Acer's sleek Windows 8 tablet: the Iconia W700 - First Look

With its 11.6-inch IPS display, 5-megapixel camera, and Core i3/i5 Ivy Bridge processors, the Acer Iconia W700 offers users the Windows 8 experience in tablet form.

[Napoleonrevolution]

My family still uses windows 8 tablet.

[FullArmageddon]

People, this is not a slim Windows RT (ARM) tablet because it has an x86 processor in it, meaning you can run all your normal desktop applications like Photoshop, iTunes, etc, which you can't do with Windows RT. This is more of a laptop/tablet hybrid than it is a tablet.

[kanyaugatiejagwo]

These machines will be very useful in the classroom

[Ualntisk]

Of course - different people different needs!

[iphne]

Looks great for business or power meetings

[Redgit]

You can have it in portrait mode, the start screen rearranges

[SquirrelGott]

The problem is that voice recognition is too good. The problem is that most everyone speaks with accents, dialects, broken sentences, mumbles etc. Using voice option for text is improving my speech I would say. For it to function correctly one has to speak loud and clear, then it is nearly flawless. It has been for me with Nexus7.

[fullmoon]

Wow that big tablet even bigger than iPad 2&3

[ozera]

All these tablets still never replace a pc. In had the new load and sold it 3 months later I did not even use it. My phone does everything other than that I use my pc

[TwatUniverse]

What do you mean its big? Its an ultrabook replacement. Its not competing with a 7 inch tablet.

[rezzw]

kinda wished that windows 8 tablet is more optimized for portrait mode.

[Ualntisk]

The fact that this runs legacy windows applications alone blows ios out the water.

[TechInspected]

I happen to think Lynn La is quite pretty in this video.

[SquirrelGott]

Someday the keyboard will change completely, I wonder what will replace it.

[HrothgarLareow]

Mind dictation, maybe. But I think the keyboard will be around for a good while longer, as far as productivity goes, anyway. I actually enjoy typing (as opposed to speech dictation - maybe it's just because speech dictation isn't that great at the moment).

[JoelPaskings]

I think its a bit big. Looks like its marketed more toward buisness users.

[Redgit]

What is with all these haters and primitive/biased thoughts. Companies don't spend millions of dollars just to piss everyone off

[ajaykoemar]

3 But you can use USB 2.0 over USB 3.0 Interface

[jasonyang]

i say big means it is bigger than tablet. i say useless means i won't use it in daily, for the bad battery costs, bad heat dissipation, bad type feeling. i will use a desktoppc instead, for entertainment, the pad is enough in daily use. the pad of x86 architecture is bad design and computing redundancy. It's just my opnion

[spherinder]

Mm hmm, and what happens when you drop it.