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have we found a windows pull apart two-in-one hybrid that actually kind of works i'm dan ackerman if this is the acer aspire switch 10 it's another one in an endless stream seems of hybrid systems those are windows laptops and also transformed into tablets and maybe have some in between modes unlike a lot of those other guys I actually have a fairly positive view of the switch 10 I find it shockingly easy to use it doesn't have a big clunky button or hooks that you have to detach in order to to remove the tablet screen or twist it around it's basically two little sticks that come up with a magnetic catch I'll show you just kind of hold it like this regular clamshell laptop and then you just lift up on this part and it comes up right off and then you can use this as a tablet reasonably thin Windows 8 tablet and then you can just slide it back on its not the it's not a you're not gonna get a hundred percent every time but I got a better percentage of getting the tablet on the first take on this system that I have with a lot of other hybrids I also like that you can flip it around like this it's reversible and put the screen on backwards and that gives you what I call kind of that kiosk mode like this for like presentations or you can fold the whole thing down and have kind of a thicker tablet I don't know why you'd want that but it's kind of the yoga style and you can of course just carry around just the tablet with it so switched end avoids the biggest problem with these hybrids in that you can actually put the two parts together fairly easily it's not a huge clunky hinge mechanism now as a small evidence laptop it's okay the keyboard is acceptable not fantastic the touchscreen response is actually really good this has got an intel atom processor in it so it's not super speedy if someone's yukonos netbook level performance output for a small screen or just for a tablet especially if you're going to use the windows 8 tile interface here or these apps it's actually fine now how much you're going to pay for all this you can get this version which has a 64 gig SSD hard drive that's kind of small really for about 3 99 if you cut it down to 32 gigs you can find it for 350 frankly I'd spend the extra 50 bucks and get just a little bit of extra hard drive space I think 32 is probably too small for most people to use just restoring just the basic stuff they use all the time I'm don't ackman that's the acer aspire switched 10