Acer Iconia Tab W500 / W501 / W500P / W501P

Bright, beautiful colourful screen with excellent touch resolution and excellent sound make this a great little media tablet, and the C-50 processor is a step above an Atom

The price and the battery life are only good for a Windows tablet - not compared to iPad or Android, the keyboard dock is an excellent idea poorly executed

The Tab is a nice little Windows tablet, as Windows tablets go; it can't bend the laws of physics to deliver better battery life, although the C-50 and Radeon do a good job, and Windows has advantages and disadvantages on a tablet and the Tab gets both...

Excellent compatibility ; Great screen ; Versatile performance

Windows 7 isn't for tablets ; Poor screen rotation redraw ; Insubstantial keyboard dock ; It's pricey

The problem for Acer is its choice of operating system - Windows 7 wasn't designed for use on a tablet, and it really shows.

Windows 7 is a great operating system in general

but it doesn't work on tablets, including this one; poor design; essentially an overpriced netbook

A cheap-looking tablet that's further hampered by having the wrong operating system

Good display ; Responsive capacitive touchscreen ; Decent graphics chip performance

Bulky and heavy ; Ropey keyboard peripheral design ; Windows 7 doesn't like touchscreens

The Acer Iconia W500 is a device that does the tablet cause no good. The keyboard dock is clumsily implemented but without it, using Windows 7 becomes a chore. After a few more passes from Acer's design bods it could have been closer to a winner, but...

Two-piece design with separate tablet and optional keyboard dock ; Good viewing angles on capacitive multi-touch touchscreen ; Comfortable keyboard

Underpowered processor ; Windows 7 is not finger-friendly ; So-so Acer Ring UI overlay ; Only 32GB of internal storage

On paper, a tablet with a dockable keyboard seems like the ideal combination for many business users, delivering full-blown notebook functionality and tablet computing in a single package.

Optional keyboard dock for laptop-style working ; Plenty of connections

Windows 7 doesn't provide a great tablet experience ; Dock may not be very robust

The Acer Iconia Tab W500 provides a novel solution to the sacrifices made by tablets in the name of portability. Like the similar, two-part Asus Eee Pad Transformer, it aims to give you the comfort of sitting down in front of a laptop -- or, rather, a...

The Acer Iconia Tab W500 is great for someone who wants the familiarity of Windows, or who wants to do Windows-based work occasionally. It excels at audio and video playback, but you'll need an SD Card to store that media on because it has limited...

Detachable Netbook-like screen

Hard to connect or disconnect keyboard dock; no touchpad

The Acer Iconia Tab W500 works in several potentially good ideas, undone by a half-baked physical design that makes it needlessly frustrating to use.

Bright screen, good for web browsing, full HDMI output

Top heavy design, fiddly keyboard and trackpad, disappointing battery life, over-priced, can't compete with the cheaper Asus Eee Pad Transformer

An average attempt at a hybrid device, the Acer W500 fails to set the world alight and is not an adequate replacement for a netbook.

There’s nothing exactly revolutionary about the W500, but it does more than your average Windows netboook and can do it in tablet form. Sure it’s a little on the chunky side and Windows 7 isn’t as finger friendly as iOS or Android, but with the dock or...