Acer Iconia Tab W500
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User reviews5
Mark C Rennison 4 February 2012
Good: It runs Windows
Bad: It runs Windows
Comment: The major advantage of this device is that you can visit any website and be absolutely confident that it will display properly.
iPad famously doesn't support Flash, so a LOT of sites don't work.
Android does support Flash, but doesn't support Shockwave which means that a number of sites which you thought used Flash turn out to be using Shockwave and don't work.
Windows supports Flash and Shockwave in a single installation (which is why you never knew you had Shockwave installed) and will support any new web technologies that get released without replacing the whole OS.
The downside of this device is that the multi-touch support in Windows 7 is a bit of a compromise as most of the application user interfaces (including Windows itself) do not have the big Fisher-Price Activity Centre style controls that you tend to get in iOS and Android and, as a result, you'll find yourself poking at the screen A LOT to hit some of the smaller buttons and links. Thankfully there's a mouse-stick-button-thingy on the keyboard that allows you to move the mouse a little more accurately. There's also a multi-touch browser, but the controls on it are so big that you lose a lot of screen real-estate.
Works great as a netbook though. Plays most of the more hardware-forgiving games (I have World of Warcraft running pretty sweet on it with some of the sliders turned down). Removing the keyboard dock works really well when sat in front of the TV too.
Overall, well worth the money but get the one with the keyboard or you'll get frustrated with it pretty quickly.
tswhittaker 22 August 2011
Good: It's great for my collage work and it has every thing i need.
Bad: The weight of it.
Comment: I that it's a good tablet and its decent and easy to use after maybe 2-3 days playing with it so that it is fermiler to use. But its great tablet to use and fun and workful. The tablet is very heavy and thick.
xRanger 21 August 2011
Good: Everything
Bad: Nothing
Comment: Don't listen to @Steelskin, that kid doesn't even know how proper grammar, so what would he know about tablets?
I've owned this Tablet for a week and can't out it down. Ignore the reviewers that hate on the W500, they usually are all apple fanboys/paid by apple.
steelskin 6 June 2011
Good: harware is very good...when run with Android
Bad: Windows, not really designed for a touch screen tablet.
Comment: Buy the Acer A500 (not the W500) instead and take advantage of the many Android Apps that work with GPS, G-sensors etc build into this device. Plus all the other Android Apps (~100,000). There are now some very good games that use the Nvidia Tegra Graphics.
The Acer A500 (Android Version) get 5 stars, but not the Windows version (W500)
Mohey Saleh 13 May 2011
Good: good price with amazing features
Bad: nothing!
Comment: in the article it says "Asus told us that means you can charge your phone from your tablet." but it should have been Acer not Asus!!