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Acer Aspire S 13 review: An affordable, fingerprint-resistant MacBook Air alternative

Acer Aspire S 13 review: An affordable, fingerprint-resistant MacBook Air alternative

Technically, you can buy an Acer Aspire S13 in the United States for just $580, and the laptop typically comes in black.

Realistically, just forget about both of those things. I'm reviewing the Acer Aspire S13 in white -- which starts at $800, £650 or AU$1,399 -- because it's the one doing something particularly neat.

Many laptops this thin don't have great performance. Many laptops this powerful don't have great battery life. Many laptops this price skimp on the storage and memory you need. And the ones that don't -- our favorite laptops -- typically are made of smooth metal and glass that attracts loads of glare and gobs of oily fingerprints.

The 13-inch Acer Aspire S13 -- the white one -- doesn't suffer from any of those weaknesses.

The Acer Aspire S13. Also pictured: an amazingly photogenic cushion.

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At 3.0 pounds and 0.57 inche thick, with a dual-core 2.3GHz Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of solid-state storage and a crisp 1,920x1,080-pixel resolution IPS touchscreen, it's as thin, fast and spacious as the competition. (I tested the $1,000 Core i7 model with 512GB of storage -- impressive specs for the price.)

In fact, the Aspire S13's battery life is better than most. We got 9 hours, 45 minutes in our standard streaming video drain test, and I found I could typically work 6 to 7 full hours before needing to recharge. That's just a stone's throw away from the battery life we get with a MacBook Air, only this Acer has a far better screen and speakers.

But the white Acer Aspire S13 also does something I've never seen before. It's a thin metal touchscreen laptop that doesn't trap light and grease. The pure white matte aluminum surfaces simply don't pick up fingerprints. (Aside from a fine coating of dust, our S13 looks just as good today as when we took it out of the box weeks ago.) And where most every single laptop manufacturer covers their touchscreens in sheets of mirrorlike glass, the S13 has an antiglare coating.

Not a lot of ports on the S13, but they're the ones you'll generally need.

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(The cheaper black versions of the laptop aren't as fingerprint-resistant, since they use brushed aluminum, which can trap oils, for their keyboard deck.)

By the way, the Aspire S13's Dolby-branded speakers are well above average -- excellent, even -- for a laptop this thin. There's not much in the way of bass, and setting it on your lap muffles the downward-facing drivers. But on a solid table there's a lot of volume and some remarkably clear mids.

The only things that keep the Aspire S13 from graduating into the upper echelons of worthy laptops are the same that plague so many thin Windows machines: a stiff, shallow keyboard, and a touchpad that can't be trusted not to jump around while you're typing. They're bearable, but as a writer, I'd probably pick a different PC.

It's rare to find an antiglare touchscreen display on a laptop.

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It also doesn't help that the laptop has uneven backlighting under the keyboard, notably thick bezels around the screen (at a time when bezels are starting to shrink), a USB-C port that can't charge the laptop and a sixth-gen Intel Core processor instead of the new seventh-gen chips (though that might not be a big deal). This Acer is a little behind the times.

But if you can live without a few creature comforts, the Acer Aspire S13 is still a solid choice.

The ability to resist fingerprints, and the ability to resist glare, will never go out of style.

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Porsche 911 Turbo S Proves Internal Combustion Isn't Dead at Pikes Peak

Porsche 911 Turbo S Proves Internal Combustion Isn't Dead at Pikes Peak

"Keep it low stress, keep it fun," David Donner breezily says about three and a half minutes into the film above. He might be describing a casual BBQ that he's organizing or a weekend game of golf. But he's not. He's talking about driving up the perilous Pikes Peak Hill Climb, all 12.42 miles of it. And he's talking about trying to do so while setting a record time.

Hold Donner's cheery words in mind and then skip forward a dozen or so minutes. He catches a slide to stop the car from falling into an abyss. Utterly unfazed, he then accelerates hard, plunging deeper into the a cloud. The car is consumed by a white fog. There's another bend ahead, another drop on the outside. But where? When to switch pressure from accelerator pedal to brake pedal? Swap too late and the car won't be able to stop on the slippery asphalt. 

