That said, if Acer wants to send me one to try out, I’m not exactly opposed to giving it a shot. Yeah, it’s much more of a notebook than it is a tablet… which kind of makes you wonder: who would actually want this thing? I’d rather have a (smaller) tablet and a regular notebook than to have this Frankenstein’d creation.
#Acer iconia 6120 windows 7
The pre-orders are starting now, but you won’t actually have one arrive at your doorstep until some time in April.Īs a quick refresher, you get Gorilla Glass, Windows 7 Premium 64-bit, Acer Ring Control, Intel Core i5 processor, 4GB RAM, 640GB hard drive, USB 3.0, HDMI out, 1.3MP webcam, WiFi, and gigabit Ethernet. That said, it’s really the only one that has two 14-inch touchscreen displays. With pricing starting at $1,199.99, this is anything but the cheapest tablet on the block. Pushing this trend along is the dual screen-wielding Acer Iconia, which is now being put up for pre-order. I haven’t even scratched the surface of the handwriting recognition, custom gestures, digital scrapbooking, or tried to do any serious work on it yet.Īcer Iconia: Product Page | Press ReleaseĪcer Outs New Tablets, 4.I’m not at all convinced that I would want a notebook computer that doesn’t have a physical keyboard, but I almost said the same thing about touchscreen-only smartphones not that long ago.
#Acer iconia 6120 software
I’m still having a little trouble wrapping my head around the whole concept of a six pound laptop with two 14-inch touchscreens, but I need to dig into the custom touch interface and software a whole lot more. Two screens are better than one, right? That’s the rule. The custom software doesn’t work in landscape mode, so every time you try to rotate the screens they rotate back automatically to accommodate the software. And you can’t rotate them into landscape mode to use the Iconia like a book. The screens don’t get very bright, they’re both pretty reflective, and they’re both fingerprint magnets. I’m using it to navigate Windows a lot even though the main screen is a touchscreen as well.
As for the trackpad, I find myself wishing it was bigger. I can’t imagine doing a whole lot of serious typing on it-I’ll test that theory out over the next week, though. I thought the keyboard would be the biggest strike against this laptop but it’s actually not too bad. The touch keyboard and trackpad are okay. Every program window can be moved from one screen to the other, though. Unfortunately, the rest of Windows 7 isn’t exactly ideal for navigating with the touchscreen and regular applications can’t be spread across both screens. You press your four fingers and thumb down on the bottom screen to bring it up and you’re presented with a custom dual-screen web browser (Internet Explorer), music, video, photo and scrapbooking apps. The four-cell battery doesn’t last that long since it has to power two screens, too, so the thickness and weight of the laptop aren’t much of an issue if you’re going to leave the computer in one place all the time.Īcer’s custom “Ring” interface works pretty well. It’s shaping up to be a computer that you leave plugged in on a desk. The more I play with this thing, the less and less I’m inclined to take it from room to room or even move it at all. Everything’s touchable but the computer is too big to actually be used like a tablet, which brings us to…Īt six pounds and well over an inch thick, there’s a definite mental disconnect between what looks and feels like a big laptop yet is supposed to be used similarly to a tablet.
That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but using the Iconia isn’t exactly what I’d call intuitive at first. It’s one of the weirdest computing devices I’ve used in recent memory. I’ll be putting the laptop through its paces shortly, but here are some initial impressions so far. The UPS man dropped the Iconia off at my place this morning and after an awkward exchange wherein he joked that he didn’t think it’d be safe to leave the laptop in my foyer even though I had to sign for it ( Then why would you leave it there, Elias?! Why?!), it’s now sitting on my desk. Winter set in, months passed, and here we are in late March with the Acer Iconia 6120 priced at $1200 and shipping to retailers next month. Follow announced the Iconia laptop back in November.
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