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I bought this product as a universal alternative to a laptop and a tablet. I knew this baby would satisfy what I need out of a laptop such as browsing, gaming and music production. Giving me total freedom to engineer and record on the go with the swipe/tap of a finger! First thing you want to edit, Touch Preferences. If you have big or small fingers, you can adjust the point size for precision. I also shorted the hold-tap time for right click navigation so everything can run on the fly. This tablet can also play some pretty good games at minimum to medium/high settings no overclock! Games like Left 4 Dead, Fallout 3 and my favorite, DC Universe: Online (connected external hdd)! Once you grip the changes from mouse to touch and adjust to the onscreen keyboard, you can really be just as productive as you were on a laptop. Without the Docking Keyboard the Tablet does lack a little. Even with the Dock, I still find myself multitasking from the Docking Keyboard to the onscreen multi-touch taps and navigation. and It's quite fun actually! The screen itself is great! HQ Resolution! It looks like the same material that they use on most phones like the Samsung Galaxy S2. I personally think the display looks best on 1280x800 (highest)! I can still see the words and everything as clear as if it was on my 17" Laptop. Sometimes, I forget i'm on a tablet! NOTE: SOME HD TV's, using HDMI, may only support 1280x768 and below. Also I can't forget about the front and rear facing camera! That will come in handy on the go. And I hear this baby can be Dual-Booted with Android! Now for the dislikes with this tablet... This is a great Tab, but the Hard Drive isn't so great. Some are fortunate enough to be left with 20gb after Windows 7 installs itself. I wasn't one of the lucky ones, I was left with 9gb after Microsoft Word and a few essential programs were installed. I plan to upgrade this baby to a 120gb Hard Drive. For the price I paid, I can afford to upgrade it. I wanna say 3hrs & 30mins is great battery life for a Windows Tablet, But I still expect a little more from a TABLET. Next, the USB ports located at the bottom of the tablet. A little inconvenient, but the Docking Keyboard makes up for it with 2 USB ports on each side with an ethernet port on the left side. Forget the little mouse touch thing between G and H. I recommend a USB Mouse. 2gb of RAM is okay, but for the processor, gaming will have to be at a minimum without overclocking. Also, I don't know how to boot into system recovery or BIOS. The tablet loads instantly! Almost directly from "Starting Windows". That's a plus for impatient people like myself but let's just say I'd dread a system related error. This one's more of a warning.. Don't forget this is still a Windows PC in tablet form! Remember it's prone to viruses, malware, browser failures, etc. Since this is a tablet though, I'd recommend taking extreme precautions to where you are going and what you are doing on the net! This tablet does exactly what I was expecting, no hassle! There are other great Windows Tablets out there. Especially the Samsung Series 7! But the Series 7 has a top of the line processor but a stock GPU! Expect fast gaming on that tablet but not much spice! I got this tablet for $260, given the lacking HDD I'd say $300 is about right for that tablet! The $499-$599 price tag is horrendously ridiculous! If you can't get a deal on this baby, I don't recommend a Sticker Priced buy... My 1st Review, Thank You! :-)Read full review
I purchased this tablet after having a blackberry playbook but needed a device with more flexability. Don't get me wrong the playbook is an awesome device but it's strictly blackberry, something I personally can't use to create programs or run my type of business. Back to my review of the Acer W500, it is a great little table and by little I mean that it's compact but not by weight. This is one of the reasons why I gave it 4 stars. This tablet isn't as heavy as a laptop or even some netbooks, but after holding this up with one hand for some time it feels like your holding a bowling ball. You have to find some comfortable way of holding it or supporting your hand with something so it doesn't bother you too much. The keyboard is a great bonus and like I read in some reviews, it does at times take a moment to recognize it, but that's the same with just about any usb device that is plugged into a computer. Also some reviews mention that you have to have it on a flat surface or it will topple over, this is true but what I do is incline my legs or recline in my recliner with my legs up and that does the trick. Other than these issues, this tablet is great. It runs smooth and the touchscreen is responsive and has plenty of touch points. I can at least get 4 points to show up in paint but when I use 5 fingers it brings up the acer software, so there is at least 5 points which is three more than a lot of other tablets out there. The processor is dual core and it comes with 2 gigs of ram, what more can you ask for. I have a feeling that I will be using this tablet alot and work less on my 9 lb. 17" laptop.Read full review
I purchased this tablet after trying the Blackberry Playbook and the A500 (android) tablet. I needed a full function tablet due to my academic needs. This tablet fit the bill. I will say it is an awesome tablet, but I would just like to mention the few cons I've noticed. 1. Windows 7 is a poor OS...but it I can't get around it. (I've tried the beta version of windows 8 and when that is released it is goingt to kick much butt) 2. IE is laggy. The hardware specs on this tablet are just too light for a hoggy OS like windows 7. I tried Fedora 16 on it and the tablet actually runs BETTER with Fedora 16 than Windows. 3. It does get heavy after a while. In conclusion, Acer did a great job, but they could have done better. 3 gigs DDR3 should have been the min and the CPU is underpowered for Windows. Yet, I still love this tablet. I'm really looking forward to installing windows 8 on it. For now, I switch between Windows 7 and Fedora 16 depending upon what I need to do and that works well for me. You can run Fedora from the SD card so you don't have to worry about messing with your windows partition.Read full review
This tablet have everything you need to work on the way. This baby can handle most of the daily use programs. This tablet has become my main pc, although is not perfect, but for the price is very fair. Cons: Crappy Camera Resolution and no usb on sides Pros: Smooth hd playback, low heat, no fan noise, superb sound system, good battery life, fast and accurate responsive touch screen & almost all stuff of this tablet is awesome.
I wound up with a Windows tablet by accident, and have found that, with the docking keyboard, it is an impressive system indeed. Upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10 is dicey, given that Windows is a memory hog in general, but the Acer offering gives a great deal of utility to the Windows platform. For a travel work machine, it has plenty of horsepower and is a real improvement over a laptop for my purposes. Acer did well with this one.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
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