Pros
- Super thin and handsome looking
- Excellent performance for an Ultrabook
Cons
- Relatively short battery life
- Pretty expensive
Manufacturer’s Description
Radically thin, supremely strong, scratch resistant and easy to clean: White Gorilla Glass 2 makes the beauty of the 13.3" Aspire S7 Series gleam at an ultra-thin 11.9 mm. The 11.6" model, with its sleek aluminum unibody, is just 12.2 mm slim. Either Ultrabook gives you the freedom to go anywhere, carefree and looking fabulous.
Performance
| Overall Performance | |
|---|---|
| Worldbench Score | 72 |
| Worldbench Version | 8 |
| Battery | |
|---|---|
| Battery Life | 3:54 (hh:mm) |
| Start Up | |
|---|---|
| Start Up | 11 seconds (lower is better) |
| Office Productivity | |
|---|---|
| PCMark 7 Productivity Suite | 2506 score (higher is better) |
| Web Browsing | |
|---|---|
| Peacekeeper | 2356 score (higher is better) |
| Storage Performance | |
|---|---|
| File Compression | 124 seconds (lower is better) |
| PCMark 7 Storage Test | 5373 score (higher is better) |
| Power Usage | |
|---|---|
| Idle power usage | 10.5 Watts |
| Content Creation | |
|---|---|
| Image Editing | 240 seconds (lower is better) |
| Audio Encoding | 260 seconds (lower is better) |
| Video Encoding | 188 seconds (lower is better) |
| Gaming | |
|---|---|
| Dirt Showdown, High Quality, 1920x1080 | 13.8 Frames per second (higher is better) |
| 3DMark 11, 1920x1080 Extreme | 222 score (higher is better) |
| Civilization V, Leader Benchmark, Low Quality, 1366x768 | 642 Frames per second (higher is better) |
| Civilization V, Leader Benchmark, High Quality, 1920x1080 | 10.3 Frames per second (higher is better) |
| Civilization V, Late Game View, Ultra Quality, 1920x1080 | 5 Frames per second (higher is better) |
| Dirt Showdown, Low Quality, 1366x768 | 35 Frames per second (higher is better) |
| Civilization V, Late Game View, Low Quality, 1366x768 | 11.4 Frames per second (higher is better) |
| Civilization V, Leader Benchmark, Ultra Quality, 1920x1080 | 8.1 Frames per second (higher is better) |
| Civilization V, Late Game View, High Quality, 1920x1080 | 6 Frames per second (higher is better) |
| 3DMark 11, 1280x720 Performance | 661 score (higher is better) |
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