How the hell do you "keep it low stress, keep it fun" in this situation? Just watching it gives me the collywobbles and has my heart rate at a level that no medical professional would ever describe as relaxed. It is phenomenal.

Let's rewind a bit. This film is the story of David Donner's drive in the 100th running of the famous Pikes Peak Hill Climb earlier this year. Donner has won Pikes Peak outright three times and remains the last American to be crowned King of the Hill. This year he wasn't aiming for the overall, instead hoping to reclaim the record he once held for the fastest production car up to the finish line at 14,115 feet above sea level.

The weather was atrocious.

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The plan was hatched along with renowned Porschemagazine 000. And the car chosen for the task was a Porsche 911 Turbo S. It really was a production street car as well, licensed to drive on the road. Champion Motorsport prepared the car, with technical director Tom Pelov overseeing operations and Victor Scanapico carrying out the modifications with real artistry. As you'd expect, various additions and alterations had to be made to meet the safety regulations and these included a cage (built to NASCAR specs in NASCAR country), a competition seat, the deletion of all carpets (for fire safety), a fuel cell, a fire extinguisher system and electrical cutoff (with switches so beautifully set into the central cup holder that they look like a factory option).

There were just a couple of performance-enhancing modifications that could be made, the first of which was a new exhaust from Sharkwerks. This was installed mainly to help with turbo speeds at the higher altitudes. Incidentally, some cars apparently had to replace turbos on a daily basis but the factory items on the Turbo S remained bulletproof throughout.

The ECU was also tuned and the car ran on race fuel, but other than that it was stock. No changes were made to the suspension, brakes, transmission, all-wheel-drive system, wheels or aerodynamics. Even the tires were street-legal Michelin Cup 2 Rs.

Actually, there was one other change that might have helped shave a couple of psychological tenths: the rather inspiring livery. Pete Stout, editor of 000, and his team came up with the idea to put pages of one of the magazine's features (about a 930 Turbo) onto the car. Very fitting. And just as you might assume you need an EV to be competitive on Pikes Peak these days, so too is there a narrative in media that digital is the only way forward and "print is dead." As such the combination of an internal combustion engine car and a successful print magazine is rather a pleasing union.

The 911 arrived at Pikes Peak at the start of the week with just 40 miles on the clock. It had covered 340 miles by the time it returned, under its own steam, to Donner's garage at the end. No consumables other than fuel and tires were replenished, nor did it require any alignment work.

Looks like a race car, but it's largely stock under that livery.

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Yet its performance was hardly slow and steady. The weather for the 100th Pikes Peak was atrocious, which realistically put the record out of reach. However, in terms of the pure 2022 competition, the inclement conditions undoubtedly swung the odds in both the driver's and the car's favor.

Using all his skill and years of accumulated knowledge, Donner put in an incredible performance. I can only assume that driving into that thick cloud must have been like running full pelt into dense white smoke and counting your paces in order to dodge the fire you know is in there. But even on the relatively well-sighted lower slopes the commitment and speed is spectacular, especially given the clearly slippery surface. And given the speed it's very easy to forget that the car is a production road car. For just this reason I love it when the film switches to the over-the-shoulder camera angle, as the view is of an almost entirely standard road car interior. The trim is all there on the dashboard along with the familiar central touch screen showing the tire pressure monitoring display. The everyday competition car.

The result for Donner and the Turbo S was a sensational second place. Not in class. Second place overall. They were only beaten by Robin Schute in his wild Unlimited class Wolf TSC-FS (which has Turbo S-rivaling 600 horsepower but weighs only a touch over 1,100 pounds). Obviously the Exhibition class win was Donner's as well, the Turbo S over half a minute clear of the second place Tesla Model 3.

In fact, even with the atrocious weather, Donner was a mere 16 seconds shy of the record he set out to beat. Next year, maybe. Perhaps with even less stress and more fun. 

