14 DAY TRIAL // The Ultrabook market can safely say it has kicked off now that Acer held an official launch even for its Aspire S3 down in Taiwan, ready to see if this much-hyped tablet contender will have the success people hope.
Ultrabooks have been making the news a lot lately, what with Intel and its partners lauding the initiative on a regular basis.
As far as products go, however, little, if anything, has been palpable, since it is in October than ASUS, and others, plan to make their debut.
Acer decided not to wait so long, though, having officially launched the Aspire S3 in Taiwan, giving it the price of NT$34,900 ($1,149/847.40 Euro).
Simply put, Ultrabooks are ultrathin laptops that are even thinner than the sort of slim notebooks people may have encountered in the past.
After all, if a product is to rival a tablet in portability, it needs to be about as thin as it while still featuring a physical keyboard.
On to the specs, the Asprie S3 has a display size of 13.3 inches and runs on an Intel Core i5-2467M ULV (ultra low-voltage) central processing unit.
The native resolution of the panel is 1,366 x 768 pixels (HD), while storage space is provided by a hard disk drive (320 GB HDD) or a solid state drive (240 GB SSD).
4 GB of RAM exist, with little or no possibility of changing the one module for another, though it should be enough to back the CPU's 2.3 GHz clock.
Other specifications include Bluetooth 4.0+HS, HDMI (for streaming to an HDTV or monitor), 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi , two USB 2.0 ports and 1.3 megapixel webcam. A memory card reader and a combined headphone/mic jack exist as well.
All in all, the laptop might have a bit of trouble enchanting consumers, since its price is a bit higher than the US$999 (736.77 Euro) Intel had set as the standard ultrabook price.