Reviewed: Acer Aspire S3 – beefy but boring

The progress of technology is astounding. Every couple of years, computing power doubles. We keep packing more features into mobile devices. Features such as GPS, Accelerometers, Quad Core Graphics and resolutions so high you cannot distinguish the pixels anymore.

My cellphone now has a faster processor than the Windows 7 machine I’m typing this review on! Notebook computers are getting lighter, faster and have more battery life than ever before.

So you’d think that these days PC manufacturers would have figured out how not to fuck up the small things.

Small things such as a basic build quality, input devices, speakers, microphones, the power supply and bundled software.