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Woot's 1-Day Deal Knocks $60 Off Sony's High-End WH-1000XM5 Headphones

Woot's 1-Day Deal Knocks $60 Off Sony's High-End WH-1000XM5 Headphones

If you're looking for the very best over-ear headphones on the market, according to CNET reviewer David Carnoy, Sony's WH-10000XM5 are the pair to beat right now. The 1000XM5 are the latest in Sony's top-of-the-line series of noise-canceling headphones, and right now you can pick up a pair on sale. Woot is offering the first discount we've seen on these headphones, and currently has them available for $340, which is $60 less than full price. This deal is only available until 9:59 p.m. PT (12:59 a.m. ET) tonight, and there's a chance it may sell out before then. 

These over-ear Sonys claimed a top spot on our list of the best headphones overall for 2022. At over $300, even on sale, they're certainly not for those who are looking for a budget-friendly option. But if you want the very best of the best, and don't mind paying more to get it, these are the headphones for you.

Equipped with eight internal microphones and dual processors, the 1000XM5 boast some of the most effective noise-canceling capabilities on the market right now. They also have four beamforming microphones and a convenient speak-to-chat function that temporarily pauses your music once you start talking.

Thanks to Sony's LDAC technology, they also support high-resolution audio, even over Bluetooth, and upscale your compressed music files with AI assistance. They feature intuitive touch controls, and will even automatically pause your music when you take the headphones off. They can also pair with multiple devices at once, and boast an impressive battery life of up to 30 hours on a single charge.

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Sony QD-OLED First Look: The OLED TV Competition is Heating Up

Sony QD-OLED First Look: The OLED TV Competition is Heating Up

I'm not ready to declare Sony's QD-OLED the best TV ever. Not yet, anyway. But based on what I saw during a private demo in New York last month, I can say it's shaping up to be a strong contender.

Sony's QD-OLED TV, the A95K series, is hands-down the most anticipated television of Sony's 2022 lineup (which has a lot of new high-end features and picture quality extras, from a remote finder to mini-LED backlights). Using this new screen technology, Sony promises improved color and viewing angle compared to current, conventional OLED TVs -- which already deliver the best picture quality on the market. I finally got the chance to see QD-OLED in person, and it seems to deliver on that promise.

Sony engineers showed me a 65-inch A95K set up next to an A90J, the company's best 2021 OLED TV, as well as Sony's professional-grade OLED reference monitor. They played a series of the same test patterns and video on all three displays simultaneously, similar to how I review TVs. The most remarkable difference I saw was deeper, more saturated color of red, for example a woman's dress and buildings at night, on the QD-OLED. Differences in other colors were less obvious, but my overall impression was that QD-OLED did indeed have better color.

Sony's A95K QD-OLED TV, top right, next to the 2021 A90J OLED (top left) with Sony smaller OLED reference monitor below.

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I saw slightly better fidelity from extreme off-angle on the A95K -- the A90J showed more color shift as I moved to the extreme edges, away from dead center -- but you'd have to have a really crappy seat on the couch to notice. The QD-OLED also showed slightly smoother treatment of film grain, which Sony's engineers claimed was a benefit of the way QD-OLED creates light. Based on Sony's demo, I'd say QD-OLED TVs like the A95K have the potential to outperform "regular" OLED models from Sony as well as from other TV makers like LG.

But here's the caveat: Sony says the A95K it used in the demo isn't a production version. It's an "early prototype," so the final shipping version could be different. Also, Sony's demos highlighted the A95K's strengths, but I still caught a couple of weaknesses where the older, non QD-OLED actually looked better. The skin tone in one scene was a bit closer to the reference on the A90J, and the screen of the A90J rejected more ambient light than that of the A95K, which had a grayer, not-exactly-black finish. The latter difference impaired the QD-OLED's contrast under bright lights but wasn't an issue under dark, home theater-style lighting.

Seen from extreme angles the QD-OLED (foreground) maintained color fidelity a bit better than the standard OLED (far right).

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It's worth mentioning that highlights didn't look appreciably better on the QD-OLED, and shadow detail between the two was also similar. Sony's engineers claimed the QD-OLED does a better job in near-black shadows, but none of their demos showed it as far as I noticed.

I'm looking forward to checking out QD-OLED TVs like the A95K and Samsung's S95B in my lab, with my own material, and the opportunity to measure and compare them against LG's latest 2022 OLED TVs. Until then, I'm not ready to declare a winner.

