Acer Aspire S7 Windows 8 Ultrabooks Showcased

Computex hasn't officially begun yet, but the products are already on display, which means that PC makers have started to bring out the press releases for their various items.

The company now getting our attention is Acer, and it isn't for those Windows 8 Full HD tablets that we wrote about just a couple of hours ago. What we are looking at here is a pair of, surprise surprise, ultrabooks called Aspire S7 series. One of them has a display of 11.6 inches in diagonal while the other is larger, at 13.3 inches. Barring the cases, the rest of their specs are nearly the same, down to the native resolution of their respective liquid crystal panels: Full HD (1,920 x 1,080 pixels). We say nearly because the former lasts less on a single batter charge than the latter. It is still a long time, but not as long. To be more precise, the 11.6-inch Aspire S7 will take 9 hours to deplete the battery, while the 13.3-inch one will survive for a maximum of 12 hours.

One of the CPUs detailed here will most probably lie inside Acer's newest creations, along with a few gigabytes of RAM (random access memory), an HDD / SSD /HHD and all the connectivity and I/O one would expect. As for the casings, the smaller ultrabook is housed in aluminum (a metallic unibody design) while the latter has a glossy, sculpted glass cover. That said, prospective buyers shouldn't expect theses things to be overly cheap, seeing as how they lack the low-cost plastic enclosures.

Then again, these machines do have Windows 8 loaded onto them, so they aren't going to be available until October, or whenever Microsoft decides to release the operating system. As such, if Acer plans for the S7 to be the “flagship” offering, it probably doesn't have affordability in mind anyway.

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