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We have collected 4 reviews of the Acer Iconia Tab W500. Experts rate Acer Iconia Tab W500 6/10. Reviewsor.com helps you find reviews, best prices, user reviews of the Acer Iconia Tab W500 and Acer Touch Pad.
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.
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.
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.
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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Acer ICONIA TAB W500-BZ467 10.1 Tablet, AMD Dual-Core C-50 (1.0GHz), 2GB DDR3, 32GB SSD, Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit (Silver) | $510.99 | See it |
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Acer Iconia Tab W500-BZ467 10.1 inch TFT Tablet Computer with 2GB RAM, 32GB Solid State Drive, Front/Rear Camera, Windows 7 Home Premium, Silver | $519.99 | See it |
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Acer Iconia Tab W500-BZ467 10.1-Inch Tablet (Silver) | $526.48 | See it |
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Acer ICONIA Tab W500-BZ467 Tablet PC AMD C-50 1GHz 2GB DDR3 10.1 LED Multi-Touch Screen 32GB SSD AMD Radeon HD6250 802.11bgn Bluetooth HDMI Webcam Windows 7 Home Premium | $526.99 | See it |
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Acer Iconia 10.1" W500 32GB Wifi 1.0GHz | $529.95 | See it |
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Acer ICONIA W500-BZ467 LE.RK602.047 Tablet PC - AMD Dual-Core C-50 1.0GHz, 2GB DDR3, 32GB SSD, 10.1 Multi-Touch Display, Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit, Dual Webcams | $536.99 | See it |
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Acer W500bz467 W500-bz467 Iconia 10.1" 32gb Android Tablet | $539.72 | See it |
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Acer Le.rk602.047 W500-bz467 Amd C Series C-50 ( 1mb 2l Cashe 1ghz Ddr3 1066 M.. | $544.43 | See it |
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Acer Icona TAB 10.1" Tablet PC | $545.94 | See it |
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Acer Acer Icona TAB 10.1" Tablet PC | $545.94 | See it |
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Acer ICONIA Tab W500-C52G03iss 10.1" LED Tablet PC - Fusion C-50 1 GHz | $549.43 | See it |
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Acer 10.1" W500 32gb Wifi 1.0ghz Mpn: Le.rk602.047 | $574.99 | See it |
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Acer ICONIA Tab W500P-BZ841 10.1 Tablet, AMD Dual-Core C-50 (1.0 GHz), 2GB DDR3, 32GB SSD, Windows 7 Professional 32-Bit (Silver) | $574.99 | See it |
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Acer LE.L0803.047 10.1-Inch Tablet Computer | $601.24 | See it |
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Acer Iconia Tab W500p-bz841 Le.l0803.047 C-50 2gb 32gb Window 7 | $603.05 | See it |
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Acer Icona TAB 10.1" W Series Tablet PC | $614.94 | See it |
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Acer Acer Icona TAB 10.1" W Series Tablet PC | $614.94 | See it |
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Acer 10.1 in. AMD C-Series Processor 2GB Tablet W500PBZ841 | $619 | See it |
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Acer LE.L0803.047 10.1-Inch Tablet Computer | $624.99 | See it |
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Acer Iconia TAB W500-BZ467 10.1 Inch AMD Dual-Core C-50/2GB/32GB SSD/No ODD/W7HP Tablet PC | $644.14 | See it |
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Acer ICONIA W500P-BZ841 10.1" 2GB 32GB SSD Tablet Gray | $651.39 | See it |
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Acer ICONIA Tab W500-C52G03iss 10.1' LED Tablet PC - Wi-Fi - AMD Fusion C-50 1 GHz. W500-BZ467 C-50 1G 2GB 32GB 10.1IN-TFT WL BT 10/100 W7HP 32BIT TAB-PC. Multi-touch Screen 1280 x 800 WXGA Display - 2 GB RAM - 32 GB SSD - AMD Graphics Card - Bluetooth - Webcam - Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium - 6 Hour Battery - HDMI | $693.8 | See it |
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Acer ICONIA 10.1" W Series 32GB Tablet with 2GBRAM & Webcam | $699.96 | See it |
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Gateway/Acer Retail LE.L0803.047 AMD C-Series Proccessor C-50 W7 PrO | $744.63 | See it |
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ACER AMERICA, Acer ICONIA Tab W500P-C52G03iss 10.1" LED Tablet PC - Fusion C-50 1 GHz (Catalog Category: Computer Technology / Computer Systems) | $870.06 | See it |