Hopefully we’ll see a North American release date soon. The Aspire S5 was the ultrabook that took CES 2012 by storm and was heralded as the only real competitor to the MacBook Air.

Considering how good the MacBook Air is, that’s a pretty tall order. It shall be interesting to see if this ultrabook lives up to the hype. You can read more here.

-RP

For those of you that don’t know, this UltraBook is deemed to be one of the few that can actually stand toe to to with the MacBook Air. It debuted at CES 2012 and they said that it should be arriving in Q2 this year.

I will probably buy one of these myself and compare it to the MacBook Air I already have and see how it fairs. You can get more details about the Acer Aspire S5 UltraBook here.

You can also checkout the FaceBook fan page here.

-RP

Of all the anouncements, I found the Acer Aspire S5 to be the most interesting. This ultrabook stands the best chance based on it’s hardware specs, to go head to head with the MacBook Air hardware. Notice I say hardware, not software.

This is because when it comes to operating systems, you’re always going to have one side loving Apple and the other side loving Windows. So if you’re a loyalist either way, the hardware might not make a difference to you. However if you are willing to use either Mac OS X or Windows 7, then I suggest waiting for the Acer Aspire S5 to hit stores and giving it a try.

You can check out more details here.

-RP