Notebooks & Netbooks

[tbritt825]

I absolutely love my Aspire S7.  It is super light, fast and the touch screen is absolutely terrific.  It has a beautiful desing.....

However, after one year, I am trading it in.  The major shortfall is the lack of sufficient SSD.  I would have gladly paid $1300, $1400, $1700, $1800 or whatever to get everything I wanted.  I spend hours on it every day.  So I want to get the right product with all of the necessary capabilities.  Hence, I can't imagine why they don't have an option with 512 SSD or more for that matter.  After searching the entir market, I have found that there are a couuple of other options with much more SSD capacity and mor memory capacity.  However, the overall design is not as good.   Maybe next year.

[finlux]

Hello!

It's difficult from Acer's (or any OEM for that matter) point of view to produce a machine that everybody wants with all the latest features/technology for the right price. A balance needs to be struck!

You could always just buy your own SSD, and fit that inside your S7. Then you'd have the "dream" machine you're looking for!

[SGJames]

Hi do you have the manual for upgrading the SSD inside S7-392?

any mSATA brand recommended?

Thanks.

[mosbergh]

This reply may be too late for you:

I have replaced the SSD with a Samsung EVO840 / 500GB; Samsung also makes anaffordable 1TB device.

The replacement won't be a RAID, and theoretically not as fast as the original drive; in practical use, I haven't experienced any speed issues.

You don't need a manual: First make the Acer-recommended USB bootable backup. Then remove the back shell, and you will see the standard-size M-SATA drive, held down by a single screw. Replace with the new SSD and re-install the back (The middle screw at the spine needs to be firmly seated: it reconnects the power).

Install the system by booting from the prepared USB. then the somewhat tricky part: edit the registry to enable AHCI (google how-to); then re-boot into the S7 BIOSand switch the disk interface from RAID to AHCI.

That's it: good luck!