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my unboxing and first look at the Acer Iconia w700 tablet now unlike most of
the tablets we've seen in the last few years actually this is not an ARM-based
design or an iPad or anything that requires a special operating system to
run this is an Intel based so so that is an x86 based tablet that comes in at a
pretty high price point although when you compare it to something like you
know a 64 gig iPad honestly it's not that unreasonable it's a little under a
th000 bucks but has the ability to run a full-blown Windows 8 operating system
with all of the fixings and it looks like this is an eval unit so the S the
uh seals are already broken but why don't we do a quick run through of the specs before we get started so Windows 8
64bit Intel Core i5 3317 U so it's a 1.6
G or 1.7 GHz rather CPU turbo up to 2.6
GHz it's an 11.6 in multi-touch full HD
display it comes with 4 gigs of memory 128 gig SSD which I think is pretty cool
it also has a da it's in my notes
somewhere whatever I can't find it something milliamp hour battery that's
basically good for 6 hours of Fairly heavy use or as much as 9 hours of
Fairly light use sort of not counting any standby time so there's a variety of
different configurations it's available with different amounts of uh or
different sizes of drive and it's available with different accessories and all that kind of stuff but the config
that we have comes with a keyboard dock so this is what makes it so Acer feels
they are Bridging the Gap between tablet and notebook because the power is
somewhere in between a tablet and a notebook with a core i7 but not a
particular or rather a core i5 but not a particularly fast one and the form
factor is somewhere between a tablet and a notebook much like a Microsoft Surface
Pro just because it is a little bit on the thicker side so it comes with a fux
leather carrying case that uh there we go I can go away take that off that has
okay a place to put the tablet inside it here that's got kind of a plastic backing to protect it and then has this
is actually quite nice has a keyboard a full keyboard that you can then prop the
tablet up in so just like that so let's go ahead and pull the tablet out and see
how she looks so it's a little bit on the thicker side compared to again you
know your iPad or your uh your ASUS transformer or any kind of ARM based
design but that's because it has to accommodate the cooling needed for an
Intel basically what amounts to an Ultrabook processor so it's hard to get
the form factor much Slimmer than what they've done here so you can see there's
two vents down here on the bottom as well as an orientation lock oh okay is
that an orientation lock button or is that a power button guess we'll find out
in a moment here on the side here we've got oh no that's power volume rocker as
well as a headphone microphone Jack on
the bottom you've got two speakers so stereo speakers on the bottom the tablet
is meant to be used in portrait or rather in landscape mode and then on the
other side we find DC power in USB 3 which is one of the really nice things
about these Windows 8 tablets or well really any tablet that has USB 3 is nice
to have USB 3 on um and finally we've got micr HDMI out which actually allows
you to use it as a notebook computer if you just kind of plug PL it into a dock
as well as a USB 3 Hub so and and then
you can use micro HDMI to Output to any desktop monitor so in terms of included
accessories we've got a power adapter which looks a little something
like that there you go can have a look at that there's an iPhone size comparison for
you then we've got the power cord that goes with that we've also got a USB
charging cable so USB charging cable looks a little something like that it
just uses standard um or rather no that's a data transfer cable so that's
micro USB for data transfer here is our
power cord all right next up we've got
this is handy so they actually include a
micro HDMI to VGA adapter so if you're going to use this for presentations or
whatever else on the road they include that so you have not only digital output
but also analog output from the tablet itself more accessories wow there's a
lot of stuff in here I am really running out of space pretty quickly so we're
going to ditch some of these things and
yay we have more space so it comes with a cleaning cloth there you go little
nice little white microfiber cleaning cloth a bunch of DVDs although I don't
know where they're expecting you to put those it does not have an optical Bay in
case you guys are wondering International Travelers warranty is a nice thing to have because if you move
or whatever else there are devices where your warranty does not come with you
which I've always thought is bizarre and I'm glad to see that Trend really
turning around all right more components here now if
there's any complaints that I've seen about this particular tablet it's that
compared to the build quality of the tablet itself the dock is a little bit
um a little bit less than less than
equally satisfactory compared to that I mean I've had people come out as far as
to say the build quality of the dock is very uh disappointing compared to the
tablet so this is this is plastic this
piece slides into presumably here
and allows you to dock the tablet like this so you could actually use the unit
as a secondary monitor here actually I can lift this up you could use the unit
as a secondary monitor I have no idea what you're talking about you have it
upside down all right so we figured out the
dock stand so yeah it's a little bit uh
not quite up to the same standard of build quality as the tablet itself
although this is as much a compliment for the tablet as it is sort of a knock
against the uh the stand here so it can be configured in portrait like like this
just like that or it can be configured in landscape mode like this there you go
okay well I didn't get it in that time so there it should go in like that and
then it can sit in landscape mode like that there you go that's how it looks
like from the back yeah like it's really not the best thing in the world ever but