Sony didn't specify when I could get a review sample, although it did say the A95K and its other 2022 TVs would ship in spring. It also has yet to officially announce pricing, but indications peg the 55-inch at $3,000 and the 65-inch at $4,000, more than double the price of my current favorite 2021 OLED TV, the LG C1. If those indications prove correct, the Sony A95K will also be significantly more expensive than Samsung's S95B QD-OLED TV, which costs $2,200 for the 55-inch size and $3,000 for the 65-incher.

Samsung Display's new OLED panel combines OLED elements with quantum dots to boost color and other image quality attributes.

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The myriad types of similar-sounding TV terms can get confusing, so bear with me. OLED technology delivers the best TV picture quality available today. Every OLED TV you can buy right now, and most upcoming 2022 models including 2022 Sonys in the A80K and A90K series, use the conventional OLED display panels, not QD-OLED. They rely on yellow and blue OLED materials to create "white" light and filters to mix in other colors, a technology known as WRGB OLED. 

The new panels in the A95K series use a different manufacturing method that combines a blue OLED base layer with red and blue quantum dots, hence the "QD." The A95K is one of two QD-OLED TVs announced for 2022. The other is the Samsung S95B, which I saw in person very briefly.

Read more: Samsung OLED TV First Look: Why It Will Probably Beat Samsung's Own QLED TVs

The introduction of QD-OLED brings competition to the big-screen OLED TV market. A company called LG Display currently manufactures all of the OLED TV panels available today and supplies them not only to LG Electronics but also to Sony, Vizio, Philips, Panasonic and others worldwide. 

Sony said it was unable to disclose information about the panel vendor for the A95K, but rumors point to Samsung Display, which first announced its QD-OLED ambitions in 2019 with an $11 billion investment in a new factory in Korea.

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As befits a flagship model the A95K also offers the full monty of Sony's 2022 TV features, including a bundled webcam, a remote finder feature, improved gaming featuring HDMI 2.1 inputs, VRR and auto HDR tone mapping for PlayStation 5 and the Google TV operating system with a hands-free mic.

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1-Day Refurb iPhone and Apple Watch Discounts to Save You Hundreds (Update: Expired)

Update: This deal has expired. Be sure to stay tuned to CNET Deals for all the best deals as they happen.

Staying up to date with Apple tech can be expensive as new models are released every year. While the iPhone 13 Pro might top our list of best phones and the Apple Watch Series 7 is the best smartwatch around, not everyone wants to pay through the nose for an upgrade. If you'd prefer to save some cash, going for a previous-gen model or a refurbished device is the way to go and Woot has you covered with a huge selection of refurbished models on sale today only.

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First Look With the New, Unveiled DeLorean Alpha5

First Look With the New, Unveiled DeLorean Alpha5

This story is part of Plugged In, CNET's hub for all things EV and the future of electrified mobility. From vehicle reviews to helpful hints and the latest industry news, we've got you covered.

The DeLorean is back from the future but also from the past, in the brand's first true relaunch since its heady, infamous days in the early 1980s. After getting a close look at a prototype of the new Alpha5, I think it has a chance of standing out from a crowd of high-end electric GT's that is gunning for Tesla's domination of luxury car sales. Here's what intrigued and surprised me about this vehicle.

If you aren't a car buff, you would never guess this car has any relation to the original DeLorean DMC-12.

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A tasty exterior

The Alpha5 is a real looker, as was the original DMC-12, but in a completely different way. If you aren't a car buff you'd never guess this car is related to the original DeLorean. It's a much larger car (what car isn't, compared to models 40-plus years ago?) still featuring gullwing doors, but they're now massive enough to reveal both rows of seats at once.

The face and rump of the Alpha5, key brand statements for any car, have no correlation to those of the DMC-12, nor does the side profile, which is curvaceous and organic compared to the DMC-12's angular origami. Italdesign heavily detailed the ends of the car without chaos of a C8 Corvette, to my eye. The original DeLorean was also designed by Italdesign back when it was under the leadership of legendary founder Giorgetto Giugiaro.

