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is nc.com now if you've been following

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lately you'll know that there's a couple of Acer devices that I am personally

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pretty enamored with one is the W7 which is a phenomenally well-built Windows

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tablet and the other is the Aspire S7 which is actually the notebook being

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carried around by Yours Truly here at the show but this is an all new device

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this is the W3 which is a full Windows 8

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tablet in an 8 in form factor this is the first time we've seen this so it's

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got sort of the expects are the specs that you'd expect so it's got the new

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Intel Atom Processor it's got 2 gigs of RAM it's available in 32 gig or 64 gig

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configurations but there are a couple things that are unique about it so

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you've got micro SD expansion which is nice to have but I'm going to have our

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lovely assistant Peter here show me how you actually transport this around with

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you so it comes with the keyboard Docker doesn't yeah go ahead it comes with the

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keyboard Docker it doesn't depending on the region but it Clips in on the

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speaker ports down at the bottom stays in place now you can Chuck it in your

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bag and you're ready to take it with you on the go but lonus why would I ever

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take a tablet out of my house I never use my tablet outside of my house

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personally I don't use my tablet outside of my house well there's a good answer

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it comes pre-loaded with Microsoft Office in spite of the fact that this is

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not a Windows RT device this is a full-blown window Windows 8 device

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meaning you can run your modern UI experience oh thank you you can run a

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modern UI experience you can run

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a don't worry we'll get this modern UI

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regular desktop experience whatever it is you happen to want you can run all of

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your legacy applications but it comes pre-loaded with office meaning you can

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actually get something done on it when you're on the go all

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right yeah that's that's how things always happen at these things maybe Guys

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these are pre-production units these aren't going to be available till

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sometime around end of June so this one right here yes the button there does

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load up the modern UI so you've got that same interface that you're going to be

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familiar with already and then there's the desktop including

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the see if I can figure out how to use this thank you Peter hopefully we're

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going to find whatever you saw Microsoft Office on the other one so let's move on

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to the next cool thing that AC are showing off in their booth now this is a

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pretty unique design if you check out the coverage we did from the Intel booth

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on NC Tech tips we showed a lot of

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different hinge designs for two-in-one type devices tablet notebook we don't

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know what it is this it doesn't quite fit cleanly into that category because

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it's a little bit unique this is the Aspire R7 from Acer and I might have to

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get a lovely assistant to come in here and help me move it around cuz I've got

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only one hand but it can basically be used in what would be a traditional

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notebook mode so there you go it's open all the way you may have noticed or you

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may not have noticed that the touchpad is in a bit of a different position on

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this thing so it's intended for you to be using it either as a touch P

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traditional notebook mode just like that or and I have complained about this so

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many times what is the problem with touchscreen the problem is that it is

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fatiguing to sit like this with your ARM like this it's too far away show me what

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it does this is why the touchpad gets

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covered up it is intended to be used in what they're calling easel mode this

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allows you to easily oh wow uh this allows you to

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easily use the keyboard for typing and the touch screen for interacting with a

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device like this is touch perfect for everyone the answer is no touch is not

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for everyone and if touch isn't for you you don't have to use it a lot of the

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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

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mouse around in his backpack so not everyone is necessarily me if it was

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like my kid using it then it's going to be like Angry Birds or whatever okay

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well there's some kind of a bird let's go look at that one sort of complete

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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

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going to be a perfect mode for that now with that said it's not like you lose

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the productivity as well personally I think it take me a while to get used to

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a touchpad on the top but check this out if I'm working on something I want to

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show it to someone this I can probably do on my own you flip it around you can

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see in the mirror right here it auto rotates which means you can easily show

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someone something this could be great for Creative professionals and just for

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Content consumption you don't have to use it as a notebook at all it can can

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be used in tablet mode it is a little bit on the heavy side guys let's be

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realistic it's a notebook it's not a tablet it's a full-fledged notebook

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device you got your USB 3 you got your SD card you got everything that you

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could want on a notebook it's also got an IPS panel and I've pretty much run

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out of steam for what to say about this other than yeah that looks pretty cool

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very different from anything else that we've seen so far now we're almost at

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the part that I'm really excited about that I've been geeking out about but I

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guess I'll do this one first cuz it's pretty cool as well this is the Aspire

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S3 which is very similar to The Notebook that I use except that it has been made

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a little bit more accessible in terms of pricing so what have they changed versus

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the S7 number one is the keyboard is black okay not that big of a difference

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number two is the keyboard lacks the E illumination that automatically reacts

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to the lighting in the room okay so if you really need an illuminated keyboard

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you're going to want to get an S7 number two is it only has a glass surface on

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the multi-touch touchcreen on the back of the notebook is now a

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plastic surface so that's not going to be quite as scuff resistant but it's

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certainly going to have some scratch and scuff resistance even though it's not

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quite to the same degree as glass would it's a little bit thicker but you

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actually get something in return for increasing that thickness you're

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actually able to add check this out a dedicated graphics card to it so this

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particular model comes with a GT 735m

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which compared to the onboard Graphics that are available in most of these thin

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and light notebooks is definitely going to be an improvement it also uses up to

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a 1 tbte sshd meaning you're going to have quick resumes from sleep I've gone

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ahead and put it to sleep right here so we're going to go ahead and wake it up check this

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out especially compared to traditional

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hard drives that do not have an SSD component built into them although pure

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SSD models may also be available and this is the one that I'm actually

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excited about this is the Aspire S7 392 if you you guys have ever watched

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one of my live streams or you've ever heard me talk about my favorite notebook

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you'll already know I have one of these

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but this is the older generation and I had three complaints about my notebook

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three Each of which has been addressed with the new generation product

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complaint number one the battery life is not good enough I have to carry around

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this external battery in order to keep it acceptable to the point where I can

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really get the 6 hours 6 and 1/ half hours of battery life that I need out of

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it 30% better battery life in the new device very nice complaint number two

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the keyboard is extremely low profile too low profile it's not very

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comfortable to type on it doesn't bother me as much as it bugs slick but bam

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higher travel distance keys on the new keyboard in spite of the fact that the

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new S7 is 1 mm thinner than the old S7

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last but not least the touchpad on mine has a bit of a latency issue it's it it

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legs and it's a little bit too Twitchy sometimes when I'm trying to use it and

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and click with the uh with the buttons down here new S7 no more leg all gone it

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is now officially like I I actually couldn't improve anything about it at

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this point so that's a shame because you

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guys are going to have a re it's going to be a real trick to make something better than this in my eyes now so guys

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