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Acer Iconia Tab W500

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Acer Iconia Tab W500 Reviews

PCWorld

06/2012

7.0/10

Acer Iconia Tab W500

Hybrid designs are not new in the world of tablets, but they aren't exactly common either. The Acer Iconia Tab W500 tablet is a slate-style machine--all of its guts are behind the screen, and it can stand on its own as a tablet--but it also comes with a keyboard dock for occasions when you want a laptop-style experience. Unfortunately, rather than offering the best of both worlds, the W500 presents you with a lot of compromises. For this tablet, Acer chose an AMD processor rather than the standard Intel Atom, and this decision yields some performance benefits. Paired with 2GB of RAM and an AMD Radeon HD 6250 graphics chip with 256MB of dedicated video memory, the 1GHz AMD C-50 does an excellent job of running Windows; the tablet was responsive, and it outperformed the Intel Atom Oaktrail-based Fujitsu Stylistic Q550. This processor-and-graphics combo also provided strong multimedia playback. It capably handled all of my 720p video files, and even my PowerPoint with an embedded video. The 32GB solid-state drive, on the other hand, feels parsimonious, especially in view of how much space Windows 7 Home Premium occupies. An SD Card slot provides additional expansion room, which is likely to be useful especially for storing files. A huge bezel frames the 10.1-inch display, which runs at 1280-by-800-pixel resolution.

CNet

12/2011

6.0/10

Acer ICONIA Tab W500-BZ467

Although CNET didn't review the Acer Iconia Tab W500 BZ467, we did review the Acer Iconia Tab W500 BZ841, which is the same tablet except for one little detail. The BZ841 comes with Windows 7 Professional, while the BZ467 includes Windows 7 Premium. Windows tablets have been around for years, in the form of slates and convertible laptops with touch-screen lids that rotate and fold down over the keyboard. To date, many of these have been disappointing, largely because they failed on either the software or hardware fronts, or both. The Windows OS is simply not designed for fingertip (or even stylus) input, and the CPUs used to power most Windows tablets have been so underpowered as to make these devices mostly useless. Stepping into the ring following the launch of Apple's second-generation iPad is the Acer Iconia Tab W500 . Similar to Lenovo's (still MIA U1) Hybrid and the Asus Eee Pad Transformer, the 10.1-inch W500 consists of a touch-screen slate and a separate keyboard dock. When combined, the two halves form something close to a traditional laptop. The W500 is $549 with Windows 7 Home Premium, or $619 with Windows 7 Professional. Both versions have 2GB of RAM and a 32GB SSD.

DigitalVersus

07/2011

6.0/10

Touchscreen Tablet Reviews

In the jungle of newly available touchscreen tablets, Acer has decided not to differentiate the names of its models all that much and is marketing both the Iconia Tab A500, tested and approved by DigitalVersus, and today's patient, the Iconia Tab W500. The difference of this one letter does however represent a real difference between the two models, with the A500 running on Android and the W500 on Windows 7. Acer, then, has gone for a computer OS on this mobile product. The architecture is radically different with the Iconia Tab W500 coming with an AMD C-500 CPU clocked at 1 GHz and not an ARM type core, a Windows button to launch the start menu, 32 GB of memory, 2 GB of RAM and the Premium version of the Windows 7 operating system. There's a whole lot of connectivity available here, with 2 USB 2.0 ports, one of which is used to connect the base of the tablet to its keyboard dock, an MMC/SD/SDHC card slot, a network port and an HDMI out. It also has two camera sensors: a 5 Megapixel with LED flash on the back and a 1.3 Megapixel on the front. The Acer Iconia Tab W500 has an RRP of £449 or £529 with the keyboard dock. At 970 grammes, without the keyboard dock, the Iconia Tab W500 is on the heavy side for a tablet.

CNet

05/2011

6.0/10

Acer Iconia Tab W500P-BZ841

Windows tablets have been around for years, in the form of slates and convertible laptops with touch-screen lids that rotate and fold down over the keyboard. To date, many of these have been disappointing, largely because they failed on either the software or hardware fronts, or both. The Windows OS is simply not designed for fingertip (or even stylus) input, and the CPUs used to power most Windows tablets have been so underpowered as to make these devices mostly useless. Stepping into the ring following the launch Apple's second-generation iPad is the Acer Iconia Tab W500 . Similar to Lenovo's (still MIA U1) Hybrid and the Asus Eee Pad Transformer, the 10.1-inch W500 consists of a touch-screen slate and a separate keyboard dock. When combined, the two halves form something close to a traditional laptop. The W500 is $549 with Windows 7 Home Premium, or $619 with Windows 7 Professional. Both versions have 2GB of RAM and a 32GB SSD. (Acer also makes a keyboard-less Android version, called the Iconia A500.) In the case of the Acer W500, we saw a lot of potentially good ideas, but the overall effect was undone by half-baked physical design.

TechRadar

03/2011

6.0/10

Acer Iconia Tab W500 review

Tablet or notebook? It's a question not only for the new Acer Iconia Tab W500, but for anyone looking to buy a new portable PC at the moment.Tablets are clearly all the rage; you only need to look at the excitement surrounding the launch of the Apple iPad 2. Many perceive these tablets as holding the key to moving mobile computing forward. The problem is, tablets aren't particularly productive devices. They're about watching movies or listening to music. They're about surfing the web on your sofa, or reading a book in a hammock. Tablets are about entertainment. They're rarely about actually creating the content that they are consuming.Anyone looking to do work or create content on the move is generally limited to using a standard computer.There is a place for showing reports using a tablet, or for extreme working conditions where a keyboard isn't practical, but in the most part, we're limited to netbooks and notebooks.This is something Acer is looking to challenge with the release of the Iconia Tab W500. Here is a machine that bridges the gap between the aesthetics of a tablet and functionality of a netbook.

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