Acer's Touch-Based Aspire S7 Ultrabook Arrives Soon

[exfileme]

Acer's sleep Aspire S7 Ultrabook with an optional touchscreen will arrive next month.

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[killerclick]

I'm guessing most will ship without touchscreens.

 

[greghome]

starting at $1,465 (£1,149.99).

At that sort of price, I'd rather grab a Thinkpad T430U........or better yet a Thinkpad X1 Carbon.......

Better build quality, water drainage system, a more professional look, more security features and a keyboard nipple
Who would get the Acer ultrabook over the slim Thinkpads :/

If someone hates the whole Thinkpad look, I'd say get an Asus Zenbook,
It would be a better buy compared to this .

 

[sync_nine]

I'll pass the buck and wait for a year till i climb the ultrabook bandwagon
Hopefully by then manufacturers will gain some more production efficiency and prices of such laptops will drop below $1000
IMO these things are overpriced for the performance they give. If you ask me, a fairer price would be $800-850....till then i'll just wait or stick with my current laptop.

 

[Guest]

Acer's sleep Aspire S7 Ultrabook with an optional touchscreen will arrive next month.

As a heads up, I think you meant sleek.

Touchscreen on a laptop never seems to work. :/

 

[CaedenV]

I really wonder what the price difference would be between adding a touch screen vs adding an intigrated leap motion sensor... I mean if the retail sensor bar costs ~$70, then surely an integrated bulk purchase solution would be 1/2 that right? Anyone know what the cost of the touch part of a touch screen costs?

 

[kcorp2003]

d'oh... and i was waiting for this one.

 

[belardo]

If you are going to pay the ThinkPad or Mac price... might as well buy the real thing.

Surprised the apple police hasn't gone after ACER yet.

 

[icemunk]

Way to pricey. I want something with similar specs, for $800.. 8GB of ram would be nice too.

 

[damianrobertjones]

It seems to be like this:

Desktops: Price will stay the same. No need to change
Laptops: Ultra cheap will stay ultra cheap or shift forward £150
Ultrabooks: Stay close to £800/£1000
Tablets: Fill in the middle and low end with Wacom devices around £1000

All bases covered

 

[tntom]

Peoples perception of what an expensive laptop is, seems to have shifted. Is this a result of Apples rise, or that fact that MBP seem to be the benchmark for all others by journalists now?

I feel like when I read Laptop reviews any more I am watching a really lame version of Top Gear. A lot of really expensive cars I can't afford. And affordable cars being panned for not being like the 100K+ cars.

I love TopGear, for the record.

 

[DavidC1]

UK includes 25% VAT so it'll likely end up at 1149 dollars rather than 1149 pounds.

I see a possible resurgence of Acer with the S7. 12.5mm thick, awesome design, FullHD touchscreen is a step up from the much touted Asus Zenbook Prime. It doesn't have critical flaws like on the S5 where it mechanically raises the device to reveal ports.

 

[eddieroolz]

Ultrabooks still need to mature. The prices and feature set is still a bit high and sparse.

 

[back_by_demand]

OK, let me get this straight
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It has a screen 1 inch bigger, but lower resolution than a Surface Pro, also has the same CPU, but cannot convert into a tablet
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And they are selling it for $1465


Nope, still don't get it...