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Acer sets the Iconia W510 price at $500, nips the expensive Windows 8 tablet rumors in the bud

0. phoneArena posted on 09 Oct 2012, 08:50

What's best - at this price it can run Windows 8 with backwards compatibility for all programs ever written for Windows. Not too shabby, and Acer claims you can get 9 hours of usage out of its battery - Intel's new Atom processors are a big improvement over their predecessors in that regard, it seems...

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1. Cyan3boN posted on 09 Oct 2012, 09:03 2

The more the merrier

2. lyndon420 posted on 09 Oct 2012, 09:22 1

Might be a good buy.

3. ZEUS.the.thunder.god posted on 09 Oct 2012, 09:48 1

now thats really cool. cant wait to see how MS prices surface:)

4. Joshing4fun posted on 09 Oct 2012, 09:52 1

Atom is still slow. Make it i3 or might as well just get RT.

5. TylerGrunter posted on 09 Oct 2012, 10:10 1 1

Doesn't look too bad, the double cored "Clover Trail" should perform around the Tegra in CPU and the GPU is and equivalent of the iPad2. But I'll wait for the reviews before making a decission.

6. XiphiasGladius posted on 09 Oct 2012, 10:13 2

Wow, from where I'm from Sony's offering cost 3x than this one. I might buy one of these come holiday season. . .

7. Reverence posted on 09 Oct 2012, 10:45 3

not happy.......less storage and poor screens

9. Seymur posted on 09 Oct 2012, 11:12 6

IPad is no more best tablet, but people will be buying iPad mini as a secondary tablet, I mean toy.

10. vvelez5 posted on 09 Oct 2012, 12:13 1

Impressive. This is a great price point, and I can still run my emulators. Can't wait to see the Surface pricing.

11. darkvadervip posted on 09 Oct 2012, 19:08

Let the competition begin. Just waiting on at&t prices on the LTE pro windows tablet.

12. Edmund posted on 09 Oct 2012, 20:16

So much for the scaremongering from brainless google fanboys.

13. pikapowerize (banned) posted on 10 Oct 2012, 19:15

my question is... is acer a good computer comp

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