A video comparison between two 13.3 inch ultrabooks, the Acer Aspire S3 and the Lenovo IdeaPad U300S, with details on all the important aspects you must be aware of: exterior, hardware, features, performances, battery life and prices.
More on http://www.netbooklive.com and http://www.ultrabookreview.com
Just wondering what advantage there is of USB 3.0 currently? E.g. Are there many peripherals for USB 3.0 yet?
koroush18 2 months ago
@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
gadgetjm 2 months ago
I don't understand why you'd compare the cheapest to the most expensive?
iamtomalmond 2 months ago
@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
gadgetjm 2 months ago
@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?
iamtomalmond 2 months ago
@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 2 months ago
@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 ;)
gadgetjm 2 months ago