Acer Aspire S7

Acer Aspire S7

The Acer Aspire S7 is only 12.9mm thick when closed and weighs only 1.3kg

Acer Aspire S7

The Acer Aspire S7's lid is made of Gorilla Glass 2 with a white base. The body itself is made of aluminum

Acer Aspire S7

The screen can fold back 180 degrees to lie completely flat. You can then use the touchscreen while it's lying flat on a table, if you like

Acer Aspire S7

On the right edge you'll find a single 3.5mm headset jack, a USB3.0 port, an HDMI output and the proprietary dongle port (which looks like a mini-DisplayPort but isn't)

Acer Aspire S7

The Acer Aspire S7 Ultrabook has a 10-point multi-touch enabled touchscreen with full support for Windows 8 gestures

Acer Aspire S7

The keyboard is missing a dedicated row of function butons. The numeric row doubles up as F1-F12, while the top row of letters have additional functions for controlling brightness, sleep, keyboard backlighting and Wi-Fi

Acer Aspire S7

Acer Aspire S7

The Acer Aspire S7 has an electroluminescent backlight which adjusts itself to ambient light conditions

Acer Aspire S7

Some of the keys on the keyboard had to be rearranged thanks to the lack of a function key row. The tilde character is next to the Caps Lock key, and Fn keys have merged with the number row

Acer Aspire S7

In addition to the physical ports, Wi-Fi a/b/g/n is built in

Acer Aspire S7

On the left, you'll find the power socket and button, a USB 3.0 port, and a SD card slot

Acer Aspire S7

The combination of white glass and aluminium looks great on the Acer Aspire S7

Acer Aspire S7

The Acer Aspire S7 is powered by a dual-core Intel Core i5-4200U processor running at 1.6 GHz

Acer Aspire S7

The Acer Aspire S7 is thin and light, but makes space for additional Ethernet and VGA ports using a dongle. The hinge lets the screen fold back 180 degrees

Acer Aspire S7

The Acer Aspire S7's 6280mAh battery is rated for 8 hours of runtime

Acer Aspire S7

An included dongle gives you full-sized VGA and Ethernet along with an extra USB2.0 port

Acer Aspire S7

The dongle is small, but you have to remember to carry it everywhere you go. It's better than a lot of other Ultrabooks which don't have these ports at all

Acer Aspire S7

The speakers carry Dolby Home Theater branding and are positioned towards the front left and right corners of the bottom panel

Acer Aspire S7

The Acer Aspire S7 is built with premium materials and looks great from any angle