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amazon Acer Aspire S5 reviews
Advantage:
+ The compact design and thin, lightweight, high performance
+ Competitive price.
Disadvantages:
– The connection port on the back causing inconvenience for users
– Mirror Screen viewing angle is limited
– The keyboard is not backlit
– Low battery life
Design
Acer Ultrabook – the Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 S5 and – is designed quite compact and Aspire S5 is designed to continue this trend.
S5 entire coated black, lid is made from aluminum and magnesium alloy chassis, silver Acer logo is unique decorative accents on a smooth, flat lid of my laptop. Usually the Intel logo, Microsoft Windows will be posted on the palm rest, but this laptop they were expelled from the familiar position and put the bottom of the machine along with the serial position of the Windows operating system.
Acer continued to make delicate designs S5 becomes more prominent with curved beveled edges. This means that the USB connector, HDMI with full size just can not be mounted on the edge, only a power button (very thin and difficult to press), an SD card reader, a headphone jack on both sides of S5. The connection with larger size panels are integrated into the rear. This panel appears when you click the button controls.
Aspire S5 is not equipped with a backlit keyboard, this is a surprise because many computer manufacturers have tied up this feature with their laptop products. Subsidence of the keys on the keyboard are not high and the layout of the Acer keyboard nor favored by many, notably the directional keys are very small, they are also used to adjust screen brightness and sound measure.
Aspire S5’s touchpad was produced by Elan has ample space for multi-touch gestures to manipulate by two, three or even four fingers. The touchpad on the laptop using the Windows operating system has been significantly improved in recent years and the quality of them are close to the touchpad on the quality of Apple’s MacBook. With precision and the ability to meet the Aspire S5 is high touchpad is a typical example.
Function
1366×768 resolution screen is probably one of the main weaknesses of this Ultrabook. Viewpoints from either side is not too bad though screens or reflective. However, the vertical viewing angles are quite bad. This will limit you can tilt tilt and can still look clear, it can be a problem when in crowded places such as on airplanes.
Besides panel connectors can be controlled by mechanical, other important features (less prominent) is configured stored on this laptop. Aspire S5 is equipped with two 60GB SSD drive, install RAID 0. Setting up RAID 0 significantly improve the speed, efficiency without affecting the storage space, but the biggest drawback is the system’s RAID 0 the possibility of errors will be doubled. Even if only one of your SSD broken you lose all your data.
As usual, this Acer laptop is also equipped with “technology professional audio adjustments” with Dolby Home Theater. The sound settings can be adjusted via the control panel software with optimized presets for music, movies and games. It does not really improve the sound, but it’s good enough for an Ultrabook, the adjustment feature helps a lot when we watch movies.
MagicFlip panel I / O includes two USB 3.0 ports, HDMI port, Thunderbolt port. This Ultrabook Acer equipped Thunderbolt port, a connector rarely appears on computers running the Windows operating system. So far in addition to the computer running Apple’s OS X we just saw on the laptop Asus G75VW Thunderbolt port (only available in certain markets).
Like many other computer manufacturers, Acer also continues to launch their products to market laptops with software of third parties, some of which can be considered as the bloatware ( “bloatware” is a saying that refers to software as new versions of them are increasing … capacity to increase at an alarming rate! there are no more beneficial to users, whereas they also consume more resources system (storage, CPU processing power or RAM)). However, this definition depends on the software utility that gives users.
Performance and battery life
Because RAID 0 set up the Aspire S5’s performance is quite impressive in the charts related to the access to the SSD. Check with PCMark7, S5 has set a new record with a score of 6019 PCMarks not yet reached a ultrabook this. Much higher than the Samsung Series 9 4489 PCMarks with faster CPU and SSD.
Assuming the RAID setup also makes boots faster, takes about 11 seconds to Aspire access the Windows logon screen, two seconds faster than the model Lenovo IdeaPad U300s second.
Besides setting up RAID, S5 is a fairly standard equipment in the line of Ivy Bridge Ultrabook, it uses Core i5 CPU with 4GB of RAM and integrated graphics. This is the reason why Acer laptop only deliver graphics performance inadequate. You can still play some games on this laptop but can be very difficult to turn it into a gaming laptop. Also there is a obvious advantages of this laptop is very fast downloads of games due to two SSDs in RAID 0 is set.
The battery life of the Aspire S5 is disappointing when only reached 4 hours and 31 minutes, not impress many with an Ultrabook Ivy Bridge CPU equipped and SSDs. This was verified by running a video on the machine to test, the experts of Cnet Asia already running a standard definition video until the laptop runs out of battery. Testing was conducted after turning off Wi-Fi connection, turn off the sound, reduce screen brightness to 50%. This result is only 15 minutes longer than the Aspire S3’s battery life, the product is also disappointing because the battery life is too low.
where can you get a Acer Aspire S5 online
Acer Aspire S5-391-73514G25akk 13.3″ LED Ultrabook – Intel Core i7 i7-3517U 1.90 GHz-ASS5-391-9880 ULTRABOOK -I7-3517U 1.9G 4GB 256GB 13.3IN W7HP: Buy it now
Acer Aspire S5
Processor: Intel Core i5-3317UM, 1.70 GHz, 3 MB cache
RAM: 4GB DDR3
Storage Drive: 128GB SSD
Optical drive: No
Screen: 13.3 “HD LED backlight, 1366 x 768 px
Graphics Card: Intel HD 4000
Sound Card: Integrated
Ports: HDMI, 2 x USB 2.0, 2 x USB3.0
Thunderbolt DC-in Line-out / Headphone (3.5mm) SDHC Card Slot
Webcam: Yes
Battery: 4-cell Lithium Polymer 2310 mAh battery, 6.5 hours
Size: 15.0 mm x 324.0 mm x 227.0 mm
Weight: 1.2 kg
Operating System: Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64 bit
