Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1577 in Personal Computers
- Color: Silver
- Brand: Acer
- Model: W700-6607
- Released on: 2012-10-26
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .47" h x
7.52" w x
11.61" l,
2.09 pounds
- CPU: Core i3-3217U 1.8 GHz
- Memory: 4GB SDRAM
- Hard Disk: 64GB
- Processors: 2
- Display size: 11.6
Features
- Windows 8, 11.6-inch Touch Display
- Intel Core i3-3217U 1.8 GHz (3 MB Cache)
- 4 GB RAM Memory
- 9-hour battery life, 802_11_BGN wireless
Acer Iconia W700-6607 11.6-Inch 64 GB Tablet (Silver)
Product Description
Acer Iconia W700-6607 Tablet comes with these high level Specs: 3rd Generation Intel Core i3-3217U Processor, Windows 8, 11.6" Full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution high-brightness (350-nit) Acer CrystalBrite LED-backlit TFT LCD, 10-Point multi-touch screen, supporting finger touch and image auto rotatio, Intel HD Graphics 4000 with 128MB of dedicated system memory, Optimized Dolby Home Theater v4 audio enhancement, 4096MB of DDR3 On-Board System Memory, 64GB Solid State Drive, Acer Invilink Nplify 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi Certified, Bluetooth 4.0+HS, 5MP Rear-facing HD camera, Front-facing HD camera, 1 - USB 3.0 Port, 1 - Micro-HDMI out with HDCP support, 3-Cell Li-Polymer (4850 mAh) Battery, Up to 9-hours Battery Life, 2.09 lbs. | 0.95 kg (tablet only) - INCLUDES Docking Cradle and Bluetooth Keyboard
Customer Reviews
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74 of 79 people found the following review helpful.
Acer W700 i3 Model Windows 8 Review
By James Baron
I received the tablet today, and want to walk you through some of my experiences. First off the product itself is great. The tablet doesn't feel over weight to me, but instead feels the type of heavy that equals sturdy. The heavyness gives it the feel that this is a very well made product and isn't going to break easy.The included keyboard also feels very durable, but takes some getting use to because it is compacted. This also came with a case (which I was unaware of) which fits very nicely with the tablet, just wish it came in a different color besides brown.I know the dock itself has been a major complaint in comments and reviews, but personally I like the dock. It seems very sturdy and I don't feel as though the tablet is going to fall over at anytime while docked. The dock overall looks very nice and has three USB ports built into it.Setting up Windows 8 and the tablet was a breeze the keyboard synced up right away with no work and I was up and running within 5 minutes flat. One of the biggest problems with these companies is bloat ware and there was some on here. I removed a lot of programs including McAfee because Microsoft Essentials is already included in Win8 and just works so much better.So how does the tablet perform? Overall it performs great. It seems very snappy when scanning the start screen and I don't notice any lag or delay. After a few hours of moderate use I was down to 66% battery life, but will need to do more tests to verify. This boots up in under 10 seconds which I love! SSD's are great.In terms of battery life I was able to play Civ 5 with Skype App running right next to it through the awesome multi task feature of Windows 8, and running this through a thumb drive (which consumes a lot of power) for about 3 hours on medium brightness. The heat was noticable, but what you would expect with all the work I was putting on the GPU.I loaded steam (onto a USB 3.0 Patriot thumb drive) and was playing a few games that I thought would work well with tablets without a problem they were snappy and didnt notice any lag even though playing on a thumb drive. Played Civ 5 still installed on a thumb drive and worked great. (Civ 5 is built for win 8 and works great).Tile swiping did not seem to slow down at all with multiple programs opened, and I had no problems minimizing a game surfing the web for a few and going back to the game itself.Videos worked great and were lag free with no problems. I was able to check my emails while the video continued to play without any issues. Sound quality is what you would expect, is it amazing not at all but it is adequate enough. So overall this is a great buy! This is clearly the best priced tablet for windows 8 by Acer, and they did a great job, but there are a few issues I have.I love 1920x1080 that was one of the biggest reasons I bought this tablet, but when in desktop view it can be very hard to touch unless you make the icons bigger which they should have done by default if possible. Desktop is clearly meant for a keyboard and mouse.Also you cant use a wacom stylus. I don't understand why Acer did this! Lastly there is no MicroSD slot another huge downfall, but that is why I bought the thumb drive so it is a minor issue, but Acer should of included this. These are the only two reasons I cannot give this product 5 stars.Also as someone who is on computers regularly and knows windows in and out Windows 8 is a huge learning curve and takes a lot of time to figure out. As everyone knows the app store is very thin at the moment so don't expect too much there, but the reason everyone is getting full windows is to have full programs so I'm not too worried about the app store.Overall this is a great product at a great price that for sure will not disappoint. I don't think Acer cut any corners on this product, but I find it hard to give it 5 stars with a few key features missing. I'm not going to knock it for the Windows 8 learning curve, because that is not on Acer.
