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This week at Computex, Acer has been bringing the
Windows 8 fury right out of the gate with two lovely new tablets, one of
them the 10.1-inch W510, the other the 11.6-inch W700. Both of these
devices are Iconia branded Acer machines with cradle and/or keyboard
packaged along with, acting here at first as desktop replacement units.
We’ll have to see how well they perform before we make any judgements,
especially given how much we still need our notebooks already in this
tablet-heavy modern mobile world we live in – will these devices change
the way we compute?Iconia Tab W700
First have a listen in on what the Acer Iconia
W700 packs: an 11.6-inch full HD 1920 x 1080 pixel display, 8 hours of
battery life, and Dolby Home Theater hardware (and software) built in.
This tablet has a single USB 3.0 port on its side, while the dock it’s
packaged with contains three USB 3.0 ports. The tablet has one microHDMI
port as well as a fully fledged Thunderbolt port, volume up/down, power
button, and headphone jack. When you’ve got the device ported on its
dock you lose access to your power jack and single USB 3.0, but retain
access to your HDMI and Thunderbolt ports.
The tablet also has its own screen lock switch,
vents to keep the whole unit cool, and a 5 megapixel camera on the back
with its own microphone. This tablet is mostly aluminum but does have a
lovely strip of rubbery-plastic at the head of the back so that you’re
not sliding away on smooth surfaces. The front of this tablet also
features a single home button with the new Windows logo on it. This unit
does NOT have a packaged keyboard whereas the 510 unit does – if you
want a keyboard here, you’ll need to use one of your USB ports or
Bluetooth to make it happen.
Iconia Tab W510
This device may appear similar to the tablet
listed above, but it’s made to be marketed entirely differently. Here
we’ve for a 10.1-inch IPS display without a confirmed pixel x pixel
definition and a release with a packaged keyboard instead of a plain ol’
dock. This keyboard allows 295 degree rotations of the tablet and has a
single USB 2.0 port on the right and a power port on the left. The
tablet has its own microHDMI port as well as microUSB, microSD, and SIM
card ports as well. You’ve got a volume up/down button, speakers on
either side with Dolby Home Theater hardware and software inside, and of
course Windows 8 right out of the box.
This device is bumped down compared to the tablet
listed above, but does have some value-added features such as an 8
megapixel camera and a slightly more everyday situation size. And that
SIM card slot might prove useful as well – oh, and the tablet has 8
hours of battery life, or 18 hours with the dock. That’s power!
Could this be the dawn of the real Netbook killing
Tablet? We shall see soon enough! Stick around for more details as they
arrive!
Source: slashgear.com
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