![]() ![]() ![]() As mentioned, the display has Micro-USB, Micro-HDMI, and a microSD card slot. If you look at it as a laptop, it's potentially frustrating. ![]() If you look at the W510 as a tablet, its ports and connections are decent. Stereo speakers, combo headphone/mic jackġ USB 2.0 (tablet), 1 USB 2.0 (base), Micro-SD card readerĮthernet (via dongle), 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, optional mobile broadband Despite my Atom-centric concerns, touch response is immediate and quick, and off-axis viewing (important for a tablet) was excellent from any angle. The 13-inch 1,366x768-pixel display is clear and bright, and suffers no visual degradation from having touch incorporated into it. The hinge holds very securely, and the entire hinge assembly can also fold open to nearly 180 degrees. When combined, the screen and keyboard form something that looks and feels a lot like a traditional clamshell laptop. As much as the Acer Aspire S7 touch-screen ultrabook was an excellent advertisement for Windows 8, the Iconia W510 feels like an advertisement for the iPad, or any of the $700 to $800 ultrabooks that offer slim, portable computing at a reasonable price. Hybrids such as this need to be priced appropriately (especially ones with Atom processors), and offer great design and usability in order to be a compelling alternative to other computing products in the same price range. Adding to my usability concerns, $750 only gets you a 64GB SSD hard drive (with about half that space free after OS and software overhead), and the tablet half has connections - Micro-HDMI, microSD, and Micro-USB - that are only useful if you walk around with a pocketful of adapters. In practice, the slate part of the W510 is well-built and responsive, and the hinge that connects the two halves is easy to use and secure.īut, the keyboard half (which contains an additional battery) is too light, making the entire thing top-heavy and prone to tipping over. The idea of a touch-screen slate running a full Windows operating system that can instantly transform into a working laptop is an appealing one. ![]()
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