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i'm dan ackerman and we are here to take a look at the acer iconia w700 this is one of those new windows 8 products that got a touch screen it's primarily a slate style tablet but there's a little touch of a hybrid or convertible in there as well I will say this is one of the more polarizing products that we've taken a look here at some people have seen the design and really disliked it especially the large set of l-shaped bracket docking stand I happen to think it's at least a little bit different than a lot of the other products we've seen it almost has a little bit of a retro sci-fi quality to it so I'm willing to give it a little bit of a pass there I do like that this is a full intel core i5 slate style tablet here so it doesn't really compromise on performance you've also got a 128 gig SSD so every reasonable amount of storage space it's almost like an ultrabook except for the keyboard is detached now it includes this wireless Bluetooth keyboard and this docking stand that gives you a free extra USB 3.1 it does not have any sort of mouse or trackpad or any sort of pointer device control like that you're going to have to add that whether it's a mouse or I used an external logitech click pad and you can just sink that up and that gives you much more of a traditional desktop experience which is especially important because even though windows 8 works a lot better with touch and has this sort of tile based interface here it's still not a fully satisfying tablet only experience in order to do regular productivity work you're really going to want something kind of like this now when you want to take it with you you just pull it out of the dock like this and then it becomes a slate style tablet it actually is one of the better accelerometers I've seen in these it just switches orientation like this I haven't seen any get stuck yet which is pretty rare for a Windows 8 device but then when you're ready to plug it back in you just slide it right back in here although every time I do it it switches back to the traditional desktop view and then I have to go back to the windows 8 UI a one other nice surprise about the w700 really great battery life on our fairly tough battery test it ran for more than seven hours which is excellent especially compared to a lot of the other windows 8 products that we test us i'm dan ackerman and then is the acer iconia w700