so today I have an unboxing of something that's very cool and very exciting this
is the Acer Iconia Tab
w500 this is a tablet PC it is using
Windows 7 okay so let's just go over what it says on the box and then we'll
get more into the fit and finish of the overall product once we get inside you
can see it has a 10.1 in multi-touch LED
backlit LCD supports HDMI it has Wi-Fi
which it bloody well better it's going to pretend to be a tablet okay we've
also got evidently a keyboard so let's
go ahead and get this oh let's have a look at the specs so here we are we have
Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit AMD dual core processor C50 bam that's the
surprise because that is not only see you see how they have that listed as a
processor not as a CPU well the reason is that this is an APU this is an AMD
Fusion tablet so it uses the C50 Apu
which means it has a CPU and a GPU built
in to one die pretty sweet 10.1 in
multi-touch HD LED LCD 2 gigs of memory 32 gig SSD 2inone card reader Wireless N
1.3 megapixel webcam and a three Cell lithium ion battery now the thing about
that three Cell lithium ion battery you might go oh three cell probably doesn't
have great battery life well with AMD Fusion we're talking about a whole
different ball of wax because Fusion uses very very little power due to the
efficiency of the design okay so here's a little install guide for using the
plug apparently you can rotate the plug should you so desire excellent here's an
international Travelers warranty as well as a quick start guide next we have a
setup and configuration guide which probably shows you a couple useful
tricks and tips all right and let's go
ahead and take this off find the tablet itself no let's see
if we have any more accessories first oh yeah okay so there's our
keyboard okay what do we got over here so there's our there's our power adapter so this is
what they mean by being able to rotate it I suppose so you can put it this way
or no I don't think it goes in that
way oh yeah okay it looks like you got to lock it in there we go there all
right so why don't we pull out the tablet portion
first okay I was actually already playing around with this so I apologize
in advance for the fact that it's got a couple fingerprints on it but you guys
can deal all right so go ahead press the button
here okay please wait we're going to get
into Windows 7 Home Premium the default user is logged in there we go so I'll
let cameraman have a look at that while I dig out the
keyboard so that I can show that to you guys cuz that is a very cool little
feature so let's get all this stuff out of our way so we can make room just for
the product itself
okay and here we go so let's do a quick
tour of the device so here is a Windows
button all right that's pretty much it for buttons on the front of the device
so everything is multi-touch ready it is
accelerated by a direct X11 GPU so that means that not only do you have support
for your multi-touch but you're going to have full video acceleration for
anything that is a direct compute open CL that's what you get with direct X11
as well as Windows arog glass so let's
move around to the side here we've got our HDMI output as well as an SD card
reader okay we've got our volume up and
down power we've got a headphone jack
there's a low battery LED indicator down
here we've got a ventilation Port we've
also got our webcam right there uh moving this way we've got yet
another webcam okay on the other side we have power
in and then finally on the bottom we're going to find USB as well as a couple of
pegs for mounting this to the included keyboard This appears to be some kind of
lock which I guess is an orientation lock yep so it does have an
accelerometer which means that you can hold it this
way there we go or this
way just like that and it'll resize your desktop and and now let's have a look at
the keyboard itself so what you do is you evidently lift this
up and plug it in so USB is going to
power and give us an interface to this little included keyboard we've got one
of those old school style uh rubber
thing in the middle of the keyboard I actually really like this I used to I
used to use this on on a really old laptop that I had if you've got two
hands to use it this is is one of the best mousing interfaces I believe uh
that has ever graced notebooks everywhere so uh I I'm personally a big
fan of that the keyboard is a on this
particular demo unit a sing uh unilingual or monolingual whatever you
prefer to call it it is only one language so you've got fulls size shift
Keys fullsize Enter key you've got a fullsize backspace key now the keyboard
is quite small but remember this is only a 10.1 in screen so that's pretty much
what we have to deal with now the most exciting thing about this tablet slash
uh subnotebook bu a long shot is AMD Fusion
so give me a second I'm going to get connected to our Wi-Fi and I'm going to show you guys the some of the advantages
of AMD Fusion so here's our Fusion Tablet
running my personal favorite uh YouTube
HD video so we've got Big Buck Bunny running I'm actually going to find a
more action-packed part to uh skip to for you you guys oh
yeah this will do okay so you can see the playback is
quite smooth now remember the direct X11
uh component well I I can't really call it a GPU it's very challenging so the
direct X11 graphics processor in the Apu
which is part of the Apu is capable not only of accelerating flash it's also
good for HTML 5 and it's going to give
you the capability of using direct compute and open CL applications as well
which is something that a non-direct X11 compliant part will not allow you to do
now the C50 inside this particular
tablet I'm just going to go ahead and close down iie
here all right let's uh go to task manager so it is a dual core processor
you can see the CPU usage is quite High even so we do have video running in the
background and uh so it's splitting the load between the CPU and the GPU
components of the APU going to go ahead and turn that off but
it is a dual core so you can see that in the task manager and um it's a 9 watt part so I
want to show you guys the total system power consumption let me turn my video
back on in full screen mode here and I
can go ahead and do that there we go and
here we are so total system power consumption
remember this is a rough ballpark figure is about 36 Watts for the entire to
tablet so what that means is better battery life better performance and more
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