49 of 56 people found the following review helpful.
I wish I could rate the hardware and software separately...
By DRH
I ordered this tablet right here from Amazon and received it a few days ago. Here are some things about it that stood out to me right away:1. It was very nicely packaged in a sturdy box and all the components had their own cardboard compartments and fabric sleeves. Again, very nicely done.2. Acer provided a lot of very nice extras that I didn't really expect when first looking at this tablet. Along with the tablet itself, you get the charger, a very nice Bluetooth keyboard, a plastic docking station that contains 3 USB 3.0 ports and easily goes between landscape and portrait mode, a sweet leather carrying case that also acts as a stand (landscape mode only, but sets up in keyboard (typing) mode as well as video (upright) mode.), and a HDMI to VGA adapter for plugging the tablet into a monitor or TV. All in all, great accessories! With the case and keyboard, I don't even need the dock, but it's still nice to have for the extra USB ports.3. The screen is very bright and the color is rich. Right away I turned the brightness down to about half-way and that suited me just fine. The capacitive touch screen is very responsive and works well.4. I used it pretty consistently through one battery cycle, and was very impressed with the battery life. Now, I'm not a gamer and I wasn't doing much of anything too taxing on the CPU, but with that I was able to get around 10-11 hours out of it. Comparable to iPad, I'd say.5. The boot-up and shut-down times are phenomenal. I've recently moved to Windows 8 on my laptop and noticed a considerable cut-down in loading time, but on this tablet with its solid-state drive, it blew my laptop out of the water. It must have loaded from total shutdown in like 6 seconds.6. The tablet is a little bit weighty, but I expected that. With more power under the hood, I wouldn't expect it to be as light as an iPad 2. It's only a bit awkward if you're walking about while holding on to it with one hand and using it. Sitting down in a chair or at a desk is great, though.7. Seeing as the resolution is so high on this screen, it made it very difficult to tap the really little buttons and menu items in Desktop mode. I had to go into the Control Panel and set text and desktop items to appear larger. At first I tried lowering the resolution, but making the text larger made everything bigger without losing the crispness of the objects, and did not affect programs that require the higher resolution (except for Chrome somehow...I think it did something there. IE worked fine, however) But anyway, with this setting, it made it a lot more comfortable to tap about in Desktop mode, which I spend most of my time in.I'm rating the hardware and quality of this tablet at a 4.5 out of 5.Now...here's where I had to knock stars off. A lot...When you first start the tablet up and are sent to the home screen, you'll notice TWO ENTIRE CLUSTERS of apps all the way to the right. These apps do NOT come with Windows 8. They are apps that Acer has pre-loaded onto the device. Most PC manufacturers do this...seems simple enough to uninstall, right? MAYBE. Some people aren't aware of the messiness that uninstalling programs leaves behind. Files and registry keys are left astray, leaving space for system errors and compatibility issues with other software. This normally does not bother me with a few uninstalls here or there. But try a list of about 20 useless apps and games and trial crapware! The one that really nailed me was McAfee. They had a trial version of the McAfee antivirus software already loaded on the device, waiting for me to say "oh hell