This is the new Acer Aspire S5 Ultrabook. Looking a lot nicer than the original S3 in my opinion. There’s a good range of ports including, for the first time on an Ultrabook, Thunderbolt. All the ports are hidden behind an electrically driven raised panel.
Because it’s due for availability in Q2 2011 it’s likely to be based on the Sandy Bridge processor. We saw an undefined 1.7Ghz CPU in the device manager though so maybe availability (and a little time-slip) means this really is going to be an Ivy Bridge Ultrabook. The appearance of Thunderbolt hints towards that too. On the demo device we saw 8GB of RAM and an SSD marked up in the device manager as ‘LITEONIT LMT 128M3M.’ There was no indication of battery life . Wi-Fi is based on an Atheros module.
The weight is 1.35KG and the maximum thickness is 15mm.
Post list:
- Thunderbolt
- 2x USB (including USB3.0)
- full size HDMI (No VGA)
- Full size SD card slot
- Headset port
A unique addition to the S5 is the way you access its I/O ports. There are USB and HDMI connections next to the Thunderbolt port, all of which are at the back of the ultrabook and accessible by a door that slides open and closed, Acer call this the ‘Magic Flip’. The cool thing about it is that the opening mechanism is powered and lifts the laptop up, accompanied by a futuristic noise. This new cool design looks really competitive to Apple Macbook ! Check out the short video below you will get the idea.
No comments:
Post a Comment