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so today I have an unboxing of something that's very cool and very exciting this is the Acer Iconia Tab w 500 this is a tablet PC it is using Windows 7 ok so let's just go over what it says on the box and then we'll get more into the fit and finish of the overall product once we get inside you can see it has a 10.1 inch multi-touch led-backlit LCD supports HDMI it has Wi-Fi which it bloody well better that's gonna pretend to be a tablet ok we've also got evidently a keyboard so let's go ahead and get this all let's have a look at the specs so here we are we have Windows 7 home premium 32-bit AMD dual core processor C 50 BAM that's the surprise because that is not only see you see how they have that listed as a processor not as a CPU well the reason is that this is an APU this is an AMD fusion tablet so it uses the C 50 APU which means it has a CPU and a GPU built in to one die pretty sweet 10.1 inch multi-touch HD LED LCD 2 gigs of memory 32 gig SSD - and one card reader Wireless an 1.3 megapixel webcam and a 3 cell lithium ion battery now think about that 3 cell lithium ion battery you might go all 3 cell probably does enough great battery life well with AMD fusion we're talking about a whole different ball of wax because fusion uses very very little power due to the efficiency of the design ok so here's a little install guide for using the plug apparently you can rotate the plug should you so desire excellent here's an international travelers warranty as well as a QuickStart guide next we have a setup and configuration guide which probably shows you a couple useful tricks and tips alright and let's go ahead and take this off find the tablet itself so if you have any more accessories first oh yeah okay so there's our keyboard okay over here so there's our there's our power adapter so this is what they mean by being able to rotate it I suppose so you can put it this way or no I don't think it goes in that way oh yeah okay it looks like you gotta lock it in there we go there alright so why don't we pull out the tablet portion first okay I was actually already playing around with this so I apologize in advance for the fact that it's got a couple fingerprints on it but you guys can deal all right so go ahead press the button here okay please wait we're gonna get into Windows 10 home premium the default user is logged in there we go all that camera man have a look at that while I dig out the keyboard so that I can show that to you guys cuz that is a very cool little feature so let's get all this stuff out of our way so we can make room just for the product itself okay and here we go so let's do a quick tour of the device so here is a Windows button alright that's pretty much it for buttons on the front of the device so everything is multi-touch ready it is accelerated by a DirectX 11 GPU so that means that not only do you have support for your multi-touch but you're going to have full video acceleration for anything that is a direct compute OpenCL that's what you get with DirectX 11 as well as Windows Aero glass so let's move around to the side here we've got our HDMI output as well as an SD card reader okay we've got our volume up and down power we've got a headphone jack there's a low battery LED indicator down here we've got a ventilation port we've also got our webcam right there moving this way we've got yet another webcam okay on the other side we have power in and then finally on the bottom we're gonna find USB as well as a couple of pegs for mounting this to the included keyboard this appears to be some kind of law I guess there's an orientation lock yeah so it does have an accelerometer which means that you can hold it this way there we go over this way just like that it'll resize your desktop and now let's have a look at the keyboard itself so what you do is you evidently lift this up and plug it in so USB is gonna power and give us an interface to this little included keyboard we've got one of those old-school style rubber thing in the middle of the key I actually really like this I used to I used to use this on a really old laptop that I had if you've got two hands to use it this is one of the best mousing interfaces I believe that has ever graced notebooks everywhere so I'm personally a big fan of that the keyboard is a on this particular demo unit a Singh unilingual or mono lingual whatever you prefer to call it is only one language so you've got full-size shift keys full-sized Enter key you've got a full-size backspace key now the keyboard is quite small but remember this is only a 10.1 inch screen so that's pretty much what we have to deal with now the most exciting thing about this tablet slash sub notebook by a longshot is and diffusion so give me a second I'm gonna get connected to our Wi-Fi and I'm going to show you guys some of the advantages of AMD fusion so here's our fusion tablet running my personal favorite YouTube HD video so we've got Big Buck Bunny running I'm actually gonna find a more action-packed part to skip to for you guys oh yeah this'll do okay so you can see the playback is quite smooth now remember the DirectX 11 component well I can't really call it a GPU it's very challenging so the DirectX 11 graphics processor in the APU which is part of the APU is capable not only of accelerating flash it's also good for html5 and it's going to give you the capability of using Direct compute and OpenCL applications as well which is something that a non DirectX 11 compliant part will not allow you to do now the c50 inside this particular tablet I'm just going to go ahead and close down ie here all right let's go to task manager so it is a dual-core processor you can see the CPU usage is quite high even so we do have video running in the background and so it's splitting the load between the CPU and the GPU components of the APU I'm going to go ahead and turn that off but it is a dual core so you can see that in the task manager and it's a nine watt part so I want to show you guys the total system power consumption let me turn my video back on in full-screen mode here and I can go ahead and do that there we go and here we are so total system power consumption remember this is a rough ballpark figure is about 36 watts for the entire tablet so what that means is better battery life better performance and more overall capabilities for a fusion tablet like this don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos