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I'm Dan acronym we are here taking a look at the acer iconia w3 it's a bit of unique system in thats a full windows 8 tablet but it's only got an 8 inch screen most of the windows 8 tablets and hybrids that we've seen have 11 inch screen as 13 inch screens are a little bit bigger this is closer in theory to something like an iPad Mini or an Android tablet but of course it's running full Windows 8 which works well on a small touchscreen as long as you stick to sort of this tile based display right here if you go back to the traditional Windows desktop it's going to be pretty hard to manipulate of course this is running an intel atom chip which keeps it sort of low powered means a battery lasts a long time but it's not great for every task that you're going to want to do with your tablet or your laptop it's good for web surfing they're made for watching some video social media email things like that anything more complicated you're going to want to move up for more full power at laptop or tablet or hybrid now even though I ended up liking the w3 more than I thought it would it did have a couple of near fatal flaws that really turn me off one the screen frankly is not great if you look at it from even a little bit of an angle you lose the image very quickly it has kind of a gauzy not super sharp quality to it and then there's this keyboard dock that's a seventy dollar and on the tablet itself is the 379 24 29 depending on how big the hard drive is keyboard dock it's bigger that's kind of weird right but it's based on a 13 inch keyboard it's actually pretty comfortable for typing on the big problem is it doesn't have a touchpad or even a track pointer anyway to control the cursor on screen so you're basically typing and either using an external mouse or using your finger to try to navigate which if you ever tried that on a very tiny screen is very very difficult so I've give the w3 a lot of credit for being a very inexpensive full Windows 8 touchscreen device that actually has a usable keyboard accessory you can get but that lack of a touchpad and the poor screen quality kind of make it not a very good productivity device maybe you want to spend a little bit more and trade up to something a little bit better i'm dan ackerman and then Acer Iconia w3