yeah! I'd love to purchase a subscription!"Well, too bad, I already have Norton 360 purchased and waiting to be installed. I uninstalled all of the bloatware, ran CCleaner to hopefully remove files and registry keys, and tried installing Norton. The first thing I see is an error message warning me about McAfee being installed on my PC, and gives me an option to uninstall it. But I already did! What to do...I hunted through my Program Files folders and deleted anything related to McAfee and ran CCleaner again. Norton installed smoothly after this. Tis a shame it never ran...it opened up once, choked on an error and died. Permanently. I tried to uninstall Norton to reinstall it, but the uninstaller had fatal errors too. So here I am left with an un-protected Windows tablet that I can't get any decent AV software onto. Not to mention Office 2010 installed with errors due to the uninstallation of a TRIAL of Office 2010!Alright, I'll contact Acer. Maybe there is a simple recovery utility in Windows that can bring me to square one. They tell me to go into the PC settings and fire that up...nope, Windows can't find the resources. It must have been an Acer utility that I had deleted. Great... So I asked the guy on the phone if there is any way possible to install JUST the OS and not the bloatware. Got a quick and stern "NO". At that point I had gotten a little frustrated and I shouldn't have been mean with the poor guy but I ended up yelling about how much it sucks that after spending $800 on a new device, I'm stuck with s***ty software that eats up more than half my disk space, eats up memory, uses CPU, clutters up the programs list, and then causes massive problems once uninstalled! I went through this with Dell once way back in the XP days, and they were actually nice enough to send me an Operating System disc. These guys would not do that.Finally he just told me to buy a retail copy of Windows if I wanted it so badly. I caved and bought Windows 8 Pro, with the intention of making a bootable USB drive out of it (since it's a tablet, hence, no optical drive). I formatted my 16GB USB stick to be a UEFI FAT32 bootable drive with the Win8 ISO image mounted to it. To my surprise, the device does not have the ability to boot to a USB device that is not an external DVD drive. Wtf? It'll boot USB but not USB storage media? So now I'm going to have to go out and buy an external disc reader, since I'm committed to trying to get Windows 8 Pro on this thing (I can't return that).I'm rating the software on this tablet a ZERO out of 5.If I can just wipe the tablet clean, format the hell out of it, and set it up like I currently have my notebook PC set up, all would be well and it would be a fantastic-quality tool of productivity.It's just a shame I'm ending up having to spend so much extra money to get this $800 tablet to work the way I want. If I wanted to be told how I should use my PC, I would have stuck with Apple. Maybe I should have just gotten the Surface Pro. I've now spent about what that costs anyway.EDIT: AFTER HAVING THIS TABLET FOR ONE WEEK...After using an external DVD drive to install a retail copy of Windows 8 Pro, this tablet rules. It runs very fast, and very efficiently. So, all I have to say is that if you are willing to wipe the tablet clean and start from scratch with a fresh OS install, it's an AMAZING tablet. If you plan on leaving it the way Acer provides it to you, it just may suck, depending on what you want it for. I highly recommend the device, with a fresh install. And don't forget to install drivers from Acer.com and Windows Update!
21 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
This is what a tablet should be like...
By Mike B.
