1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:10,880 welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Aspire S7 13.3 in from Acer 2 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:15,559 now I've already had a look at their 11in model which has an aluminum uh 3 00:00:13,559 --> 00:00:26,039 actually gorgeous aluminum finish on the top of it but this is like sort of if if 4 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:29,039 the Aspire S7 11 in is sexy then this is 5 00:00:26,039 --> 00:00:30,439 like ah I don't know it sort of I don't 6 00:00:29,039 --> 00:00:37,239 I don't know what word to use for it anymore because this is the version that 7 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:39,239 has its 13.3 in it has Gorilla Glass on 8 00:00:37,239 --> 00:00:46,079 the top it's 1080p so it's uh full HD in a 13-inch 9 00:00:43,879 --> 00:00:48,840 form factor which is pretty good pixel density especially for a notebook 10 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:53,359 because of the distance you're going to be sitting from it and let's get started 11 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:57,520 here I guess so the first thing you find is uh 12 00:00:55,160 --> 00:01:01,559 verbing network uh so that's probably German accessing a wireless network 13 00:01:00,039 --> 00:01:05,560 they've got a quick start guide for that as well as uh showing you a couple cool 14 00:01:03,399 --> 00:01:10,119 things about the notebook itself how do I access charms how do I get to start 15 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:14,159 all that good stuff um actually there's an episode of NC Tech tips that you can 16 00:01:12,439 --> 00:01:18,159 check out so the the start menu thing reminded me of this but uh if you want 17 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:20,960 to know how to add the start menu to Windows 8 it's not a bad idea lots of 18 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:26,000 people do it all right included power brick so you 19 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:30,119 can already tell that this is a premium machine just because of the way the 20 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:34,640 power brick is white so there's they're doing those extra little things that set 21 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:38,840 it apart from from other notebooks it's also a very small power brick so I'll do 22 00:01:36,320 --> 00:01:44,240 the obligatory phone size comparison so this is an HTC 8X Windows 23 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:48,439 phone there you go so you can see the thickness of the brick versus the phone 24 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:52,960 let's go ahead and get that away same thing packaging is very very sleek and 25 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:57,680 elegant as well there's the notebook itself there's also oh look at that 26 00:01:55,079 --> 00:02:03,640 comes with a carrying sleeve oo very nice 27 00:02:00,439 --> 00:02:06,000 no way is this leather 28 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:10,879 wow that's awesome velcro would have preferred to 29 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:15,640 see a magnet but uh inside is kind of a a microfiber feeling material and uh 30 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:19,440 there you go just closes like that you got a nice little Acer logo on there 31 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:24,560 actually that's I mean it's pretty I shouldn't call it velcro I should call 32 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:26,280 it uh you know stick and whatever it's 33 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:31,400 called but velcro's velcro is a trademark you're not supposed to call it 34 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:35,400 that all right next up we we've got the 35 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:37,599 Acer oh so thin oh love it really 36 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:43,400 excited about this okay but first but first the boring 37 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:47,159 things so in here we've 38 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:50,159 got how do I access charms again as well 39 00:02:47,159 --> 00:02:52,760 as a quick start guide all right then 40 00:02:50,159 --> 00:02:56,800 we've got some warranty information so it has a one-ear parts and labor 41 00:02:54,640 --> 00:03:01,080 warranty software support oh they do software support for 90 days that's kind 42 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:06,640 of nice actually okay and more accessories all the 43 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:10,720 compartments comes with a mouse okay so that's a wireless mouse 44 00:03:08,959 --> 00:03:17,640 uses two AAA batteries also comes with what's in 45 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:19,440 here oh adapter all right I do like to 46 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:22,920 see stuff like this included it actually kind of drives me crazy when 47 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:27,159 manufacturers are going to go and use a proprietary connector for something at 48 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:30,799 least have the decency to include the adapter that you need so that you can 49 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:37,519 get the function it that your notebook is supposed to have so if you're going to have like a weird uh VGA adapter then 50 00:03:35,599 --> 00:03:42,360 go ahead and and give me one so that I so that I actually have it all right so 51 00:03:40,439 --> 00:03:47,560 the thinness of this machine is extremely impressive especially given 52 