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    Acer Aspire S3 Ultrabook Owner's Lounge

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by scottyinco, Dec 8, 2011.

  1. scottyinco

    scottyinco Notebook Evangelist

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    I just purchased an Acer Aspire S3-951-6464 from Costco today. I see a seller on ebay selling 8gb (4gb x 2) of memory for this "ultrabook". Anybody taken the cover off this machine and identified where the memory modules are installed?

    So far I like this machine. It's very fast.
     
    scottyinco, Dec 8, 2011
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    scottyinco Notebook Evangelist

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    I took the back cover off, the only things inside that can be upgraded are the wireless card (1/2 size) and hard drive (7mm drive height). The battery is also replaceable by opening the back cover and removing a few screws. Nothing else inside is standard or user replaceable.
     
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  3. kojack

    kojack Notebook Prophet

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    the one thing i do like is you can replace the ssd unlike the macbook.
    nice work acer.

    Sent from my SGH-T989D using Tapatalk
     
    kojack, Dec 10, 2011
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  4. kingyr

    kingyr Notebook Consultant

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    So does anyone own this machine?

    My partners got an i5 version of this and it gets hot. during idle it sits at 67-71 deg. definitely wasn't like this when we purchased. So was wondering if a re-paste will help?
     
    kingyr, Jan 16, 2013
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