welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Aspire S7 13.3 in from Acer
now I've already had a look at their 11in model which has an aluminum uh
actually gorgeous aluminum finish on the top of it but this is like sort of if if
the Aspire S7 11 in is sexy then this is
like ah I don't know it sort of I don't
I don't know what word to use for it anymore because this is the version that
has its 13.3 in it has Gorilla Glass on
the top it's 1080p so it's uh full HD in a 13-inch
form factor which is pretty good pixel density especially for a notebook
because of the distance you're going to be sitting from it and let's get started
here I guess so the first thing you find is uh
verbing network uh so that's probably German accessing a wireless network
they've got a quick start guide for that as well as uh showing you a couple cool
things about the notebook itself how do I access charms how do I get to start
all that good stuff um actually there's an episode of NC Tech tips that you can
check out so the the start menu thing reminded me of this but uh if you want
to know how to add the start menu to Windows 8 it's not a bad idea lots of
people do it all right included power brick so you
can already tell that this is a premium machine just because of the way the
power brick is white so there's they're doing those extra little things that set
it apart from from other notebooks it's also a very small power brick so I'll do
the obligatory phone size comparison so this is an HTC 8X Windows
phone there you go so you can see the thickness of the brick versus the phone
let's go ahead and get that away same thing packaging is very very sleek and
elegant as well there's the notebook itself there's also oh look at that
comes with a carrying sleeve oo very nice
no way is this leather
wow that's awesome velcro would have preferred to
see a magnet but uh inside is kind of a a microfiber feeling material and uh
there you go just closes like that you got a nice little Acer logo on there
actually that's I mean it's pretty I shouldn't call it velcro I should call
it uh you know stick and whatever it's
called but velcro's velcro is a trademark you're not supposed to call it
that all right next up we we've got the
Acer oh so thin oh love it really
excited about this okay but first but first the boring
things so in here we've
got how do I access charms again as well
as a quick start guide all right then
we've got some warranty information so it has a one-ear parts and labor
warranty software support oh they do software support for 90 days that's kind
of nice actually okay and more accessories all the
compartments comes with a mouse okay so that's a wireless mouse
uses two AAA batteries also comes with what's in
here oh adapter all right I do like to
see stuff like this included it actually kind of drives me crazy when
manufacturers are going to go and use a proprietary connector for something at
least have the decency to include the adapter that you need so that you can
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
go ahead and and give me one so that I so that I actually have it all right so
the thinness of this machine is extremely impressive especially given
that it is a touchscreen notebook so that adds some width to it just right
off the top because that extra interface layer is there and does take up space
holy crap it's thin and I mean you can see the tooling on it is immaculate
there's absolutely no Gap whatsoever between actually okay well there's a gap
but it's because there's a paper thing in there so if I go ahead and uh take
that out oh wow that's like I think this is paper but it's probably the most
expensive paper I've ever encountered uh okay so there you go so there's no Gap
whatsoever in the twoing on the notebook itself everything is even this is one of
the things that you can check for and how you can tell a premium notebook from
a less premium notebook it's uh it it it
takes a lot more time and a lot more effort and much tighter manufacturing
tolerances to do something like that now I'm going to do a flex test with this
thing and you guys are going to like this too so watch this you can see the
amount of flex there is to this notebook in spite of how thin it is part of that
is due to the here we go double-sided Gorilla
Glass on the display itself so there's a gorilla glass panel here Gorilla Glass 2
rather with a white uh with just with like a white uh a white piece behind it
so you've also got sort of a shiny silver Acer logo there Gorilla Glass
here and then Gorilla Glass 2 again here
on the inside so it means that you've got that sort of that buttery smooth
feel that you get with gorilla glass it also means that the notebook itself is
going to be more durable than notebooks that are not using Gorilla Glass uh the
panel it very nice the panel is I don't
think the brightness is even all the way up either so let's go have a look there
settings brightness Crank It Up yep there we go so the panel is presumably
IPS whatever it is it's not TN viewing angles are outstanding so I'm going to
let Diesel have a quick look at what the colors look like straight on you got
that got that okay now we're going to go ahead oh oh oh how far does it go all
the way down 180° so if you want to lay this flat whether it's to work on it
from one side while you're showing something what you're working on from the other side or whether it's to carry
around and use it more like uh more like a tablet um so I'll show you that after
but okay now let's have a look at the viewing angles from the side d d d oh
how's that color Distortion over there diesel do you see anything yeah I'm I'm
getting the I'm getting the head shake looks absolutely beautiful so oh it goes
more than 180 degrees check this out so it goes all the way down to all the way
back here meaning that you can actually kind of use it like a tablet if you
wanted to and what's great about this one and the 11in model this is something
I really liked about the 11 in is that it's light enough that you can com use
it with one hand because of the aluminum Construction in spite of the glass up
here so remember guys an Ultra Book label only applies to notebooks that
meet the requirements in terms of battery life thickness weight as well as
security features and a number of other things from Intel they also have to have
a certain level of performance so we're going to go ahead and do a quick sleep
test here so we'll shut her down and
ready wake up there we go so they have to have a
certain level of performance in terms of sleep and in spite of the two pieces of
glass up here it still is well within that weight requirement and it is
extremely light the keyboard itself uses an El backlight so it's light sensing