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:52,400 that it is a touchscreen notebook so that adds some width to it just right 53 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:57,200 off the top because that extra interface layer is there and does take up space 54 00:03:54,840 --> 00:04:02,560 holy crap it's thin and I mean you can see the tooling on it is immaculate 55 00:03:59,799 --> 00:04:06,200 there's absolutely no Gap whatsoever between actually okay well there's a gap 56 00:04:04,159 --> 00:04:10,560 but it's because there's a paper thing in there so if I go ahead and uh take 57 00:04:08,239 --> 00:04:14,879 that out oh wow that's like I think this is paper but it's probably the most 58 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:20,320 expensive paper I've ever encountered uh okay so there you go so there's no Gap 59 00:04:17,479 --> 00:04:23,919 whatsoever in the twoing on the notebook itself everything is even this is one of 60 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:30,199 the things that you can check for and how you can tell a premium notebook from 61 00:04:26,840 --> 00:04:31,919 a less premium notebook it's uh it it it 62 00:04:30,199 --> 00:04:36,080 takes a lot more time and a lot more effort and much tighter manufacturing 63 00:04:33,759 --> 00:04:38,479 tolerances to do something like that now I'm going to do a flex test with this 64 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:43,080 thing and you guys are going to like this too so watch this you can see the 65 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:47,560 amount of flex there is to this notebook in spite of how thin it is part of that 66 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:53,840 is due to the here we go double-sided Gorilla 67 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:58,600 Glass on the display itself so there's a gorilla glass panel here Gorilla Glass 2 68 00:04:56,160 --> 00:05:03,000 rather with a white uh with just with like a white uh a white piece behind it 69 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:09,080 so you've also got sort of a shiny silver Acer logo there Gorilla Glass 70 00:05:05,759 --> 00:05:11,240 here and then Gorilla Glass 2 again here 71 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:14,759 on the inside so it means that you've got that sort of that buttery smooth 72 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:18,520 feel that you get with gorilla glass it also means that the notebook itself is 73 00:05:16,759 --> 00:05:24,680 going to be more durable than notebooks that are not using Gorilla Glass uh the 74 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:25,919 panel it very nice the panel is I don't 75 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:30,000 think the brightness is even all the way up either so let's go have a look there 76 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:34,840 settings brightness Crank It Up yep there we go so the panel is presumably 77 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:38,120 IPS whatever it is it's not TN viewing angles are outstanding so I'm going to 78 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:42,360 let Diesel have a quick look at what the colors look like straight on you got 79 00:05:39,759 --> 00:05:47,479 that got that okay now we're going to go ahead oh oh oh how far does it go all 80 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:50,919 the way down 180° so if you want to lay this flat whether it's to work on it 81 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:57,240 from one side while you're showing something what you're working on from the other side or whether it's to carry 82 00:05:54,919 --> 00:06:01,400 around and use it more like uh more like a tablet um so I'll show you that after 83 00:05:59,759 --> 00:06:05,840 but okay now let's have a look at the viewing angles from the side d d d oh 84 00:06:04,479 --> 00:06:10,080 how's that color Distortion over there diesel do you see anything yeah I'm I'm 85 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:15,680 getting the I'm getting the head shake looks absolutely beautiful so oh it goes 86 00:06:12,840 --> 00:06:20,400 more than 180 degrees check this out so it goes all the way down to all the way 87 00:06:18,479 --> 00:06:24,160 back here meaning that you can actually kind of use it like a tablet if you 88 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:27,919 wanted to and what's great about this one and the 11in model this is something 89 00:06:26,039 --> 00:06:32,319 I really liked about the 11 in is that it's light enough that you can com use 90 00:06:30,039 --> 00:06:36,919 it with one hand because of the aluminum Construction in spite of the glass up 91 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:40,440 here so remember guys an Ultra Book label only applies to notebooks that 92 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:45,400 meet the requirements in terms of battery life thickness weight as well as 93 00:06:43,639 --> 00:06:48,759 security features and a number of other things from Intel they also have to have 94 00:06:46,919 --> 00:06:54,560 a certain level of performance so we're going to go ahead and do a quick sleep 95 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:56,479 test here so we'll shut her down and 96 00:06:54,560 --> 00:07:00,720 ready wake up there we go so they have to have a 97 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:06,479 certain level of performance in terms of sleep and in spite of the two pieces of 98 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:09,960 glass up here it still is well within that weight requirement and it is 99 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:14,400 extremely light the keyboard itself uses an El backlight so it's light sensing 100 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:17,440 