Expert Reviews check out the Acer Aspire V5-571 – a really good looking netbook that runs Windows 8. However, they were a little disappointed with the performance:

The V5 makes a good first impression. It looks every inch the high-end laptop and is significantly smarter than the V3. Our review sample had a smooth, matt silver finish on the screen bezel, keyboard and wrist rest, and is a slim 23mm thick. Its 15.6in screen has the usual 1,366×768 resolution, but colours are both bright and vivid, and our test photos showed excellent contrast and plenty of detail.

Unfortunately, though, that’s more or less where the V5’s appeal ends, as our hopes were soon dashed when we started to use the laptop for more heavy-duty tasks. 4GB of RAM is plenty for Windows 8, but with a last-generation Intel Core i3-2367M processor running at 1.4GHz, the V5 performed dismally in our multimedia benchmarks, scoring only a measly 23 overall. Even at this low price, this is below what we’d expect; you’ll be ok with office tasks and web browsing, but we wouldn’t recommend any image editing and video editing is right out.

Check out the full review here.

PC Pro have a hands on review of the Acer Aspire S7-391 – one of the first Windows 8 models in the Aspire series:

There’s a USB 3 port on either side of the base, along with a microSD slot and a headphone socket. A micro-HDMI port on the back is the only video output, but that’s to be expected given the thin chassis.

But the main thing that strikes you is just how much is crammed into such an incredibly small and light chassis. It’s less than half an inch thick and weighs 1.3kg, yet this tiny beast packs a Core i7 with Intel’s HD 4000 graphics, 4GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. Whatever we tried on the S7, it responded instantly – including prodding the screen, which very quickly became second-nature with the screen so close to hand.

Check out the review here:

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2012/10/30/acer-aspire-s7-391-review-first-look/

The AspireOneUser.com website has been updated with a new look and new blogging software. There are more improvements to come over the coming months, so they’ll be reported in the news section.

We’ve moved all of the forums over to http://www.laptop-forums.com, where you’ll find a specific Acer Aspire section complete with downloads, technical support and tips. Please do check us out if you haven’t already. All of the username from the old forums still exist over there, so no data has been lost.

Hope you enjoy the new look!

Hasn’t been must news lately worth posting, but the forums are still going strong. (thanks to mods keeping it in ship shape)
All comments on the site have been removed, to much spam, I might test out the facebook comments plugin at some point.
I have just created a Facebook fan page (see on the right), press the like button 🙂