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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Acer's first Ultrabook, the Aspire 3951

Earlier this year, Intel introduced at the Computex trade show in Taipei, the concept of 'Ultrabook'. The chip giant believes that in laptop land still a lot to be gained in terms of weight, design and speed. Therefore, the company wants to work more closely with manufacturers to improve quality. Their laptops A few years back Intel did the same, but when small, compact laptops - which led to the rise of netbooks.

An Intel Ultrabook according must be no thicker than 20mm and not cost more than $ 1,000. In addition, such a device must have a SSD or other storage media with similar performance on board, so the system can boot or can be removed quickly from sleep

Intel was assisted in his announcement by Asus, a concept Ultrabook presented: the UX21 . Yet this is not the first model that will reach stores: that honor goes - as far as is now known - to Acer.

In early August leaked  the first images of Acer Ultrabook, officially known as the rather dull name Aspire 3951. Appearance of the notebook is very similar to the MacBook Air, and the hardware of the two thin laptops is quite similar.

Tweakers.net got an engineering sample of Acer Aspire 3951 to take a good feel to the test. We must immediately report to the tested configuration with SSD 120GB will not be sold. Benelux The table below lists the configurations that will be for sale. Well here

Acer Aspire 3951 - Models
Processor Core i5 2467M Core i7 2637M Core i5 2467M
Clock 1.6GHz (2.3GHz Turbo) 1.7GHz (2.8GHz Turbo) 1.6GHz (2.3GHz Turbo)
Memory 4GB DDR3 4GB DDR3 4GB DDR3
Storage 320GB HDD + 20GB SSD 500GB HDD + 20GB SSD 240GB SSD
Available October November October
Price € 799 € 999 € 1,199
Because we tested configuration, the stores will not reach, this review is a little more concise than you're used to, many will test does not match that of the models that you eventually become available. We look at whether Intel gets its objectives and we also we make the inevitable comparison with the 13 "MacBook Air.Earlier this year, Intel introduced at the Computex trade show in Taipei, the concept of 'Ultrabook'. The chip giant believes that in laptop land still a lot to be gained in terms of weight, design and speed. Therefore, the company wants to work more closely with manufacturers to improve quality. Their laptops A few years back Intel did the same, but when small, compact laptops - which led to the rise of netbooks.

An Intel Ultrabook according must be no thicker than 20mm and not cost more than $ 1,000. In addition, such a device must have a SSD or other storage media with similar performance on board, so the system can boot or can be removed quickly from sleep

Intel was assisted in his announcement by Asus, a concept Ultrabook presented: the UX21 . Yet this is not the first model that will reach stores: that honor goes - as far as is now known - to Acer.

In early August leaked  the first images of Acer Ultrabook, officially known as the rather dull name Aspire 3951. Appearance of the notebook is very similar to the MacBook Air, and the hardware of the two thin laptops is quite similar.

Tweakers.net got an engineering sample of Acer Aspire 3951 to take a good feel to the test. We must immediately report to the tested configuration with SSD 120GB will not be sold. Benelux The table below lists the configurations that will be for sale. 

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