which means it's only going to turn on uh at a brightness level that is 101 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:23,360 actually needed so I'm going to go ahead I'm going to turn it on manually now uh 102 00:07:20,759 --> 00:07:28,520 if I can find the hotkey to do that which I am having a little bit of 103 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:34,440 trouble with here function oh is it on oh it's on oh oh that looks so cool ah 104 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:39,520 okay lights off guys check this out there we go so it's got a bit of a 105 00:07:37,639 --> 00:07:46,039 blue hue to it can you see that Diesel he's given me the uh the somewhat 106 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:50,159 gesture how about now now we got it absolutely beautiful so function keys 107 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:55,440 can be used to increase the brightness or decrease the brightness so you've got 108 00:07:52,159 --> 00:07:58,400 a looks like uh not that many brightness 109 00:07:55,440 --> 00:08:03,400 levels just two brightness levels but it's either super dim which is like this 110 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:08,319 for use in a very very dark environment where you don't want it to be overpowering or you can brighten it up 111 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:13,039 and that is a very unique looking backlight so you actually can't see much 112 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:17,879 around the outside of the chicklet Keys like you normally would but it shows 113 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:23,840 through not only on one color but also the blue color Keys as sort of a subdued 114 00:08:21,039 --> 00:08:27,560 uh uh Bluey kind of light looks very very very beautiful so there's a shot of 115 00:08:26,199 --> 00:08:33,080 the notebook before I turn the lights back on ready guys and 3 two 1 lights 116 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:35,839 back on thank you all right now I 117 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:39,440 haven't even talked about specs at all and I actually I wrote them down on 118 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:46,200 something but I forget so it's a 357u which is a 1.9 GHz core I 7 and it's got 119 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:51,640 4 gigs of RAM a 256 gig SSD in this particular model here Wireless and four 120 00:08:48,399 --> 00:08:54,959 cell polymer battery polymer battery and 121 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:58,120 then in terms of IO we've got power here 122 00:08:54,959 --> 00:09:00,200 as well as HDMI here as well as a 123 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:06,120 headphone microphone Jack here power button here all right there's speakers 124 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:10,519 stereo speakers on this guy and so nothing on the front 125 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:13,480 whatsoever then on this side are you catching all this you got all this in 126 00:09:11,680 --> 00:09:17,440 Focus yeah I'm getting the nod excellent so we've got two USB 3.0 ports one of 127 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:21,920 them is charging capable so it just means it can deliver more current we've 128 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:28,000 also got an SD card reader then on the back very similarly to the other S7 129 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:31,040 we've got ventilation ports and finally 130 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:33,279 on the bottom we we've got uh more 131 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:37,800 ventilation ports here and then we've also got those there those two speakers 132 00:09:35,399 --> 00:09:42,079 that I pointed out one of them when we were uh going around the other side so 133 00:09:39,959 --> 00:09:46,800 you see the bottom is actually kind of a plasticky material here so that helps to 134 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:49,920 do a couple things number one is it saves on the cost a little bit it's also 135 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:55,200 makes it more environmentally friendly to manufacturer I don't know if you guys know this but the amount of wasted 136 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:59,519 material and the amount of environmental impact on unibody shells is actually 137 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:03,440 higher than manufacturing notebooks layers so there's a little tidbit for 138 00:10:01,560 --> 00:10:06,320 you um it doesn't lose any of the rigidity though so you can see even 139 00:10:05,079 --> 00:10:12,320 actually here this is this is even better so without the benefit of the gorilla glass this is my rigidity test 140 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:16,839 check that out yeah you're going to see some Flex I'm also putting a lot of pressure on it that's about as much Flex 141 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:23,560 as you're going to get out of that chassis and part of that is I'm going to let diesel sort of try to focus in here 142 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:28,120 is see how thick of a piece of aluminum they've used for this single slab all 143 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:31,880 across the top can you see that so with my finger for comparison that's what 144 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:35,880 gives it the build quality that's what makes a notebook like this extremely 145 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:39,560 expensive to manufacture so we're going to put this down again I'm just going to 146 00:10:37,399 --> 00:10:45,040 show you guys those