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With the keyboard attached to the front you can drop the screen all the way back and it won't fall over which makes it extremely stable on the lap and due to the extreme screen angles, center-mounted hinge and mouse pointer, better than most laptops.įinally there's a 'desktop' mode which is what you get when you separate the keyboard from the unit. The pen, unfortunately, is an optional accessory. The hinge, an extremely important part of the design, feels strong and you can push the tablet all the way back from 90-degrees back to about 30 degrees before the unit falls on its back and reveals the tent mode that's going to be be perfect for coffee-shop news reading or for some pen-based activities. As the processor is housed in the top-left (as you face the tablet) and the bottom half of the tablet is extremely thin it makes sense that the battery is in the base. There are screws on the folding base and it looks like the battery might be housed inside this. The case is sealed with no obvious way to get inside although when we ran a fingernail along the join it popped-apart slightly. There's no creaking or bad joints though so perhaps it will turn out to be a rugged choice of materials from Acer. The edges seem a little too sharp as you hold the unit and because of the width there's a huge leverage felt on the wrist in landscape mode. The Acer Aspire Switch 12 feels solid but dense and although the stand provides ways to hold the unit it still doesn't feel like something that can be held for, say, 30 minutes of reading Flipboard.
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Compared to the Surface Pro 3 there's no competition and that applies to the weight too. The casing is made from a hard textured plastic and feels a little cheap. The packaging is good quality despite our unit being marked 'demo' so we expect this to be near final packaging. The first few minutes were a little confusing but after understanding the layout of the unit (which we're sure that most customers will actually be familiar with before they buy the Switch 12) we 'got it'!
In total, 2.1 KG / 4.6 pounds with the power adapter. Acer have included a good quality case for protection but that adds to the weight. You're left with a permanently exposed screen. It doesn't! Although you can attache the keyboard at the rear you can't fold it forward. What's more important is what happened when we tried to fold the keyboard section back over the screen as you would normally do with a laptop. It turns out that the stand is extremely stable but we'll talk more about that later. It's like Acer looked at a Lenovo Flex design and decided to cut the keyboard off leaving a stub. At 1.1 KG (2.4 pounds) it's too heavy to be instantly attractive and that's largely due to the stand that is permanently attached to the unit. We'll look at some interesting usage scenarios in the review and cover productivity, gaming and battery life with comparisons to other convertibles.Īs we unboxed the Acer Aspire Switch 12 we couldn't help notice the weight of the tablet. Where some 2-in-1s can be labeled 'tablet-first' the Switch 12 is a much more laptop-first design and it could appeal to a broad range of users. By using the Core M platform Acer have been able to provide processing power above that which an Atom-based 2-in-1 can offer and yet remain completely fanless.
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It's a full size keyboard with chicklet keys that stows with the stand and can either be attached to the front of the tablet or detached and used away from the unit thanks to a built-in battery and wireless link.
The screen and hinge puts it in the same stand-able tablet class as the Surface Pro 3 but it's the detachable keyboard that really sets it apart. While they all include detachable tablets Acer has take a different design approach with the Intel Core-M based Switch 12. Last login: Fri Dec 15 17:40:49 on console
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