If you're a fan of shooting brakes, the sort of low and lean station wagon that Brits and Europeans love, a future version of the Alpha5 will be in that form; DeLorean calls it a Plasma Tail. My brief peek under the drape told me it should be first out the gate, not second.

What DeLorean calls a Plasma Tail others call a shooting brake body style. Either way, its what I'd open with if it were my company.

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What moves you

There's not as much to get excited about in the powertrain, partly because details are still scant and partly because of my personal theory that electric car powertrains are more alike than combustion car powertrains ever were, thanks to electric power's uniform excellence. The Alpha5 will be a dual motor all-wheel drive arrangement with an expected range of 300 miles and a 0-to-60-mph time of 3 seconds. There are presently no plans to offer range variants.

Have a seat and a hug

Things really get interesting when the Alpha5's doors go up. The cabin has a strong wraparound bow shape with two LCD screens, the larger of which can display a modern digital instrument panel or a perfect replica of the DMC-12's analog instruments. Clever. 

The Alpha5's digital instrument panel can perfectly mimic that of the original DeLorean.

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Then there's DeLorean Sense: It's a connected band you can give to loved ones or (really close) friends that allows their heartbeat to be displayed on the console screen, their body temp to become your seat heater setting or their hug to be delivered to you  via power seat bolsters. I stared at DeLorean CMO Troy Beetz for a moment after he described these; I don't think he was kidding. Apple does a couple of these tricks with its watch, but it definitely hasn't figure out the hug thing yet.

A connected band would enable others to send their heartrate, temperature or hugs to you as you drive your Alpha5, presumably in bliss.

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Like every car under the sun, the Alpha5 can import your phone contacts but this car will do more than use them to support calls and texts: As you drive, people in your list will be pinned on the live map screen to remind you when they live or work nearby, perhaps rekindling fading friendships. It's an interesting mashup of location, social and check-in that Google Maps on Android does to a lesser degree.

On top of the dash are two narrow LEDs that will both glow when you're heading toward a location you've configured as a special place, be that home, a vacation spot or the office (please don't). DeLorean calls this a True North indicator and, honestly, it's the most out there of a basket of edgy technology visions inside this car.

The bottom line

The Alpha5 will go on very limited sale in 2024 and there's no pricing yet. That said, the company openly targets cars like the Lucid Air, Mercedes EQS sedan and Tesla Model S Plaid, so it's not a bad guess that the Alpha5's base MSRP will be widely around $125,000. DeLorean plans to select a US-based manufacturing partner that checks off at least one of the new boxes for the complicated rules around federal EV tax credits if the car's over-$55,000 price didn't exclude it first.

I probably have a somewhat irrational soft spot for the Delorean brand, as far removed from the heady early 80s as it may be. The original car had a certain Apple-ness about it, captured our imagination rather than generating resentment of its well-heeled buyers, and had a truly American flavor - even though it was the product of Italian design and British manufacturing.

The Alpha5 is the product of a different company from a different era and lacks the larger-than-life leader that was John DeLorean. (That's no slight against the new company's leaders, who have their own controversies... but likely none related to illicit suitcases.) This car is a good example of a fertile moment in automotive history that most of us won't see again.

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Disney streams fireworks to celebrate being halfway to Halloween Friday night

Disney streams fireworks to celebrate being halfway to Halloween Friday night

Disney is streaming it's Halloween fireworks from the Magic Kingdom at Disney World this Friday night. Disney's Not-So-Spooky Spectacular, and is being used to celebrate the halfway point to Halloween. The fireworks are narrated by Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas, and are part of part of the company's Disney Magic Moments effort to keep fans entertained while its theme parks are closed indefinitely during the spread of COVID-19.

The fireworks show, which debuted last fall during Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party, features songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas, ghostly projections on the castle and of course Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy. You can check out the 12-minute show at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on YouTube.

Disney's "Halfway 2 Halloween" celebration also features on Disney's Magic Moments website and includes Halloween cookie decorating, spooky art projects, the Dapper Dans singing Grim Grinning Ghosts, a costume challenge and more.

You can also watch Disney World's Happily Ever fireworks, and here's when Disneyland and Disney World might reopen following COVID-19 closures.

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