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amazon Acer Aspire S3 reviews
Design
Ultrabooks are evident threats MacBook Air, and Acer Aspire S3 is not the exception. However, Acer had to sacrifice many features to be able to produce Aspire S3 with cheaper rates. Acer Ultrabook designs with no dura or unbody alloys. The lid is made of aluminum, but the underside is made of plastic and silver bottom and is designed to look like unibody design though real is not that.
Machine hinge axis is arranged on connect ports and vents. Four rubber pads at the bottom of the machine can help steady when placed on the table
With a thickness from 0.51 to 0.6 inch, S3 thicker than the MacBook Air 13-inch.
Acer Aspire S3 weighs 1.36 kg, rivals the MacBook Air. Machines can be easily pocketed.
Heat capacity
Slim design caused concerns about the heat problem for the machine. At this point, the Aspire S3 successfully completed the task. After testing 15-minute long video PMs, the underside of the machine 85 degrees heat, touchpad and keys G, H for heat respectively 79 and 81 degrees.
Keyboard and Touchpad
Form island-style keyboard is not bad but quite hard. Keys quite large and fairly uniform distance (except the arrow keys).
Clickpad size 3.4 x 2.5-inch, not as large as on the MacBook Air but clickpad and sensitive enough to perform the tasks multitouch pinch and zoom with fingers. ClickPad also enables scanning 4 finger operation to minimize all windows and show the desktop.
Screen and sound
13,3 inch-screen resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels, inferior the screen ASUS UX31 (resolution 1600 x 900), the MacBook Air 13-inch (1440 x 900). Experimental cinema screen showing poor viewing angles.
2 speakers are located at the bottom left and right corner of the machine. Utilities Dolby Home Theater audio to automatically adjust sound settings based on musical genre you’re listening.
Connectivity and webcams
Whether thin notebooks, the S3 gives users two USB 2.0 ports and an HDMI port are located on the back of the machine. Right side has an SD card slot. However, S3 inferior opponents ASUS UX31 by ASUS computer have connecting 3.0 port, mini HDMI and mini VGA.
Webcam 1.3 MP resolution for very bright images. Experiment with Google Instant shows webcam for quite accurate skin tones, the sound is not delayed but blurry when moving objects.
Boot from the regime “cold”
One of the reasons people expect ultrabook is booting and resume from cold mode almost immediately. However, this feature only with SSD-based computers. Aspire S3 20 GB SSD drive, but it is only used as a hibernation partition to save memory to enable quick resumes, not for boot and application load. Activities bootup place with 320 GB hard drive mechanics.
Aspire S3 takes 1 minute 5 seconds to boot into Windows 7 Home Premium, a distance too far for MacBook Air (takes 17 seconds), the Samsung Series 9 (25 seconds).
With SSD hibernation partition, can resume from S3 mode cool with just 3 seconds time.
Performance
Aspire S3 Core i5-2467M processor using 2nd generation Intel processor speed of 1.6 GHz. Machine with 4 GB RAM and 320 GB hard disk rotation speed of 5400 / min. The score of PCMark Vantage Aspire S3 running is 5489. Meanwhile, the MacBook Air with Intel Core i5 1.7 GHz speed and 128 GB SSD reaches 11,230 with Boot Camp. Experiment with Geekbench, the Aspire S3 reaches 3538 points, less than the 5860 MacBook Air achieved.
A disappointing weakness of the machine when the Aspire S3 mechanical hard drive took 3 minutes 35 seconds to copy one folder 4.97 GB capacity, ie the rate of about 23.7 MB / s, a relatively modest pace consuming.
Aspire S3 take 8 minutes 3 seconds to perform a VLOOKUP in OpenOffice, much longer than the MacBook Air takes 6 minutes 6 seconds.
Equipped with Intel HD Graphics, S3 for satisfactory results are not as expected. 3DMark06 test, S3 reaches 3,257 points, 1,000 points higher than the Samsung Series 9 (2,188 points) but also lower levels compared to the MacBook Air that point (4,236 points).
When playing World of Warcraft, S3 averaged 26 frames / second with original screen resolution and performance to be installed at the “good”.
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Software
Acer Deep Sleep software setting lets you set the machine in “deep sleep” after 120 minutes or 480 minutes. Acer Backup Manager; Acer Crystal Eye Webcam; the Acer Games portal and Clear.fi is a multimedia software to share wirelessly.
Battery life
Acer Aspire S3’s battery that can for 6 to 7 hours of use. However, the experiment with the LAPTOP Battery Test (web surfing via Wi-Fi), S3 battery is only to 4 hours 23 minutes, less than 2 hours compared to the average battery life of ultrabook and MacbookAir (6 hours 33 minute). Samsung Series 9 for more battery life to 1 hour, 5 hours 11 minutes. A version of the machine 2nd battery when carrying out experiments also similar battery life (5 hours 25 minutes).
Summary
Aspire S3 has many defects such as design chassis is made of plastic rather than metal. Machines using only mechanical drives, not solid state drives.
Screen machine for poor resolution, no backlit keyboard. With a laptop, there are problems that can bypass but also weak spots can not “compromise” as battery life. Unfortunately, the Acer S3 to encounter this problem.