For anyone looking for an incredible tablet, look no further. Allow me to explain that I have owned an Acer Iconia a500 for about a year before deciding to purchase this tablet. I was a bit skeptical in the need to purchase another tablet since I already owned one. I should also add, people often ask me why not purchase an IPad, to which I reply, I really need a device that is more for work than it is for light usage. I design a lot of PowerPoints for work and the IPad and Iconia a500 although capable within their own rights, just couldn't keep up with what I needed. Finally I decided to take the plunge and go into the Windows 8 market after testing it out on my main laptop. I will break down several things I have noticed in the time (roughly a week) that I have been using it.Pros:+ An actual PC with the real Windows 8! I tried the Surface RT and wasn't liking what it was for the price. It basically amounted to a regular tablet with MS Office thrown in. This is the real version of Windows. Want to install a legacy program? Go ahead, it'll install. Want to install a PC game? Go ahead, it'll handle it.+ The included accessories are outrageously generous for the price. In the package you get (1) dock, (1) case for the tablet, (1) Bluetooth keyboard, (1) micro hdmi to VGA adapter. For the price, this is a no-brained. It was really all the added things that sold me on the device. Except for the dock, these are all great accessories (more on that later).+ Bluetooth keyboard actually works well. I'm very picky when it comes to keyboards. The spacing has to be right in order for me to type normally and this one is perfect. The keys respond well and looks nice. It has a metallic look to it with white keys. The keyboard is plastic though, so don't go dropping it, I'm pretty sure it won't look great with chips missing.+ 11.6" screen is very nice and not as uncomfortable to type on as I expected. The screen resolution will go all the way up to 1920 x 1080 but unless you have amazing vision or like really tiny font when reading, that is impractical. I actually purposely drop it down to 1366 x 768 in order to accurately hit buttons in desktop mode.+ Speakers are very loud and not tinny when playing music.+ 3.0 USB port that will work with anything. Seriously, I've tried random connectors I have.+ Price. The Core i3 model, which honestly, unless you are a graphic design person or plan on running a bunch of programs simultaneously, is more than adequate. I have this model and it never lags. It has not stuttered once and has run flawlessly. The price for this model is well below what the Surface pro will cost and you get almost the same thing, except for the i5 processor. You can purchase that model for a higher price, but as I mentioned, you really won't need it.Cons:- Weight is not that bad, but I guess I am used to the feel of my iconia a500 and it tends to throw me off a little. Not heavy at all, just I guess it is a personal issue where I tend to think I'm picking up a lighter tablet.- Windows will eat about 32 GB so be ready for that. Microsoft does give 7 GB of space in SkyDrive, but really, Windows needs to trim the fat. I understand technically you have two OS's here but if you only have 64GB initially, losing half your memory hurts.- Rear camera is laughable. Then again, you just look weird taking a picture with a tablet.-/+ Honestly didn't know if this was a pro or con, so I'll just place it in the con section. Battery life is advertised at 9 hours. I'm getting from 6-7 with medium brightness and WiFi on all the time. I'm sure you can hit the 9 hour mark, but mileage may vary here.-/+ Again, this is one of those its good and bad things...the dock is okay. It is ugly and plastic but it gets the job done. It will expand your USB from one plug to three, which is great to have if you plan on using several things at home. The dock is rather large and just a pain to use. I opted to place mine in a box somewhere in my closet. I use the sleeve it came with instead. Even that is an ugly brown, but hey its free and actually feels like quality.That pretty much sums up the iconia w700 for me. I've also noted some reviewers will complain about features which are actually issues with Windows 8. If you are reading this review, I've tried to review solely this product and not Windows 8. If Windows 8 is what worries you, it has a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, it feels much more fluid and "organic" than other Windows in the past. As for the iconia w700, it works flawlessly and just overall amazing. Oh and yes, I typed this all on the touchscreen keypad on the iconia.I hope this helped some of you that may be on the fence. Acer did an amazing job here so fear not, it is a quality product.Update 1/20 - I'm experiencing the random wifi issues some have described. It happens to me when switching networks between places. The connection seems to hang for a while then drop. After this initial hiccup I don't have problems with the wifi. My solution to this has been to bring up the charms as soon as I notice a disconnect and enable then disable airplane mode. I haven't had any issues upon doing this for the random disconnects.
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