WEBVTT 00:00:07.359 --> 00:00:15.599 Welcome to yet another unboxing online detective. Today I do not have a camera 00:00:11.280 --> 00:00:17.920 person, but I can give you guys sort as 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:23.199 an apology for me having to to sort of ghetto it today. I can give you guys a 00:00:20.080 --> 00:00:25.279 quick tour of the new NCIX TechTips 00:00:23.199 --> 00:00:29.519 filming studio. So, we've got a blue wall here, which will be the background 00:00:26.720 --> 00:00:35.360 for NCX Tech Tips. Got some power outlets and some network outlets. Got a 00:00:32.480 --> 00:00:39.680 green screen wall for all kinds of crazy cool stuff we might want to do with 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:44.480 that. Got our cart that has our usual sort of knickknacks on it. Here's the 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:47.840 pile of all of the stuff that was in the old tech tips room. And that pretty much 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:53.840 concludes it today. I'm going to be having a look at the Acer Aspire S7. 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:58.320 This is an extremely exciting notebook. It has Windows 8. It has a touchcreen 00:00:56.320 --> 00:01:04.559 and it is basically just awesome. So, here's the full specs. 11.6 in HD touch 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:09.360 panel, LED LCD, HD graphics, 4,000, 4 gigs of RAM, a 256 gig SSD in this 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:14.479 particular configuration of it. But what's most important about this 00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:16.400 notebook is the fact that it is so 00:01:14.479 --> 00:01:20.479 freaking small. Now, this isn't a proper retail box, so there's going to be some 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:24.799 things potentially missing, like discs and warranty info and all that kind of 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:30.560 stuff, but we can see the power brick. So, the power brick 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:32.240 is there's my iPhone 4 comparison. A 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:35.920 little bit thicker than an iPhone 4, a little bit smaller than an iPhone 4. 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:41.920 Pretty reasonable size considering that this is a Core i3 machine. So, it's or 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:46.240 excuse me, this is a Core i7 machine. And the form factor is just outstanding. 00:01:44.720 --> 00:01:49.360 Hold on. Let's just see if there's anything else in here that So, this is 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:54.720 probably what the retail packaging will look like, but it will actually have stuff in it. So, now let's check out the 00:01:52.960 --> 00:01:59.040 machine itself. Now, it has just an awesome brushed. It almost looks like, 00:01:57.600 --> 00:02:05.200 okay, I I hate to use the word scratched, but it almost looks like it's 00:02:01.759 --> 00:02:07.119 got like an aluminum sort of um diamond 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:11.440 pattern scratch in it. So, it's going at kind of diagonals here. I like two 00:02:09.119 --> 00:02:15.360 things about this. It looks really nice. And I like that if you accidentally 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:21.840 scratch it, it will be more hidden than something like, say, for example, an iPad 2 where the aluminum is very plain, 00:02:18.879 --> 00:02:25.520 very flat looking. The hinge is very well constructed actually, especially 00:02:23.440 --> 00:02:29.920 considering the size. You've got your indicator LEDs here for charging as well 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:36.720 as power. And there's another hinge right there. On the sides, IO is pretty 00:02:33.920 --> 00:02:42.319 simple. So, you got your micro SD slot, your headphone microphone jack, your USB 00:02:40.040 --> 00:02:46.319 3.0, and that's pretty much it on this side. On the back, you find some 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:51.599 ventilation, lots of ventilation, as well as, check that out, micro HDMI. 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:56.959 Very good stuff. On the other side, you got your power in. You got your power 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:59.200 button and another super speed USB 3.0 00:02:56.959 --> 00:03:03.360 jack. At the front of the notebook, you find not a whole lot, just some Acer 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:06.959 Aspires S7 branding. You can see the finish of this is just gorgeous. So, the 00:03:04.959 --> 00:03:12.080 whole top cover is aluminum. You've also got a handle there for opening it up. 00:03:08.480 --> 00:03:13.920 And then the bottom is just plastic, but 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:17.360 it's a very clean, very nice looking, just white, plain plastic. You got 00:03:15.920 --> 00:03:22.239 speaker ports built into the bottom of the notebook. So, these will reflect up off of whatever hard surface you're on. 00:03:20.640 --> 00:03:25.360 If you're on a soft surface, then you're not going to have Oh, sorry. I was 00:03:23.920 --> 00:03:29.760 pointing at the Sorry, that those are the intakes for the ventilation. Uh 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:32.720 speakers are here and here. So, you got stereo speakers and they're going to 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:37.120 reflect off of whatever it is from the slight curvature of the notebook body. 