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danta with the verge looking at the Acer Aspire a seven which was just announced here in New York City it's a a new laptop that has a hinge they're calling a ezel hinge it allows the screen to completely allows it to have complete freedom basically you can move it however you want it has a touchscreen obviously for windows 8 and you can open it in a regular laptop mode like this and you can close it here's the hinge and when you open it up you can pop it out through the sides there's a lot of tension in the hinge she can keep it however you want interestingly asus decided to move the touch pad to the back here so you can put it in a mode like that a little bit like the Microsoft Surface has a backlit keyboard it's powered by a dual-core 1.2 hurts Intel processor and we don't have much information on pricing but it can be available exclusively from bestbuy here in the United States and that's the acer aspire a seven hey guys this is david with a virgin we're looking at the acer aspire p3 they just announced it to the internet new york city they're calling it the world's first ultrabook convertible so on the one hand it's kind of like a laptop it has a keyboard and a big screen here and it's powered by an Intel processor has a 5-megapixel camera 10-point multi-touch so it's a pretty normal windows 8 machine and it even has kind of a really nice keyboard here but it also it pops out of its little sort of clumsy deck at slums clumsy box here it becomes just sort of a regular windows 8 tablet it's kind of thick and kind of heavy but it's super powerful of his Dolby home theater audio it has you know pretty regular ultrabook specs and they promise super long battery life it's a pretty interesting idea it's kind of like the Microsoft Surface in that it's definitely designed to be a tablet but also work in a dock when it's docked it is a little awkward and flimsy and folds down it has pen support and it's again it's kind of thick for a tablet but certainly superlight for a laptop it's going to be coming out soon no word yet on price or availability for any of Oda stirs announced but it's a pretty interesting new thing it's an ultrabook convertible and I bet we can start to see a lot of those so that is the acer aspire p3 now we're taking a look at the iconia a1 it's the only tablet acer launched today and in some ways it's kind of the least interesting product it does basically everything the ipad mini it does it has a 1024 x 768 display which is you know decent-looking it's seven point nine inches it has two things that are interesting about it there's a five finger gesture where you just tap on the screen with all five fingers and it'll wake it up and kick to whatever particular app you choose so in this case it goes to the calendar and then there's another app there's another one oops where it's off and you do it with two thumbs and it will launch into another app otherwise this is basically the nexus 7 in the body of the ipad mini it's relatively stock Android there's not a lot of extra apps or anything here not a lot of skinning going on but it's also just generally not that interesting what is interesting is the 169 dollar price it is a quad-core processor it runs pretty well and it's one hundred and sixty dollars less than the cheapest ipad mini for an android tablet with basically the same specs and what appears to be you know a half decent setup here plus pretty cool features with gestures so it's a little big and a little thick it feels like kind of a knockoff iPad Mini but it's cheap so what can you expect that is the acer iconia a1 the new tablet just launched today