everyone knows that the market for thin and light notebooks is a place that must be fought for by the military, and manufacturers have also invested a lot of resources in it, but there are actually not many products that can be remembered by the market. If you can make a name for yourself in the environment of storm, you must have two tricks. For example, the "traffic leader" of Acer has always grasped the needs of young users and workers with a balance of design, configuration and price, and has become a star model in the thin and light notebook market. Since
is a star model, it is naturally expected to obtain a timely upgrade. So can the new Acer Extraordinary S3 (hereinafter referred to as S3) meet the current increasingly introverted working Shura?
, pay attention to the real needs
Before starting to appreciate and test S3, we might as well summarize together what young workers have for thin and light laptops.
needs no need to say that it is a tool that everyone works for their lives. The stronger the better the performance, the more urgent it is, so that you can handle heavy tasks with ease. In addition, what other characteristics do workers need?
A fact that may be ignored: Now everyone's pursuit of resolution is getting higher and higher. This is not only due to the influence of the mobile intelligence era, but also the pursuit of image quality, but also the workplace workers at high resolution can open more windows to process information and effectively improve work efficiency.
In order to meet the needs of users' workers, the screen resolution of S3 reaches 2.5K. The system version after Windows 10 has already supported high resolutions quite well, so we can see delicate text display in S3. With the system's multi-tasking feature, you can easily switch between multiple programs without the need for an external screen, and obtain and process corresponding information. In addition to the high resolution characteristics, the screen equipped with S3 also has about 90% screen-to-body ratio, 1200:1 ultra-high contrast, 300nits brightness and 100% sRGB wide color gamut. In actual use, we can feel that no matter what kind of lighting environment we are in, the S3 screen can deliver an accurate and comfortable display effect.
In addition to the screen performance, battery life is also the focus of everyone's attention. Although the power supply of laptops is now very light, if you can throw the charger at a fixed location such as the office, and charge it every day like a mobile phone, the user experience will naturally be better. In order to meet the needs of workplace users who do not say but do exist, Acer put a 56Whr four-cell battery in the S3 and charged the machine through the Type-C interface on the machine. What other demands do you have in addition to the screen performance and battery life of
? The number of heat dissipation and interfaces should be the last "big devil". Let’s first look at the heat dissipation. After all, in the environment of inverted , "996" should be common in laptops. To verify that the S3 equipped with a dual-copper tube and dual-fan cooling system equipped with a three-dimensional air duct design, the best way is to copy the machine.
We open AIDA64 for load testing. When we first started the test, we could see that the processor rushed to 28W instantly and then floated between 25-28W, which proves that the processor is already operating at full speed, and thanks to the help of the cooling system, the power output is quite stable.
S3 not only brings us a safe enough heat dissipation effect, but also has a very rich number of interfaces. We can see that there are two Thunderbolt 4 interfaces on the left side of the body, one HDMI interface, and one USB3.2Gen1 interface that supports shutdown and charging. On the right side of the body, there is a USB3.2Gen1 interface and a headset integrated interface. The existence of these interfaces should be rich enough to cope with the current application. You can also use S3 as the center of the desktop to build a richer set of office equipment.
Craftsmanship design , User experience plus points
has summarized the daily needs of young users and workers. Next, let’s take a look at what ergonomic designs Acer has implemented in S3.If you get started with S3, you will find that when you turn on the S3, the body will be slightly raised. This design, called "buttocks", not only helps the cooling system to function, but also forms a small slope that is more ergonomic and can have a better feel when inputting. In addition to improving the feel of
, the S3 keyboard has many highlights. First of all, it supports three-speed backlight adjustment, which can provide backlight according to everyone's needs for easy input. Secondly, its OceanGlass environmentally friendly trackpad is made of glass-like material, with excellent feel and optimization of the trackpad by the system after Windows 10, which makes the operating feel very good. Finally, its power and fingerprint recognition are two-in-one button designs, which allow everyone to better use WindowsHello to ensure data security.
Speaking of data security, how much help can S3 help us in our work? Based on the current environment, I believe everyone will have a high demand for the quality of their laptop videos. The S3, which was upgraded during this period, will naturally not fall behind. Its MIPIFHD front camera uses TNR (time domain noise reduction) technology, which can greatly reduce noise and present full HD picture images. At the same time, the S3 is equipped with AcerPurifiedVoice technology with AI noise reduction technology, which has also significantly improved the sound quality during video.
Finally, S3 is also equipped with an IntelKiller Wi-Fi6EAX1675i wireless network card to ensure network quality. Friends who know some knowledge of hardware should be familiar with Killer's high performance. This Killer network card also supports the latest WiFi 6E specifications to ensure network strength. Although the current office does not necessarily realize the WiFi6 wireless network, "prepared for any accidents" is a golden rule for workplace users.
has powerful performance, ensuring the efficiency of use
Carefully appreciate the design of S3, we can find that it has indeed thought a lot about users and workers. So can it also deliver good performance in the most basic performance hardware? Friends who are familiar with the operation of the notebook market should know that a product is upgraded generally starts with the performance hardware part, and S3 is no exception.
