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this video is brought to you by Coolermaster mobile featuring the jazz pro notebook stand check it out at mobile cooler master - usa.com welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Acer Iconia W 700 tablet now unlike most of the tablets we've seen in the last few years actually this is not an ARM based design or an iPad or anything that requires a special operating system to run this is an Intel based so that is an x86 based tablet that comes in at a pretty high price point although when you compare it to something like you know a 64 gig iPad honestly it's not that unreasonable it's a little under a thousand bucks but has the ability to run a full-blown Windows 8 operating system with all of the fixings and it looks like this is an eval unit so these sound the seals are already broken but why don't we do a quick run through the specs before we get started so Windows 8 64-bit intel core i5 3317 use so it's a 1.6 gig or 1.7 gigahertz rather CPU that turbo is up to 2.6 gigahertz it's an 11.6 inch multi-touch full HD display it comes with 4 gigs of memory 128 gig SSD which i think is pretty cool it also has a factor that that that's in my notes somewhere whatever I can't find it something milliamp hour battery that's basically good for six hours of fairly heavy use or as much as nine hours of fairly light use it's sort of not counting any standby time so there's a variety of different configurations it's available with different amounts of our different sizes of drive and it's available with different accessories and all that kind of stuff but the config that we have comes with a keyboard dock so this is what makes it so Acer feels they are bridging the gap between tablet and notebook because the power is somewhere in between a tablet and a notebook with a core i7 but not a particular or rather a core i5 but not a particularly fast one and the form factor is somewhere between a tablet and notebook much like a Microsoft Surface pro just because it is a little bit on the thicker side so it comes with a faux leather carrying case that there we go yeah go away take that off that has okay a place to put the tablet inside it here that's got kind of a plastic backing to protect it has this is actually quite nice has a keyboard a full keyboard that you can then prop the tablet up in so just like that so let's go ahead and pull the tablet out and see how she looks so it's a little bit on the thicker side compared to again you know your iPad or your your Asus Transformer or any kind of arm-based design but that's because it has to accommodate the cooling needed for an intel basically what amounts to an ultrabook processor so it's hard to get the form factor much slimmer than what they've done here so you can see there's two vents down here on the bottom as well as an orientation lock oh okay is that an orientation lock button or is that the power button guess we'll find out in a moment here on the side here we've got oh no that's power volume rocker as well as a headphone microphone jack on the bottom you've got two speakers so stereo speakers on the bottom the tablet is meant to be used in portrait or a rather in landscape mode and then on the other side we find DC power in USB 3 which is one of them really nice things about these Windows 8 tablets or really any tablet that has USB 3 is nice to have USB 3 on and finally we've got micro HDMI out which actually allows you to use it as a notebook computer if you just kind of plug it into a dock as well as a USB 3 hub so and then you can use micro HDMI to output to any desktop monitor so in terms of included accessories we've got a power adapter which looks a little something like that go have a look at that there's an iPhone size comparison for you then we've got the power cord that goes with that we've also got a USB charging cable so a USB charging cable looks a little something like that it just uses standard or rather no that's a data transfer cable so that's micro USB for data transfer here is our power cord alright next up we've got this is handy so they actually include a micro HDMI to VGA adapter so if you're gonna use this for presentations or whatever else on the road they include that so you have not only digital output but also analog output from the tablet itself more accessories wow there's a lot of stuff and Here I am really running out of space pretty quickly so we're gonna ditch some of these things and yeah we have more space so it comes with a cleaning cloth there you go a little nice little white microfiber cleaning cloth a bunch of DVDs although I don't know where they're expecting you to put those it does not have an optical Bay in case you guys are wondering international travelers warranty is a nice thing to have because if you move or whatever else there are devices where your warranty does not come with you which I've always thought is bizarre and I'm glad to see that trend really turning around all right more components here now if there's any complaints that I've seen about this particular tablet it's that compared to the build quality of the tablet itself the dock is a little bit a little bit less than less than equally satisfactory compared to that I mean I've had people come out as far as to say the build quality of the dock is very disappointing compared to the tablet so this is this is plastic this piece slides into presumably here and allows you to dock the tablet like this so you could actually use the unit as a secondary monitor here actually I can lift this up you could use the unit as a secondary monitor I have no idea what you're talking about alright so we figured out the dock stand so yeah it's a little bit not quite up to the same standard of build quality as the tablet itself although this is as much a compliment for the tablet as it is sort of a knock against the stand here so it can be configured in portrait like this just like that or it can be configured in landscape mode like this okay well I didn't get it in that time so there it should go in like that and then it can sit in landscape mode like that there you go that's how it looks like