Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra Ultrabooks at CES 2012
CES is starting to warm up and it seems that Ultrabooks, super-thin and light laptops designed to be your constant companion, are the order of the day. Acer has set the standard high with the announcement that the Aspire Timeline Ultra line will ship this year with Windows 8 on-board.
We’re expecting all the major laptop manufacturers to be focussing on Ultrabooks this year, with Toshiba alrady showing off a Windows 8 prototype pre-CES, but Acer has offered something a little larger, with 14-inch and 15-inch variants of Ultrabook set for later this year
While most Ultrabooks ship with just a hard drive, the Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra line will come with a built-in DVD drive, as well as dedicated GPU, so you’ll be able to replace your older, fatter and heavy notebook with this slim little number.
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However, the real star of the show was the Acer Aspire S5, which is a 13.3-inch Ultrabook that weighs in at just 1.35kg and measures a mere slip at just 15mm thick (or thin depending on how you look at these things).
As with all Ultrabooks we can expect to see a choice of Intel Core processors on offer. The Acer Aspire S5 could well be one of the first Acer notebooks to ship this year with AcerCloud built-in. As the name suggests, this is the company’s push at offering a file streaming and data sharing online solution, not only for Acer users but certainly with benefits for users of their technology.
While it sounds a lot like Apple iCloud, it’s thought the way it shares data means very little is hosted on Acer servers. AcerCloud client software will be made available for a host of platforms, including Windows PCs and Android devices, with DLNA allowing streaming to additional home media devices.
No pricing on the Acer Aspire S5 has been announced, so we’ll need to wait until Q2 2012 before we get a firm idea of the final tech spec and price.
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Adam Thompson09 January 2012
Is the aspire timeline touch screen because after downloading the developer preview of windows 8 it looks like it would have to be to provide a good user experience. It gets annoying trying to log onto my laptop by swiping the mouse down the screen! Windows 8 is heavily based on the GUI of windows mobile.
Report as inappropriateJesse Moore09 January 2012
@Adam Thompson - Windows Phone 7 is not Windows Mobile, it's a completely rewritten O/S. The UI is Metro UI developed by Microsoft and first introduced in 2006 in Windows Zune. Metro UI componenets can also be found in Windows Media Center.
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