adapters so one of these adapters is a USB LAN adapter so 147 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:49,360 that's just for if you want to I don't know plug in not use wireless because 148 00:10:47,399 --> 00:10:54,519 wireless is not that great and then this guy right here is a VGA adapter that 149 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:59,399 actually plugs into that HDMI outport so that'll be either micro HDMI out or VGA 150 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:03,320 out depending on what you want making this suitable for professional use 151 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:07,320 because I've criticized uh I've criticized notebooks for not including 152 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:10,760 VGA especially Ultra Portables where they'd be suitable for business except 153 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:13,920 that a lot of boardrooms only have old VGA projectors and you're going to need 154 00:11:12,399 --> 00:11:18,680 something that's actually able to plug in so having an analog output is an 155 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:22,360 important thing I think that pretty much wraps it up other than that this is one 156 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:27,839 of the most I mean okay here I don't want to give sort of you know too much 157 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:30,480 too much detail about anything but uh 158 00:11:27,839 --> 00:11:35,000 the president of NCI X actually chose for his own personal notebook and Aspire 159 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:38,680 S7 so there you go he can have pretty much whatever notebook he wants has 160 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:43,320 touched pretty much any notebook out there and used it and he basically he 161 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:47,200 sent out a memo that went this is the best notebook I've ever owned so there 162 00:11:45,399 --> 00:11:51,279 you go and I'm inclined to agree with them they're absolutely gorgeous I mean 163 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:54,680 even things like the hinges check this out let's do another Flex test I don't 164 00:11:53,079 --> 00:12:00,639 usually do this one but I'm going to take the very top of this notebook and 165 00:11:57,079 --> 00:12:03,079 remon it can you see that okay 166 00:12:00,639 --> 00:12:08,160 okay hinge is everything in manufacturing notebooks the hinge is so 167 00:12:05,839 --> 00:12:12,360 important that's it thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look 168 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:16,880 at the S7 13in don't forget to subscribe to lineus Tech tips for more unboxings 169 00:12:13,839 --> 00:12:16,880 reviews and other computer 170 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:24,360 videos so I was uh reboxing it and I the 171 00:12:22,519 --> 00:12:28,519 thing just kind of fell open and I was like huh what in the heck is this so 172 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:34,959 apparently this one comes with an extended back battery pack so this adds 173 00:12:30,959 --> 00:12:36,880 another 2500 Milah battery pack and then 174 00:12:34,959 --> 00:12:40,440 all you do to mount it to the bottom of the S7 they've actually put a lot of 175 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:46,399 thought into this so it has like a nice rubber uh non-scratching piece here that 176 00:12:44,199 --> 00:12:52,600 pretty much covers the entire thing so you basically go okay you put that kind 177 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:57,040 of yeah there we go so it Clips onto the back with a little clip right there can 178 00:12:54,720 --> 00:13:02,399 you see that diesel y Just Clips in there then you've got a couple of um 179 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:04,240 rubber protected screws here so that 180 00:13:02,399 --> 00:13:08,600 those also won't scratch the bottom even if you put them in wrong the first time 181 00:13:06,279 --> 00:13:12,519 so you just go ahead and screw that on and then this is a very F I mean I've 182 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:16,519 seen a lot of different extended battery designs some of which kind of stick out 183 00:13:14,399 --> 00:13:20,279 the back of the notebook and some of which kind of Raise The Notebook but 184 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:23,639 this is very functional I like this because it doesn't interfere with any of 185 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:27,560 the cooling it doesn't look stupid especially from this side okay 186 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:32,880 from this side it looks a little weird but it doesn't look stupid and then it 187 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:35,160 also acts as kind of a notebook stand so 188 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:39,880 now you've got a slight angle to The Notebook so typing is still 189 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:43,320 comfortable and all that good stuff that you would expect except now you have an 190 00:13:41,839 --> 00:13:47,720 extended battery so you just plug your power adapter in here instead of here 191 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:51,959 and then that little uh hole right there that I paused on when I was doing the 192 00:13:50,079 --> 00:13:57,320 initial video uh because I was a little confused about goes like this so that's 193 00:13:54,440 --> 00:14:01,920 just a stabilizer for the DC in pass through from the battery pack itself 194 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:07,800 there you go and then it just tucks back in there quite 195 00:14:03,279 --> 00:14:07,800 nicely so it's even better