Saturday, May 7, 2011

Acer Icon Tab W500: technical review and

The Acer W500 Tab icon has been called since it was announced a revolutionary tablet, in fact looking at the pictures you may notice a small detail, the physical keyboard, the real peculiarity launched by Taiwanese home for this model, which sparked a race to recover between other producers in the same industry that have adapted to this technical device with additional accessories equivalent.

Obviously the original model is the Asus Transformer, pioneer of the genre, but Acer icon thanks to some tricks you can classify it as the first true model, with its dual function tablet-laptop is the result of technical innovation of the year, leaving the box with the ability to implement an optional keyboard to the tablet to make it exactly like that of a standard laptop.

Acer has provided a tablet then the potential good, a technical device that characterizes it and makes it look like a few of its kind, as well as offer it on the market at an affordable price for the many functions offered, these three factors very unusual for the second generation Tablet, which is struggling to be original in a convincing way.

By analyzing the specifications of the new Acer Icon Tab W500, we can see now bright 10.1-inch display with 1280 x 800 pixel resolution, the better AMD C-50 dual-core 1 GHz, the available RAM is 2 GB above-average offering from the competition high, Radeon HD 6250 graphics card, flash memory, 32 GB, all based on Windows 7 Home Premium, refurbished and reprogrammed for the graphic tablet versions of the various terminals that implement it.

Hardware equipment of all respect for Acer, for its tablet, choose the best components and an operating system reborn after recent missteps committed in both the smartphone tablet, implementing a series of measures to help solve minor bugs that were stained quality of products from Microsoft.

Turning to the main innovation of this tablet, the system of coupling with the physical keyboard is definitely a gimmick successful, it must be said, however, to be honest, this news has a small blemish for more negligible in most cases, or that the angle of inclination of the tablet compared to the keyboard support is unique, so we can adjust the angle of the screen at will but use only one set, for more excellent, this small flaw is due to the coupling system fixed snap that place the tablet into the slot and arranged l0 fixed in that position, similar systems studied by the manufacturers of accessories, you can instead place the tablet on a hinged support, ensuring mobility corner of the screen, the variable that in hindsight would have Acer able to study better.

The overall evaluation of this new Acer Icon Tab W500 is still very positive, having been one of the proponents of this new line could open in the future a hybrid between netbook and tablet, partially successful right now but surely, with a careful study, not perfect in great detail, going to create a high performance terminal and much more versatile, combining the touchscreen and portability of the tablet, performance and missing some hardware, like the keyboard and ethernet inputs, netbooks.

The price for this new Acer icon is € 599 for the basic version without 3G internet connection, while the full version of the figure rises to 649 €, a little too much for a tablet but takes advantage of the newness of the integrated keyboard and many other devices engineers that make it unique and justified spending so important, that comes in price levels for the new Apple iPad 2, which still manages to sell so amazing while not bringing new revolutionary than the first model in the series.

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