usable. Did I mention the weight? That, I think, is the saving grace on this laptop. It is thin, small, and easy to pop in my bag and carry around. I hardly notice when I am carrying it which is a large change from my prior 3# computer. The screen is small, but for me, weight was the main need, so it is functional. If this were your main computer, I think you would want a 13" screen.

I actually like the touchscreen aspect, particularly the ability to increase font size. I think in a few years, this will be a nice feature. I saw a few years because it is too early in the technology now. The overall design of the Asus is lovely and it's a beautiful and well-designed...

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I'm happy with mine. Update: Dead in 2 months.
Update, 07/17/2013:

Well, after two months, I have a $1,100 doorstop. My S7 is completely, absolutely, positively dead. It won't start up, no LED's light up to show that anything is going on, no LED's light up to show that the charger is plugged in -- it is just a lump of worthlessness. I've used it very sparingly -- less than once a week, I think I could call it. It has always been protected by a sleeve or a case, even while it's been sitting in a drawer. The only way I could have been more gentle with it would have been to have just put it in a drawer, and never touched it again.

All I can do now is send it away, and hope that it will come back some day. And then see if it will last longer than another two months. Unfortunately, Acer's online forum has quite a few messages about S7 notebooks failing at around two months of life, and it doesn't look like a single one has ever been repaired -- Acer hasn't had the parts to fix them. I can only send it off...
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