Touch Tablet Review: Acer Iconia Tab W500

Here's the Windows 7 Acer Iconia Tab W500, with its physical keyboard dock.

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.

The tablet comes with a physical keyboard dock, which the tablet sits on and links up to via a USB socket.

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