The Acer Aspire S3 is an Ultrabook-style laptop with a difference. It’s quite light, portable and good-looking, but also incorporates a dedicated graphics processor, making it one of the few laptops in its class that could be called a gaming device.
What’s the price of this sort of versatility? The Acer Aspire S3 with the Nvidia GeForce 735M cost £799 (around US$1280, AU$1470) at launch, but that was a good few years ago now, so you can pick this up at some very competitive prices.
Read on to see if we still think the Acer Aspire S3 is worth buying in 2017.
New look
The Acer Aspire S3 has been around in various guises for a few years now, but the 2014 edition is quite a departure from the old models. Where the original Aspire S3 was quite rightly regarded as a bit of a MacBook Air rip-off in its looks, the new version looks a lot closer to the Acer Aspire S7, an Ultrabook with a snazzy glass lid.
In order to keep costs down, the Acer Aspire S3’s lid isn’t made of glass, but it still looks and feels as if it is. The aluminium frame is lacquered with several layers of …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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