Acer Iconia W500 10.1" (The w means windows)

As you all know; "or should, theres a link here if your curious, look for the Iconia A500"
there is naming convention it seems, among the icona tablets.
the 100's are 7 inch tablets, the 500 are 10.1. The A is for Android, W is windows.
This tidbit of information should help you decide what to buy; we arent fondest of windows, but hey
its your world, we are just tryin to get a nut.

Soooo... this is about the Acer Iconia W500 tablet; another acer powerhouse, and that it is.
It runs Windows 7 32bit home premium. "A custom UI of course".
A question you need to ask us is "Tablet or Notebook"; and we cant answer you, the line is very very
thin and very very blurry.  Mostly because since its a Windows 7 machine you can literally run anything
on it a normal laptop or desktop computer will run; this includes all your games, productivity programs "like office or visual studio"; its technically a touch screen desktop computer, without a mouse.

We believe this makes the choice hard; there is something to be said for androids epic market place.
provided of course your buying an equally powerful android machine "the A500 for example".

This thing rocked, i takes a keyboard and mouse if you so choose "basically your tablet converts into
a speedy little dual core laptop"; with a simple plug. It only has a single USB port, so we had to
use a USB Hub to do it, but it worked; "unless of course you buy the docking station, which is basically the other half of a laptop, full with mouse and keyboard".
It is a microUSB though, we had to use a microUSB to USB Female adapter - amazon has them.

This thing ran just as we expect, a dual core notebook. we played Civilization 4 with no hiccups; as
well as Borderlands; lotta fun. We took it off the stand, used it as an eReader with KOBOs
desktop windows application and called it a great tablet!
And graphics are powered by ATi Radeon 6250, and the CPU is an AMD 1GHz C-Series.

The only issue we had is no way to add more ram with SDCard, but the model comes in
32Gb size "only".
There is a card reader though "you CAN put an SDCard in it" it just isnt meant as a permanent
piece of hardware, but as a medium to transfer files, and of course you can plug a USB
thumbdrive in as well "in fact we used a 16gb usb drive to install our test software"
You wont go wrong here!

Want some nitty gritty? here it is.


CPU                                  AMD Dual Core 1GHZ C-Series             
RAM                                 2GB DDR2
HDD                                  32gb SSD
MEMORY                         Not Expandable - 3 in 1 card reader is present
O/S                                    Windows7 Home Premium 32bit
FLASH                              Any Windows 32bit flash
SCREEN SIZE                  10.1" 1280x800 wide LCD
SCREEN TYPE                Capacitive Multitouch
Dimentions                        27.4x1.5x19.3 CM
Weight                                970g  (Heavy for a tablet)
CAMERAS                        Front and back both 1.3mp
Rooted/Rootable                 Not Applicable
MARKET                          Any PC Intel/Windows application (so yea.... lol)
SENSORS                         aGPS,
MIC/Speaker                     yea/yea
CONNECTORS                3.5mm, usb, card reader, docking, microUSB
BATTERIES                     up to 6hours   Li-Ion
NETWORKING               WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth, GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA, HSUPA