Welcome to yet another unboxing online detective. Today I do not have a camera
person, but I can give you guys sort as
an apology for me having to to sort of ghetto it today. I can give you guys a
quick tour of the new NCIX TechTips
filming studio. So, we've got a blue wall here, which will be the background
for NCX Tech Tips. Got some power outlets and some network outlets. Got a
green screen wall for all kinds of crazy cool stuff we might want to do with
that. Got our cart that has our usual sort of knickknacks on it. Here's the
pile of all of the stuff that was in the old tech tips room. And that pretty much
concludes it today. I'm going to be having a look at the Acer Aspire S7.
This is an extremely exciting notebook. It has Windows 8. It has a touchcreen
and it is basically just awesome. So, here's the full specs. 11.6 in HD touch
panel, LED LCD, HD graphics, 4,000, 4 gigs of RAM, a 256 gig SSD in this
particular configuration of it. But what's most important about this
notebook is the fact that it is so
freaking small. Now, this isn't a proper retail box, so there's going to be some
things potentially missing, like discs and warranty info and all that kind of
stuff, but we can see the power brick. So, the power brick
is there's my iPhone 4 comparison. A
little bit thicker than an iPhone 4, a little bit smaller than an iPhone 4.
Pretty reasonable size considering that this is a Core i3 machine. So, it's or
excuse me, this is a Core i7 machine. And the form factor is just outstanding.
Hold on. Let's just see if there's anything else in here that So, this is
probably what the retail packaging will look like, but it will actually have stuff in it. So, now let's check out the
machine itself. Now, it has just an awesome brushed. It almost looks like,
okay, I I hate to use the word scratched, but it almost looks like it's
got like an aluminum sort of um diamond
pattern scratch in it. So, it's going at kind of diagonals here. I like two
things about this. It looks really nice. And I like that if you accidentally
scratch it, it will be more hidden than something like, say, for example, an iPad 2 where the aluminum is very plain,
very flat looking. The hinge is very well constructed actually, especially
considering the size. You've got your indicator LEDs here for charging as well
as power. And there's another hinge right there. On the sides, IO is pretty
simple. So, you got your micro SD slot, your headphone microphone jack, your USB
3.0, and that's pretty much it on this side. On the back, you find some
ventilation, lots of ventilation, as well as, check that out, micro HDMI.
Very good stuff. On the other side, you got your power in. You got your power
button and another super speed USB 3.0
jack. At the front of the notebook, you find not a whole lot, just some Acer
Aspires S7 branding. You can see the finish of this is just gorgeous. So, the
whole top cover is aluminum. You've also got a handle there for opening it up.
And then the bottom is just plastic, but
it's a very clean, very nice looking, just white, plain plastic. You got
speaker ports built into the bottom of the notebook. So, these will reflect up off of whatever hard surface you're on.
If you're on a soft surface, then you're not going to have Oh, sorry. I was
pointing at the Sorry, that those are the intakes for the ventilation. Uh
speakers are here and here. So, you got stereo speakers and they're going to
reflect off of whatever it is from the slight curvature of the notebook body.
You can see you're going to get a little bit more sound sort of coming out this
way. But, I wouldn't I mean, with anything in this form factor, I wouldn't expect the speakers to be like amazing
or anything. Once we open it up, we find
standard keyboard layout. We're going to find out how quickly it wakes up from
actually I think is this in sleep? I guess we'll find out one way or the
other. Yeah, it was in sleep. There you go. Or h not sure actually. All right.
So, uh once we get inside, we find a chicklet type keyboard layout with no
cardinal sins to speak of. So, we've got long shift keys, uh, enter key,
actually, yeah, correct enter key, backspace, delete are actually pretty
cleverly positioned. Long tab. Everything in here looks okay. If
anything, they've shrunk some of the stuff that's stupid. Like, who uses the top of their enter key? And who wants to
hit the caps lock key all the time? Not
I. Uh, we're using like an edgetoedge
like No, we're using it's using edgetoedge glass almost to the edge. So
there's a little bit of aluminum here from sort of the unibody top and then it
goes right to here. That's where the glass is. So that'll allow you to easily
swipe in from the bottom or swipe in from the side. This is an engineering
sample notebook. So actually some of the gestures aren't working correctly on it.
So forgive me guys. This is not a finished product, but the actual one
will work correctly for all of the gestures that you want to do. Screen is
actually pretty darn good. So you've got reasonable viewing angles. It is glossy,
so you do have to contend with that. here. This is probably going to be a better way to give you guys a look at
it. So, there you go. Viewing angles are are quite excellent. If you come up
here, you can still see it very, very well. And what I like most about this is
the portability. It weighs almost nothing. So, here I never did show you
guys my iPhone comparison for the thinnest of the overall notebook, which
is just crazy tiny tiny thing. So, there
that gives you some idea of the size of this notebook and then the thinness
here. Check that out. out here. I got to I got to move it to the edge. You almost
lose it in the uh in the cloth
here. Very very thin, very light because
of the aluminum plastic construction. Very solid feeling. So, I would actually
use this with confidence like this because the hinge is quite
sturdy. Like I wouldn't worry about it breaking or anything, which is usually
the case on notebooks of this kind of size. And uh here is aluminum as well.
So that's again what contributes to the sturdiness of the machine. Touchpad is
reasonably sized actually. Here I'll do another another iPhone size comparison.
Haha. Reasonably sized actually for a notebook of this size as well and the
correct uh the correct aspect ratio for the 16x9 screen. So it's a 1366 x 768
screen on there. I think that pretty much wraps it up. Thank you for checking
out my unboxing and first look at the Acer Spire S7. It's kind of a lie
calling this a first look because this is not the first time I've looked at it.
I'm really excited about this notebook. I've been playing around with it a fair bit. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus
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