Pros: Crazy thin. Best screen I've seen anywhere outside of the retinabooks(but basically the same). Nice fast i7 Extremely shallow-typing(low-throw) keyboard. Allows me to type deadly fast. and again!!! - Best display in a non-mac possibly ever.

Cons: you might get muurdered due to jealousy only 4gb of ram bad location of tilde and caps lock keys, but I'm getting used to it... And I'm a person that sets caps lock to control and uses control(caps lock)-C to exit insert mode in vim. so I press caps lock at least 500 times per day.

Overall Review: a little hassle to remove the windows EFI garbage, but after I figured that out it's golden with ubuntu. Don't keep windows on this beauty, put linux on it and you'll have the envy of all your tech friends.

Pros: it looks cool

Cons: I had this laptop, the highest end model, for about 6 months. I actually bought it from a retailer, and I ended up exchanging it repeatedly. I went through 4 of them before finally exchanging it for the new sony haswell ultrabook. And everyone else I know with this acer s7 had the same problem... THE KEYBOARD! you just cannot type a sentence on this thing without producing double-characters. What exactly do I mean... press j and you'd get jj and so on, all day every day; I dealth with it for 6 months, while using an external keyboard when I had real work to do. Acer dropped the ball BIGTIME.

Pros: the touchpad is by far the best of any ultrabook. the keyboard is second maybe only to some lenovos, but just as good. I'm a unix programmer, and I can go beast-mode on this keyboard all day. the SD card slot on the side allows a card to be inserted flush with the case!

Cons: a tiny amount of light-bleed at full brightness, but really nothing to complain about. it's generally a great display.

Overall Review: compatible with linux if you're willing to compile your own kernel. I have mine configured with arch linux, custom iwlwifi kernel(thanks intel), also with the patched intel_pstate, and I'm loving it. Of course you won't have to do any of these custom kernel things when these are present in the mainline kernel(probably soon).