the tablet itself is absolutely gorgeous so we're just going to show how it fits
in here just just once and so you kind of put in like that there's little
rubber pieces here soft plastic pieces that keep it from getting scratched as
you plug it in and this actually gives you a little bit more in terms of IO so
there's your vents on the top so you're still going to get all the cooling you need and it's uh expands that single USB
3 to three usb3 ports so you can actually plug in all the peripherals you
need and all that it also adds a pass through for the power in and last but
not least you still have access to your micro HDMI so you're still going to be
able to use it as like a dual monitor setup or you could even just tuck it
away in the corner and just use a full desktop keyboard and mouse and all that
good stuff which is uh which is a really nice thing the only thing that I would
have liked to see added would be wired Lan as like like with a an adapter
chipset usb3 to wired l in here that way you really have more like a desktop
experience so let's go ahead and pull it out of that and put it into the travel
case that also comes with this particular setup so there we
go it's not quite the same uh level of
Elegance as something like Microsoft's touch uh keyboard or type keyboard but
what it does do is it does actually protect the unit in a meaningful way so
around the edges you've got um a soft a soft rubber that comes around all of the
aluminum edges and actually fits quite snugly which makes sense because it's
designed just for this device this device only and uh that was the worst
German accent anyone's ever heard ever but you know whatever you guys don't
watch this show for my German accent I'm sure so there you go so you can see what
that looks like uh it folds down on top
so this is Gorilla Glass too so I wouldn't worry too much about damaging
it one way or the other but it folds down onto I'm just going to turn the
screen back on there uh six little rubber pads that are on the keyboard
itself so that it's not just going to mash itself up against this is plastic
so I probably wouldn't be likely to scratch it anyway but it's not going to mash itself up against the keyboard and
leave those imprints on the screen that you've seen time and time again with
various notebooks in terms of the thickness once you get it covered in the
faux leather casing as well as the uh the plastic housing you've got a size
here that looks sort of what are what are we at we're at about triple the
thickness of something like an iPhone and honestly compared to something like
an S7 which you guys have probably seen if you've been watching my live streams
because I usually put it in front of me these days so an S7 is actually not that
much bigger see like that so it's a 13 point
something inch model 13.3 in but is actually quite a bit thinner so an
Ultrabook if you don't need that tablet form factor
sometimes may end up being a better solution for you because they do usually
end up being a little bit more powerful um whereas that one's a little bit more
expensive so I guess it's wide variety of trade-offs but anyway that's what it
looks like in more like a notebook configuration the screen itself goes up
to uh let me just have a look here there we go screen brightness yay nice and
nice bright screen so it's very very vibrant it uses an IPS panel so the
viewing angles are outstanding I mean this is something that we've kind of
come to expect from tablets now but I'm
really glad that that whole trend of sort of cheap tablets with cheap panels
turned around can you see the viewing angle pretty well there or you can I I
can't I was waving at myself you were waving at yourself oh okay okay well I
wasn't watching him do that uh the keyboard itself has a bilingual layout
because this is a Canadian model but not all of them will have that so that's
going to vary depending on the territory that you're operating within and I'm
just going to switch back to my word document where I had my notes for myself
so I can see if there's anything else I need to tell you about this guy so let's
make this more of a summary than anything else it's got a 720p front
camera a 1080p rear camera Bluetooth Wi-Fi n all that stuff that you've come
to expect it comes with a dock it comes with sort of the accessories that you
really really need out of the box although I think probably the most exceptional thing about it is much like
the S7 this is a new Acer in terms of build quality because I mean when I got
my hands on the S7 I'd seen pictures and I knew that it was supposed to be really
nice but I still wasn't quite expecting
what ended up getting delivered to me so there's absolutely no flex in it it's
absolutely gorgeous you can see there's only one Gap in the solid aluminum body
here so I'm going to try and show that to the camera and that's up in this top
strip right here which I'm assuming is something to do with antenna reception
because we've seen a few tablets that have solid metal backings that have ended up with uh reception issues on
their Wireless uh Wireless interfaces um
you get a 1080p screen which is really really nice in a small form factor like
this but one of the challenges is that when you're not using the whoopsy
daisies when you're not using the modern UI you may find yourself um you may find
yourself in a situation where it's not really that easy to read uh text or that
easy to to use it unless you blow things up when you're in more like the uh the
classic interface one thing that I should probably mention is if you do a
five finger thing like this you get into Acer's little launcher here where you
can store some favorite apps including their Cloud document storage Backup
Manager uh also shows you like your device settings and all that cool stuff
remember that's not the only way to access that stuff you can also swipe in
from the side and I forgot this before but it was 350 knit brightness on the
IPS screen so that's actually pretty outstanding and I think that pretty much
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