Acer Aspire S3 vs Lenovo Ideapad U300S ultrabook comparison

[bumshka21]

Too long. Otherwise great

[koroush18]

Just wondering what advantage there is of USB 3.0 currently? E.g. Are there many peripherals for USB 3.0 yet?

[gadgetjm]

@koroush18 of course there are. I'm just copying 40 GB of content via USB 3.0 on a USB 3.0 enabled external HDD. It's going to take about 10-12 minutes. On USB 2.0 it would take way way longer

[iamtomalmond]

I don't understand why you'd compare the cheapest to the most expensive?

[gadgetjm]

@iamtomalmond they are both ultrabooks, thus are competitors. and the SSD version of the Acer S3 is not a lot more cheaper than the Lenovo

[iamtomalmond]

@gadgetjm I don't understand why you'd want to pay more for a laptop with a smaller SSD to be honest. Is it such a bad thing that it has a hybrid HD when it doubles the disk space and still keeps its form?

[gadgetjm]

@iamtomalmond you're completely missing the others things, you don't pay just for storage, you pay for the whole bundle.

the problem with the S3 is that you don't have a proper hybrid storage. it would be cool if you had let's say a 60 gb ssd for the operating system and main apps, an the hdd for the rest. that's what i have on my lenovo x220.

[gadgetjm]

@iamtomalmond on the acer, you get the OS installed on the HDD, thus the acer loads slowly and it performs overall way slower than other ultrabooks. the 20 GB SSD is not directly accessible, you can't have the OS on that, they work like a flash drive works with windows 7 to boost performances. and it does not help much. that's why the solution is poor.

i'll have the written review for the acer s3 in a short while on netbooklive and i'd love to have you around and discuss on the matter ;)