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it's Windows 10 ready hybrid that doesn't give you a lot but also doesn't cost a lot I'm Dan Ackerman and this is the Acer switch 10 II it's a Windows 10 laptop / tablet hybrid with as you can probably tell from a 10.1 inch screen unlike a lot of other hybrids this one uses probably my favorite mechanism for joining a tablet screen and a keyboard basin at a magnetic hinge so if you just pull on it like this it pops off cleanly it's actually a very strong magnet so if you get close to it it'll actually pull itself on fairly well and it's pretty easy to put together and you can lift it up like this and the keyboard will stay attached now all the components in here in the battery and everything else in the Atom CPU from Intel they're all behind the screen here which means the tablet part is pretty heavy and and the keyboard base is kind of light if you're not careful you give it a little bit of a push it's actually very top-heavy can tilt over backwards but you do get one nice bonus in the keyboard base and that's a separate 500 gigabyte hard drive on top of the smaller you know 32 or 64 gigabyte SSD here in the display so you have more storage here for when you plug it in and you can even set it up so that when you pull the tablet half off that encrypts the hard drive in the keyboard base so no one will be able to like steal your keyboard take the hard drive out and access the data on it you do cut a couple of corners because this thing is fairly inexpensive this configuration is 300 dollars or a few variations that cost a little bit more a little bit less you've only got a 1280 by 800 resolution display obviously a lower power Intel Atom processor and it's got this really wide black bezel around the screen that really just makes the screen feel even smaller than it is it's also a bit on the heavy side about three pounds all together which is more than a lot of 13-inch laptops weigh even though this is a much smaller system this isn't the kind of machine you're going to use all day every day but low cost small screen hybrids like this have their place usually for a secondary laptop or for traveling if you'd like to see more read our full review on cnn.com and that is the acer switch 10e