Tablets are taking over, and they all come in many form, size and even OS! Acer made a bold move with the Iconia series by releasing 2 of somewhat equally the same tablet except with one huge difference; The OS!
Acer Iconia A500 is android based (Honeycomb) while Acer Iconia W500 is Windows 7 based. Both are very reliable tablets in their own ways, but of course there are differences that would probably gives you the "purchasing" option. Obviously the A500 is more focused for entertainment purposes while the W500 is focused on portable work.
The looks:
One notable look of the W500 is the keyboard that doubles as a case while the A500 is slightly smaller. Although the size difference, both have the same screen resolution size. The W500 is lighter (when not docked with the keyboard) but it is thicker than the A500. The A500 has the mini HDMI plug, slot for MicroSD, mini USB and a normal USB plug. The W500 has a normal HDMI plug, an SD card slot and air vents. Both tablet has dual camera, however the A500 has FLASH built in on the back.
The W500 wins in the keyboard dock since the keyboard dock (although awkwardly designed) it has 2 USB plugs and an ethernet plug. The A500 on the otherhand hs the USB plug for USB storage file access or use keyboards.
What Fits you?
Both can satisfy you need in any ways. Since the W500 is windows based, you should not have any problem is accessing various kinds of files because there will always be a way to access them. However, the A500 is more to the entertainment purposes; this means file access is a bit hard and you may feel a little lock down when in comes to "productive" work.
The A500 houses Honeycomb (or Android 3.0) which is the OS built for tablets. It runs smooth and hardly crashed. Since this is an android device, you have to know what apps you do want to run and find it so that you can be productive. Accessing files will be a bit hard since there is no "file browser" (there is an app for that though) and editting the files in your android will be as hard/easy as the apps you found.
The W500 windows is amazingly fast. Note that this is a netbook, so it should only be limited to office work and web browsing. The keyboard makes it easy to type and windows made it easy for you to download and immediately access that file. You can pop the tablet off the keyboard and make it portable just incase you need it "on- the-go"
My Opinion:
Ive actually owned the A500 for a month before purchasing the W500. I was satisfied on how the A500 managed to help me be more productive for the "on-the-go" kind of work. Since I am using the tablet for college, there is more times for me to move around from one place to another. Having something that is "ready" helps me tremendously in doing my homework.
Depends on the App you downloaded from the market, the A500 can really do some serious stuff aside from entrtainment. Since my basis is the cloud, i can access my files litreally anywhere as long as i am connected to the internet.
Granted you can plug a keyboard and immedietly put to the A500 to work, it doesnt feel as satifying as the W500. The A500 is treated as a mobile device, meaning websites will sometimes open the mobile version of it, and apps are sometimes a short run version of the real thing. The W500 can access any kinds of website and download files more easily. Becasue of the normal browser capibilities, i have no problems acessing web pages with heavy Java or Flash. the A500 would NOT let me access lectures while the W500 does.
However, the A500 does give me a quick relief for entertainment purposes as music are easy access, many games and various apps that would entertain you very quickly. the W500 on the otherhand does not have a high end processor, therefor the games that we can play with it are not intensive, and accessing music and movies would be a little bit of a pain.
Again both have their ups and downs, in a way, the A500 is focused on entertainment, while W500 is focued on being prouctive.
A more focused review of each device will be uploaded hopefully in a short time. until then,
Cheers!
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