We "verify the correctness" through Master Lu . We can see that the S3 sent to the PConline evaluation room this time is equipped with a 12th generation Core i7-1260P processor, which is equipped with 16GDDR44266MHz memory, and a 512G capacity of magnesium solid-state drive. From the model we can learn that this processor is a recently launched low-voltage processor by Intel . I believe everyone is very interested in its process and parameters, so let’s take a look first.
Friends who know the development of the processor industry in recent years should know that Intel has implemented the "large and small core" design on the 12th generation Core, and the i7-1260P processor is naturally a product of this idea. It has 4 P cores and 8 E cores, of which the P core is designed with dual threads and the E core is designed with single threads. That is to say, the i7-1260P processor has an architecture of 12 cores and 16 threads. Combined with the increasingly mature 10nm SuperFin process, Intel hopes that the launch of the new 12th generation Core mobile version processor can inject new impetus into the thin and light notebook market.
So is Intel's approach to "P core performance, E core efficiency improvement" effective? First, we invite CineBench to pass the test of the R20 and R23 versions to a preliminary experience of the S3 equipped with the Core i7-1260P processor.
From the above picture we can see that S3 has achieved single-core 622cb and multi-core 3942cb in R20.
was switched to R23, while S3 scored 1524 points for single core and 9470 points for multi-core.
combined with these two data, the Core i7-1260P processor equipped with S3 has achieved "balanced improvement". On the one hand, it inherits the consistent single-core advantages of Intel processors and provides capital for smooth operation in high-load scenarios; on the other hand, its multi-core performance has been significantly improved, which means that it does improve operational efficiency in situations such as rendering that require multi-core performance. You can joke that Intel is "retro" or even "revival", but the performance improvement is indeed there.
Since you have run through CineBench and don’t run down the standardized update GeekBench, how can you make sense? In this test, S3 finally handed in 1675 points for single core and 10078 points for multi-core, which is also a joy to see.
In order to give everyone a clearer understanding of the strength of the 12th generation Core i7-1260P processor processor, we will introduce a series of test software that imitates practical applications, and have conducted a more comprehensive survey for everyone.
is first Corona1.3, and it takes 2 minutes and 28 seconds to complete BenchMark, which is not much different from some high-performance notebooks with power consumption walls.
Next is Blender. It took 5 minutes and 26 seconds to complete BenchMark, and the results are also remarkable.
Finally, we simulated the daily working state and selected a PR project for rendering. When S3 outputs 1080P50 frames H.264 high bit rate material with a duration of about 1 minute, it takes 1 minute and 20 seconds. After
understands the processor performance through various tests, how can it miss the Iris Xe core graphics it comes with? This time we don’t play virtual games, we just started working on the popular online game "CSGO" among workers, and learned about its performance through actual combat.
with 1080P resolution, full image quality, and texture streaming and enhanced character contrast are disabled, S3 can basically perform more than 90 frames. Considering the screen parameters equipped with S3, this performance is enough to make everyone feel happy in their spare time, and smoothly change their mood and then devote themselves to work.
At the same time, we also tested solid-state drive . In the CDM test, we can see that the sequential reading speed of this solid-state drive is 3735.3MB/s and the sequential writing speed is 3360.2MB/s. From the data point of view, this solid-state drive running on the PCIe4.0 standard will not restrict the performance of the processor and can effectively ensure operational efficiency.
simple design, a versatile choice for workplace
Finally, let’s take a look at the appearance design of S3 together. This bare metal machine weighs only 1.25kg, and the frame is made of aluminum alloy material. Combined with three colors: Cyber Yellow, Pearl Silver and Night Sea Blue, S3 not only has a wide range of applicability, but also can meet everyone's needs for appearance and durability.
In order to further utilize the material advantages of aluminum alloy material, Acer used the method of drilling and cutting edge lines to handle the body lines. After carefully looking at the details of the body, we can feel that although the S3 is still relatively sharp in visually, the feel is still relatively smooth. Such appearance and workmanship seem generous in the workplace and do not lose the price at all.
Summary
After years of market education, when you buy digital product , you will not pay single attention to performance, and focus more on "using experience", a word that sounds tall and in fact has many factors hidden behind it. In order to meet the needs of the established population, Acer has indeed put a lot of effort into the new extraordinary S3. Based on the actual office scenario application, Acer's efforts can indeed achieve results.
In the normalized environment of the epidemic, young workplace users have increasingly demand for notebooks. If you have this demand, then the upgrade of the experience brought by Acer's new extraordinary S3 is indeed worth having.
