Is The Acer Switch 10 or Switch 11 Any Good?

jeeg on 26/09/2015 - 16:10

I am waiting to see what is the latest SP4 release on 6th Oct and have been wanting to buy a S3 or SP3 but will put on hold for the meantime…

Now I happen to see this acer switch 10 on display at DSE (didn't research enough to know Acer has such a tablet) and seem a pretty solid tablet…the store people don't know if it support a pen stylus but it seems it does support a wacom one…

Does anyone here owns one and can give some comments if this is a good windows tablet?

Wanted to use for note taking, word and excel and web browsing…no gaming, no photoshoping, mainly reading and marking up PDF papers and stuff.

I think the price is about $350 if I am not wrong…

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  • donnot on 26/09/2015 - 17:43

    I think the Switch 10 "FHD" version is the only one to have the Wacom stylus support unfortunately. Otherwise seems like a solid tablet-nice keyboard and the 8060mAh battery will give it a fair bit of endurance.

    • scrimshaw on 26/09/2015 - 17:56

      This is the official Acer pen product.
      http://www.amazon.com/Acer-Aspire-Active-Stylus-NPSTY1A002/d…

      The reviews are… mixed. Comments seem to suggest the stylus eats batteries for breakfast, which is not very good design.

      If I had about $800~900 to spend though I'd stick with the Surface Pro 3. Mature product and with the best overall (quality wise) accessories.

  • scrimshaw on 26/09/2015 - 17:52

    I'm waiting for the next gen Cherry Trail to replace Bay Trail. Come christmas Intel should ramp up production of the Atom X series chipsets and the older ones should go on sale.

    • iridiumstem on 26/09/2015 - 17:58

      Don't think Cherry Trail products would be getting the same amount of subsidies as Bay Trail products did.
      Intel lost a hefty amount of money from giving out so much subsidies.
      On similar note, I thought Core M tablets is getting reasonable in terms of price, to an extent where I'd choose to pay slightly more for them over Cherry Trail tablets.

      • scrimshaw on 26/09/2015 - 18:05

        I'm expecting that chinese OEM makers, e.g Teclast, would be making some pretty cheap Atom tablets based on the new SOC.

        You can pre-order a pretty high end Windows 10 tab with 4gb of RAM for $241 USD or $350 AUD

        Which is a tempting offer. More tempting of course, if the AUD were stronger though :(

        The processing power of Atom SOC's are weak I know, but it's the amount of RAM that sells it for me. Previously with the Bay Trail chips (e.g Z3735F) the SOc's only address a max of 2GB of RAM which is hardly enough to run a proper OS. Cherry Trail can now use a full 4GB, which means we can now see cheap tablets that can actually multi-task. That's the sort of product I was after.

        • iridiumstem on 26/09/2015 - 23:15

          The sales point of Core M tablets are the SSDs (Cherry Trail tablets still use eMMC which are slower) and RAM.
          They are definitely more expensive (i.e. Cube i7 Stylus is around $500 AUD). That said, I frankly think the SSD and slightly better performance warrants that kind of price difference (I am not sure about what other models are available which might be better valued than that one).

  • jeeg on 26/09/2015 - 18:00

    ok. thanks guys…seem like I am looking at an earlier Switch. no deal then. cheers for the info!

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