Acer has officially revealed its newest addition to its Ultrabooks line up. Known as the Aspire A5, this 13.3 inch notebook is a successor to the Aspire S3 which was released back in September 2011.
The Aspire S5 builds upon the S3’s reputation and is claimed to be the world’s thinnest ultrabook – measuring just 15 mm at its thickest – down from 17 mm which was achieved with the S3. The device however, still weighs in at 2.97 pounds – which is the same as that of the Aspire S3.
Acer has shied away from releasing official pictures and spec sheets of the notebook. However, what they have revealed is that this would be the first Ultrabook to come with an Intel Thunderbolt port – a new I/O interface that debuted with the new Macbook Pro’s last February. This port allows data transfers speeds of up to 20 Gb/s. For lesser mortals, there is support for USB 3.0 as well as an HDMI port.
Doing the number crunching bit would be an Intel Core processor (details awaited). The amount of RAM too has not been revealed. As for storage, it is natural that the Ultrabook would need to resort to SSD’s for this purpose. Actual capacities have not been revealed though.
The S5 is expected to ship sometime in Q2, 2012 at an unannounced price. Its predecessor the S3 hovers around the $900 mark and it is safe to assume that the S5 too would be priCed at around that range – if not slightly higher.