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:40.480 You can see you're going to get a little bit more sound sort of coming out this 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:48.959 way. But, I wouldn't I mean, with anything in this form factor, I wouldn't expect the speakers to be like amazing 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:50.400 or anything. Once we open it up, we find 00:03:48.959 --> 00:03:55.440 standard keyboard layout. We're going to find out how quickly it wakes up from 00:03:52.959 --> 00:04:01.200 actually I think is this in sleep? I guess we'll find out one way or the 00:03:58.519 --> 00:04:06.080 other. Yeah, it was in sleep. There you go. Or h not sure actually. All right. 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:11.040 So, uh once we get inside, we find a chicklet type keyboard layout with no 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:16.239 cardinal sins to speak of. So, we've got long shift keys, uh, enter key, 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:20.959 actually, yeah, correct enter key, backspace, delete are actually pretty 00:04:18.479 --> 00:04:23.759 cleverly positioned. Long tab. Everything in here looks okay. If 00:04:22.400 --> 00:04:31.000 anything, they've shrunk some of the stuff that's stupid. Like, who uses the top of their enter key? And who wants to 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:34.560 hit the caps lock key all the time? Not 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:36.080 I. Uh, we're using like an edgetoedge 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:39.199 like No, we're using it's using edgetoedge glass almost to the edge. So 00:04:37.919 --> 00:04:43.040 there's a little bit of aluminum here from sort of the unibody top and then it 00:04:41.520 --> 00:04:46.960 goes right to here. That's where the glass is. So that'll allow you to easily 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:50.160 swipe in from the bottom or swipe in from the side. This is an engineering 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:53.840 sample notebook. So actually some of the gestures aren't working correctly on it. 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:57.919 So forgive me guys. This is not a finished product, but the actual one 00:04:56.320 --> 00:05:02.639 will work correctly for all of the gestures that you want to do. Screen is 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:06.720 actually pretty darn good. So you've got reasonable viewing angles. It is glossy, 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:11.199 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 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:14.880 it. So, there you go. Viewing angles are are quite excellent. If you come up 00:05:12.960 --> 00:05:18.960 here, you can still see it very, very well. And what I like most about this is 00:05:17.440 --> 00:05:22.720 the portability. It weighs almost nothing. So, here I never did show you 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:28.560 guys my iPhone comparison for the thinnest of the overall notebook, which 00:05:25.039 --> 00:05:30.479 is just crazy tiny tiny thing. So, there 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:35.440 that gives you some idea of the size of this notebook and then the thinness 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:40.280 here. Check that out. out here. I got to I got to move it to the edge. You almost 00:05:36.960 --> 00:05:43.440 lose it in the uh in the cloth 00:05:40.280 --> 00:05:45.440 here. Very very thin, very light because 00:05:43.440 --> 00:05:49.280 of the aluminum plastic construction. Very solid feeling. So, I would actually 00:05:47.280 --> 00:05:53.680 use this with confidence like this because the hinge is quite 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:57.560 sturdy. Like I wouldn't worry about it breaking or anything, which is usually 00:05:55.199 --> 00:06:02.639 the case on notebooks of this kind of size. And uh here is aluminum as well. 00:06:00.880 --> 00:06:07.520 So that's again what contributes to the sturdiness of the machine. Touchpad is 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:11.919 reasonably sized actually. Here I'll do another another iPhone size comparison. 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:16.560 Haha. Reasonably sized actually for a notebook of this size as well and the 00:06:13.840 --> 00:06:22.319 correct uh the correct aspect ratio for the 16x9 screen. So it's a 1366 x 768 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:26.160 screen on there. I think that pretty much wraps it up. Thank you for checking 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:30.160 out my unboxing and first look at the Acer Spire S7. It's kind of a lie 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:33.120 calling this a first look because this is not the first time I've looked at it. 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:37.680 I'm really excited about this notebook. I've been playing around with it a fair bit. 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