Last week, Acer announced its Iconia W700 tablet. This device's Intel Ivy Bridge processors will give it quite a bit of processing power, but its $800 starting price tag and 2.3 pound weight make it more of an Ultrabook replacement than a stand-in for an Android or iOS-based tablet. That task is best left to the Iconia W510, an Intel Atom-based tablet that still runs the full version of Windows 8, but weighs 1.32 pounds and starts at $499.99. Like the W700, it will launch on November 9 shortly after Windows 8.
The Iconia W510 debuts at four different price points, all of which include a 1.5 GHz Intel Atom Z2760. Codenamed Clover Trail, this dual-core processor is slower than Ivy Bridge processors but is said to give the W510 an ARM-like estimated nine hours of battery life (though we won't be able to test these claims until we receive a review unit). All models of the tablet also include a 10.1" 1366x768 IPS touchscreen covered with Gorilla Glass, 2GB of 800MHz low-power DDR2 RAM, 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0, a 2 megapixel front-facing camera, and an 8 megapixel rear-facing camera. Micro HDMI and Micro USB 2.0 ports and a microSD card reader are also included, though mobile broadband options are sadly absent.
The $499.99 version of the tablet includes a small 32GB of storage—a fair amount for an iOS or Android tablet, though Windows 8 takes up quite a bit more space than either of those operating systems—while the $599.99 version bumps this up to 64GB. For $749.99, you can add the keyboard dock, which itself includes a full-size USB 2.0 port and a secondary battery that Acer says will boost total battery life to 18 hours.
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