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One of my least favorite things about this tablet is the amount of time required to charge the device. It took the device up to five hours to charge from near empty battery levels, which is far too long in my book. A good device should be able to go from near zero to a full charge within one to three hours. Unfortunately, that is not a standard that the W510 can meet.The built in cameras are also not particularly good on the W510. The eight megapixel rear facing camera produced images that looked grainy even on the device's less than one megapixel screen. The front facing camera managed to lower the bar even more by producing images that looked like they were from a late nineties web cam. While this kind of a camera experience isn't unusual on competitive tablets, the W510's cameras certainly doesn't allow it to stand out from the rest of the pack.Without delving too deeply into the software side of the equation, it's worth noting that this Iconia with battery such as Dell Inspiron 8500 Ac Adapter, Dell Inspiron 8200 Ac Adapter, Dell Inspiron 640M Ac Adapter, Dell Inspiron 4150 Ac Adapter, Dell Inspiron 2600 Ac Adapter, Dell Inspiron 2150 Ac Adapter, Dell Inspiron 2200 Ac Adapter, Dell Inspiron 1300 Ac Adapter, Dell Inspiron 1200 Ac Adapter, Dell Inspiron 510M Ac Adapter, Dell Inspiron C500 Ac Adapter, Dell Inspiron C510 Ac Adapter tablet provides a very smooth and fluid Windows 8 experience. The touch screen really makes Windows 8 come alive, and after a few days of use I found myself absentmindedly trying to poke icons on non-touch screen monitors. The only place that I encountered any system lag was when I was using the Fresh Paint application to quickly draw a large brush width across a wide portion of the screen. But other than that one little slow down I found W510 to be well suited the Windows 8 operating system.
Acer has seen fit to integrate its own control panel like application into this device. This app allows you to quickly adjust a few key settings like WiFi and screen brightness levels, in addition to an optional cloud-based document back-up service. While these features are useful in their own right; it's hard to see much of a place for them living alongside Windows 8's cloud centric apps and simple charms based functionality. Acer's app just feels redundant inside of the larger Windows 8 experience.For a long time Intel's drivers have been the Achilles heel of their new platforms; and the drivers for this system are no exception to that trend. After leaving the tablet alone in my kitchen for a few hours I came back only to find that it had blue screened trying to enter a low power state. I also noticed graphical corruption inside of the Fresh Paint app, when I brought the system out of hibernation. Admittedly, these aren't show stopping bugs, but they certainly aren't a welcome addition to the Windows 8 experience either.
Overall the Iconia W510 is a prime example of the Windows 8 convertible experience. It's difficult for me to move past the fact that it's essentially an overbuilt netbook. I really wish that Acer had taken the time to come up with a more attractive looking design for this tablet. The whole sliver, white, and black color scheme has been a bit over done lately. But the biggest issue that I have with this system is how little Acer managed to leverage the options that a discrete docking station gave them. A single USB port is pretty pitiful considering how much space they had to work with. But more to the point, I honestly prefer to use the on-screen keyboard over the keyboard on the docking station purely because it's easier for me to type with the larger keys. How cursed I am to have big fingers.
This tablet fills the role that it was designed for, but it leaves a lot to be desired considering its premium price tag, slow battery charging rate, and poorly executed docking station. The saving graces of this tablet are its long battery life, good quality display, and relatively speedy Atom processor. It's a Surface RT killer, and nothing more.S|A
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