from the back yeah like it's really not the best thing in the world ever but the tablet itself is absolutely gorgeous so we're just going to show how it fits in here just just once and so you kind of put in like that there's little rubber pieces here soft plastic pieces they keep it from getting scratched as you plug it in and this actually gives you a little bit more in terms of i/o so there's your vents on the top so you're still going to get all the cooling you need and it expands that single USB 3 to 3 USB 3 port so you actually plug in all the peripherals you need and all that it also adds a pass-through for the power in and last but not least you still have access to your micro HDMI so you're still going to be able to use it as like a dual monitor setup or you could even just tuck it away in the corner and just use a full desktop keyboard and mouse and all that good stuff which is which is a really nice thing the only thing that I would have liked to see added would be wired LAN as like I'd like it with a an adapter chipset USB 3 2 wired LAN in here that way you really have more like a desktop experience so let's go ahead and pull it out of that and put it into the travel case that also comes with this particular setup so there we go it's not quite the same level of elegance as something like Microsoft's touch keyboard or type keyboard but what it does do is it does actually protect the unit in a meaningful way so around the edges you've got a soft a soft rubber that comes around all of the aluminum edges and actually fits quite snugly which makes sense because it's designed just for this device this device only and that was the worst German accent anyone's ever heard ever but you know whatever you guys don't watch this show for my German accent I'm sure so there you go so you can see what that looks like it folds down on top so this is Gorilla Glass 2 so I wouldn't worry too much about damaging it one way or the other but it folds down on to turn the screen back on there six little rubber pads that are on the keyboard itself so that it's not just gonna mash itself up against this is plastic so I probably wouldn't be likely to scratch it anyway but it's not going to mash itself up against the keyboard and leave those imprints on the screen that you've seen time and time again with various notebooks in terms of the thickness once you get it covered in the faux leather casing as well as the the plastic housing you've got a size here that looks sort of wonder what are we at we're at about triple the thickness of something like an iPhone and honestly compared to something like an s7 which you guys have probably seen if you've been watching my live streams because I usually put it in front of me these days so when s7 is actually not that much bigger see like that so it's a 13 point something inch model 13.3 inch but as actually quite a bit thinner so an ultrabook if you don't need that tablet form factor sometimes may end up being a better solution for you because they do usually end up being a little bit more powerful whereas that one's a little bit more expensive so I guess it's a wide variety of trade-offs but anyway that's what it looks like in more like a notebook configuration the screen itself goes up - let me just have a look here there we go screen brightness yay nice a nice bright screen so it's very very vibrant it uses an IPS panel so the viewing angles are outstanding I mean this is something that we've kind of come to expect from tablets now but I'm really glad that that hold trend of sort of cheap tablets with cheap panels turned around can you see the viewing angle pretty well there or you can I can't you were waving at yourself oh okay okay well I wasn't watching him do that the keyboard itself has a bilingual layout because this is a Canadian model but not all of them will have that so that's gonna vary depending on the territory that you're operating within and I'm just going to switch back to my word document where I have my notes for myself so I can see if there's anything else I need to tell you about this guy so let's make this more of a summary than anything else it's got a 720p front camera a 1080p rear camera Bluetooth Wi-Fi and all that stuff that you've come to expect it comes with a dock it comes with sort of the accessories that you really really need out of the box although I think probably the most exceptional thing about it is much like the s7 this is a new Acer in terms of build quality because I mean when I got my hands on the s7 I'd seen pictures and I knew that it was supposed to be really nice but I still wasn't quite expecting what ended up getting delivered to me so there's absolutely no flex in it it's absolutely gorgeous you can see there's only one gap in the solid aluminum body here so I'm gonna try and show that to the camera and that's up in this top strip right here which I'm assuming is something to do with antenna reception because we've seen a few tablets that have solid metal backings that have ended up with reception issues on their wireless wireless interfaces you get a 1080p screen which is really really nice in a small form-factor like this but one of the challenges is that when you're not using the upsy daisy's when you're not using the modern UI you may find yourself you may find yourself in a situation where it's not really that easy to read text or that easy to use it unless you blow things up when you're in more like the the classic interface one thing that I should probably mention is if you do a Fivefinger thing like this you get into a sirs little launcher here where you can store some favorite apps including their cloud document storage backup manager also shows you like your device settings and all that cool stuff remember that's not the only way to access that stuff you can also swipe in from the side and I forgot this before but it was 315 it brightness on the IPS screen so that's actually pretty outstanding and I think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking out this unboxing your first look at the Acer Iconia W 700 don't forget to subscribe - tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos