Acer launches $150 Windows tablet, upgrades machine offerings

A time before, Acer ushered in the sphere of a new to the job generation of 8-inch Windows medicine with an offering with the aim of, sadly, underperformed the category’s budding. This fall, Acer has made its Windows medicine even cheaper, while marginally humanizing its machine tablet outline.

By the side of IFA 2014 in the sphere of Berlin, Acer announced three new to the job medicine: The Iconia Tab 8 W, the subsequently of Acer’s 8-inch Windows medicine; a bigger, 10-inch Iconia Tab 10 machine tablet; and the Iconia single 8, which adds an 8-inch option to the existing 7-inch Iconia single.

Although Acer didn’t divulge pricing on behalf of the new to the job Iconia single, the company has emphasized the low cost of both of its Iconia Tabs. The Tab 8 W yearn for survive to be had this November on behalf of definitely $150, while the Iconia Tab 10 yearn for survive priced by the side of $199 and liner this month. By contrast, Acer’s at the outset Iconia W3 tablet retails on behalf of $200.

Whilst customers think of Windows medicine, they nearly everyone likely think at the outset of the break the surface, Microsoft’s line of well-engineered, overpriced Windows medicine. Acer’s openly headed in the sphere of the opposite direction. On behalf of the $1,949 cost of a single meat i7/512GB break the surface Pro 3, you may well bad deal 13 Tab 8 Ws. And there's an other bonus, too: Both Iconia 8 W tablet ships with a year's complimentary administrative center 365 individual subscription, which is worth $70 all by itself.

The difference in the sphere of performance, however, may well survive striking. Although the Iconia Tab 8 W includes a additional powerful Intel Atom Z3735G “Bay Trail” computer, it just ropes 1GB of RAM—a step down from April’s $350 Acer Iconia W4, which integrated 2GB of remembrance. Both the W3 and the W4 suffered from a lackluster 1,280x800 put on show. While the Tab 8 W uses with the aim of same solution, the panel at present boasts IPS machinery, expectantly resolving the washed-out look of the earlier models. But by the side of definitely 9.75mm thick and 370 grams, you can’t hit it on behalf of its portability. That’s lighter (and smaller) than the one-pound iPad Air.

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Acer’s Iconia Tab 10 machine tablet, which the company announced by the side of IFA.

Acer additionally thought it has kept back its Acer Crunch baby grand abettor platform, which allows it to survive used on the die.

There's single other on the cards drawback: The tablet includes the complimentary version of Windows, aka Windows 8.1 with Bing. So search yearn for default to Microsoft's search engine, which isn't all with the aim of bad; bearing in mind all, Microsoft yearn for give you to function it.

Better, better machine options
In the sphere of can, Acer launched the Acer Iconia Tab 8 and the Iconia single 7. At present, the company has on hand bigger options in the sphere of both families, with a 10-inch Iconia Tab 10 complementing a new to the job 8-inch Iconia single 8.

The Iconia single 8 uses the same Intel Atom Z3735G computer and 1,280x800 IPS put on show to the same degree the Tab 8 W, but on a diet: The tablet is 8.5mm thick and definitely 340 grams in the sphere of all.  Acer thought the put on show includes a new to the job anti-fingerprint coating, and its back cover includes texturing to concoct it additional fractious to permit it slip through your fingers. It ships in the sphere of a amount of color options: Olive, yello, orange, sky blue, ashen, black, pink, purple, and red. Otherwise, it runs machine 4.4 (KitKat).

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