which means it's only going to turn on uh at a brightness level that is
actually needed so I'm going to go ahead I'm going to turn it on manually now uh
if I can find the hotkey to do that which I am having a little bit of
trouble with here function oh is it on oh it's on oh oh that looks so cool ah
okay lights off guys check this out there we go so it's got a bit of a
blue hue to it can you see that Diesel he's given me the uh the somewhat
gesture how about now now we got it absolutely beautiful so function keys
can be used to increase the brightness or decrease the brightness so you've got
a looks like uh not that many brightness
levels just two brightness levels but it's either super dim which is like this
for use in a very very dark environment where you don't want it to be overpowering or you can brighten it up
and that is a very unique looking backlight so you actually can't see much
around the outside of the chicklet Keys like you normally would but it shows
through not only on one color but also the blue color Keys as sort of a subdued
uh uh Bluey kind of light looks very very very beautiful so there's a shot of
the notebook before I turn the lights back on ready guys and 3 two 1 lights
back on thank you all right now I
haven't even talked about specs at all and I actually I wrote them down on
something but I forget so it's a 357u which is a 1.9 GHz core I 7 and it's got
4 gigs of RAM a 256 gig SSD in this particular model here Wireless and four
cell polymer battery polymer battery and
then in terms of IO we've got power here
as well as HDMI here as well as a
headphone microphone Jack here power button here all right there's speakers
stereo speakers on this guy and so nothing on the front
whatsoever then on this side are you catching all this you got all this in
Focus yeah I'm getting the nod excellent so we've got two USB 3.0 ports one of
them is charging capable so it just means it can deliver more current we've
also got an SD card reader then on the back very similarly to the other S7
we've got ventilation ports and finally
on the bottom we we've got uh more
ventilation ports here and then we've also got those there those two speakers
that I pointed out one of them when we were uh going around the other side so
you see the bottom is actually kind of a plasticky material here so that helps to
do a couple things number one is it saves on the cost a little bit it's also
makes it more environmentally friendly to manufacturer I don't know if you guys know this but the amount of wasted
material and the amount of environmental impact on unibody shells is actually
higher than manufacturing notebooks layers so there's a little tidbit for
you um it doesn't lose any of the rigidity though so you can see even
actually here this is this is even better so without the benefit of the gorilla glass this is my rigidity test
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
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
is see how thick of a piece of aluminum they've used for this single slab all
across the top can you see that so with my finger for comparison that's what
gives it the build quality that's what makes a notebook like this extremely
expensive to manufacture so we're going to put this down again I'm just going to
show you guys those adapters so one of these adapters is a USB LAN adapter so
that's just for if you want to I don't know plug in not use wireless because
wireless is not that great and then this guy right here is a VGA adapter that
actually plugs into that HDMI outport so that'll be either micro HDMI out or VGA
out depending on what you want making this suitable for professional use
because I've criticized uh I've criticized notebooks for not including
VGA especially Ultra Portables where they'd be suitable for business except
that a lot of boardrooms only have old VGA projectors and you're going to need
something that's actually able to plug in so having an analog output is an
important thing I think that pretty much wraps it up other than that this is one
of the most I mean okay here I don't want to give sort of you know too much
too much detail about anything but uh
the president of NCI X actually chose for his own personal notebook and Aspire
S7 so there you go he can have pretty much whatever notebook he wants has
touched pretty much any notebook out there and used it and he basically he
sent out a memo that went this is the best notebook I've ever owned so there
you go and I'm inclined to agree with them they're absolutely gorgeous I mean
even things like the hinges check this out let's do another Flex test I don't
usually do this one but I'm going to take the very top of this notebook and
remon it can you see that okay
okay hinge is everything in manufacturing notebooks the hinge is so
important that's it thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look
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videos so I was uh reboxing it and I the
thing just kind of fell open and I was like huh what in the heck is this so
apparently this one comes with an extended back battery pack so this adds
another 2500 Milah battery pack and then
all you do to mount it to the bottom of the S7 they've actually put a lot of
thought into this so it has like a nice rubber uh non-scratching piece here that
pretty much covers the entire thing so you basically go okay you put that kind
of yeah there we go so it Clips onto the back with a little clip right there can
you see that diesel y Just Clips in there then you've got a couple of um
rubber protected screws here so that
those also won't scratch the bottom even if you put them in wrong the first time
so you just go ahead and screw that on and then this is a very F I mean I've
seen a lot of different extended battery designs some of which kind of stick out
the back of the notebook and some of which kind of Raise The Notebook but
this is very functional I like this because it doesn't interfere with any of
the cooling it doesn't look stupid especially from this side okay
from this side it looks a little weird but it doesn't look stupid and then it
also acts as kind of a notebook stand so
now you've got a slight angle to The Notebook so typing is still
comfortable and all that good stuff that you would expect except now you have an
extended battery so you just plug your power adapter in here instead of here
and then that little uh hole right there that I paused on when I was doing the
initial video uh because I was a little confused about goes like this so that's
just a stabilizer for the DC in pass through from the battery pack itself
there you go and then it just tucks back in there quite
nicely so it's even better