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Acer Iconia W510 Win 8 Tablet gets 7/10 and 16hrs in Full Test
At 499 Euro, including docking station and up to 18hrs battery life, the Acer Iconia W510 CloverTrail tablet (32GB) is somewhat of a bargain in Europe. Price and positioning is different in the USA but...
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HP Envy X2 CloverTrail Tablet Shipping Late December
According to a couple of online source the HP Envy x2 should start shipping soon. An offer starting in Japan today promises delivery starting from the 27th December (some reports say 21st) and in...
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Acer W510 and CloverTrail Overview Video and First Impressions. Always-On is...
Written on the Acer W510. Intel CloverTrail is a truly ground-breaking PC platform and the Acer W510 appears, in my 48hrs with it, to offer great ways to enjoy the new features of the platform along...
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Acer Iconia W510 Review – Windows 8 Tablet and Docking Keyboard
The Acer Iconia Tab has been here for over a month now. Bought as a Clovertrail test device it has turned into a surprisingly usable and flexible ultra-mobile PC. The Acer W510 might be using the same...
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Stream Audio with 10X Battery Life using Connected Standby
Always-on is the a feature you’ll find with Connected Standby-capable Windows 8 PCs. Some people think they don’t need it. Let me explain why you need it. Connected Standby (or Always On, Always...
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Connected Standby Problem – How To Check It’s Working via the Hidden Win 8...
As I wrote about driver update V2.04 for the Acer W510 I noticed a few user reports of poor connected standby battery life. The following day I heard about V2.08. I updated again but I was seeing...
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Acer Iconia W5 with Windows 8.1 Preview. How-To and Features.
Windows 8.1 Preview was announced and released at Microsoft’s BUILD event this week and I’ve been testing it on an Acer Iconia W5 Clovertrail based tablet similar to the W3, 8-inch devices that were...
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Acer W510 is your Holiday All-In-One. Test.
Trade shows, conferences and holidays are always a good challenge for ultra-mobile devices and on my family holiday this year I decided to take just three key bits of computing kit. The Nokia 808, a...
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Windows 8.1 Video and Imaging Features
Some of you are going to receive a Windows 8.1 update tomorrow. If you’ve got a laptop without a touchscreen you might be in the ‘so what’ camp but if you’ve got a touch tablet you’ll have happy...
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Windows 10 – Good or Bad for Touch and Mobility?
Is it too early to be worrying about Windows 10 and how the changes will affect touch and mobile users? I don’t think so. The test and feedback program starts today (October 1st, see...
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Sony Vaio Duo 13 – Too Much Good Stuff To Fit In This Title
The first reviews of the Sony Vaio Duo 13 are in, the first product pages are up and availability of this not-quite-an-Ultrabook is said to be 9th June. Battery life tests look fantastic and it looks...
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Sony Vaio Duo 13 Connected Standby Demo
The Ultrabook versions of Haswell, the 4th Gen Core from Intel, bring something special. Connected Standby is the mark of an Ultrabook that’s been built to very tight power efficiency standards,...
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Sony Vaio Duo 13 Overview
Unfortunately the Sony Vaio Duo 13 has to go back today and we didn’t have time to get a full review together but we’ve had a reasonable amount of time testing and are now able to give you a...
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Windows 8 Developers, This is Your Ultrabook. Introducing Harris Beach.
Harris Beach Developer Ultrabook unboxing and first impressions Harris Beach is the name of the latest developer edition of the Intel Ultrabook. You can’t buy this in the shops because it has been...
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Enable Bitlocker on an Ultrabook (Without Windows 8.1 Pro)
I’ve been using a Bitlocker encrypted drive for a month now and it’s been totally transparent in terms of speed. I’m surprised. I’m also surprised that it was available on my Windows 8.1 (not Pro) OS....
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Modern Standby Sleep in Microsoft Windows 10. Overview, tests, problems.
The always-on feature called Connected Standby in Windows 8 has been updated for Windows 10. Modern Standby, as it is now known, has support for HDD-based PCs and allows you to disable WiFi during...
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