Acer Now Shipping Iconia Tab W500 In NA

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Acer's Windows 7-themed Iconia Tab tablet has arrived in the States.

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[wasabiman123]

Wow this actually looks really good for school use 😵

 

[Parsian]

good to see Fusion is put to work 😛

I hope they could throw in a wacom pen system in addition, then it would be ideal for school.

 

[bustapr]

wow, those are really impressive specs. But being broke sucks, so Im not getting it, but its nice to see a tab running that power at that price.

 

[chfireball]

The replys on this topic just got deleted. seems Toms is in bed with google.

 

[kinggraves]

This seems like a better value than the Asus Transformer, I think the docking station is even included in the price. The Transformer has triple the battery life though. Still, previous experience with Acer netbooks would make me wonder how sturdy the dock is, it really doesn't look like a very strong cradle. Win7 is also sort of bothersome to use with a touchscreen. I think I'll stick with a netbook until I see a tablet design that still allows me to upgrade memory and storage.

 

[K2N hater]

Looks great but I must say: not for begineers.

I can almost see reviewers claiming its battery life is junk without getting rid of all the bloatware and disabling idiotic Windows features such as prefetching and virtual RAM. Others will complain about the performance of the Fusion after installng antivirus, claiming it's just the same as the anemic ARM devices out there.