 Hi guys, it's Vlad with Average here at A4Berlin 2012 and we're taking a look at Acer's Aspire S7. This is actually a laptop that we first saw at Computex but wanted to come back and take another look at it because this is actually very very impressive in hardware terms and specifications. Firstly because of this amazing thinness that it has. The first time that I took a look at it I thought it was just a tablet with a detachable keyboard but it is in fact a Windows 8 laptop. It runs an Intel Core i5 or Core i7 low voltage processor. This particular one in front of us is a 1.9GHz Core i7 and it has a touchpad, it has a keyboard, it has most laptops so you can unlock your home screen like so. However it also happens to have a touch screen and it works brilliantly well with a capacitive touch screen. It has a 11 inch display, 1366x768 resolution, has really attractive viewing angles as well, that's impressive. It is framed by this Gorilla Glass frame which goes right up to the edge so everything is covered by glass. It isn't too glossy, isn't too reflective and the glass itself is surrounded by this aluminum slash magnesium mixed body which is very strong and very firm. It's extremely impressive and actually makes for a very very beautiful laptop. It has this cross hatch pattern on the top. It is very rigid and very impressive. You've got a few status lights down here, a couple of vents for the processor and the cooling. HDMI port, there's a couple of USB 3.0 ports in fact. Funny enough there's a power button over here on the side. As I say it really reminds you of a tablet, it's so thin. It feels like a really high quality, really premium device that we're looking at here. So physically it's very impressive but there is one thing that we noticed over here and one of the issues is that it's actually a bit of a nightmare to open up. Okay, so just going to look at here. One of the things that we noticed is that while using the touch screen the usual Windows 8 gestures do function. So you've got the charm bar over on the right and you can switch between applications by coming in from the left and bring up the menus from the tops and sides. I'm sure you're already aware of these. Pressing the Windows key switches you between the Metro interface and the standard-ish Windows 7 old school desktop interface. So that's all well and good. However these gestures, the ones that are attached to the touchpad down here at the bottom do not seem to work on this particular model. It's running Windows 8 release preview so it obviously isn't the final software but it is a little bit of a disturbing thing because one of the issues that might pop up here at IFA and generally as laptop manufacturers and tablet manufacturers put together these keyboards is touchpad compatibility for gestures. So for example if you go to the Metro UI you should be able to swipe with two fingers, left and right, but you cannot. So you kind of have to drag your mouse to the edge and it's really not as intuitive. It's nowhere near as smooth or as fluid. It's one of Microsoft's big words with Windows 8 fluidity which is brilliant when you're doing it with your finger and when you're using the touch screen but not so much with the touchpad. So hopefully Asus will sort this out in advance of releasing this laptop on sale. We don't have any release date information. We don't have a price. All we really know is that it's amazingly thin, it works really quickly, it has a really attractive display and a really attractive design and we'd like to see more of it. Actually just a final note to say that the battery life is rated for six hours. We've taken a look over here. It's given us two hours remaining on 28% charge. A few minutes ago it gave us one hour remaining on 35% charge so it fluctuates but that kind of gives us a good idea. It's not going to have the longest battery life in the world because it is so slim and skinny but still a very impressive laptop from Acer. This is the Asus Pire 7 at IFA 2012 Berlin.
 Hi guys, it's Vlad with Average here at A4Berlin 2012 and we're taking a look at Acer's Aspire
 S7.
 This is actually a laptop that we first saw at Computex but wanted to come back and take
 another look at it because this is actually very very impressive in hardware terms and
 specifications.
 Firstly because of this amazing thinness that it has.
 The first time that I took a look at it I thought it was just a tablet with a detachable
 keyboard but it is in fact a Windows 8 laptop.
 It runs an Intel Core i5 or Core i7 low voltage processor.
 This particular one in front of us is a 1.9GHz Core i7 and it has a touchpad, it has a keyboard,
 it has most laptops so you can unlock your home screen like so.
 However it also happens to have a touch screen and it works brilliantly well with a capacitive
 touch screen.
 It has a 11 inch display, 1366x768 resolution, has really attractive viewing angles as well,
 that's impressive.
 It is framed by this Gorilla Glass frame which goes right up to the edge so everything is
 covered by glass.
 It isn't too glossy, isn't too reflective and the glass itself is surrounded by this
 aluminum slash magnesium mixed body which is very strong and very firm.
 It's extremely impressive and actually makes for a very very beautiful laptop.
 It has this cross hatch pattern on the top.
 It is very rigid and very impressive.
 You've got a few status lights down here, a couple of vents for the processor and the
 cooling.
 HDMI port, there's a couple of USB 3.0 ports in fact.
 Funny enough there's a power button over here on the side.
 As I say it really reminds you of a tablet, it's so thin.
 It feels like a really high quality, really premium device that we're looking at here.
 So physically it's very impressive but there is one thing that we noticed over here and
 one of the issues is that it's actually a bit of a nightmare to open up.
 Okay, so just going to look at here.
 One of the things that we noticed is that while using the touch screen the usual Windows
 8 gestures do function.
 So you've got the charm bar over on the right and you can switch between applications by
 coming in from the left and bring up the menus from the tops and sides.
 I'm sure you're already aware of these.
 Pressing the Windows key switches you between the Metro interface and the standard-ish Windows
 7 old school desktop interface.
 So that's all well and good.
 However these gestures, the ones that are attached to the touchpad down here at the
 bottom do not seem to work on this particular model.
 It's running Windows 8 release preview so it obviously isn't the final software but
 it is a little bit of a disturbing thing because one of the issues that might pop up here at
 IFA and generally as laptop manufacturers and tablet manufacturers put together these
 keyboards is touchpad compatibility for gestures.
 So for example if you go to the Metro UI you should be able to swipe with two fingers,
 left and right, but you cannot.
 So you kind of have to drag your mouse to the edge and it's really not as intuitive.
 It's nowhere near as smooth or as fluid.
 It's one of Microsoft's big words with Windows 8 fluidity which is brilliant when you're
 doing it with your finger and when you're using the touch screen but not so much with
 the touchpad.
 So hopefully Asus will sort this out in advance of releasing this laptop on sale.
 We don't have any release date information.
 We don't have a price.
 All we really know is that it's amazingly thin, it works really quickly, it has a really
 attractive display and a really attractive design and we'd like to see more of it.
 Actually just a final note to say that the battery life is rated for six hours.
 We've taken a look over here.
 It's given us two hours remaining on 28% charge.
 A few minutes ago it gave us one hour remaining on 35% charge so it fluctuates but that kind
 of gives us a good idea.
 It's not going to have the longest battery life in the world because it is so slim and
 skinny but still a very impressive laptop from Acer.
 This is the Asus Pire 7 at IFA 2012 Berlin.