Acer Switch 3 Review (2 in 1 Windows 10 Pro Tablet With Keyboard) By Tablet-News.com

Hi guys disturb liens of commoner. Here we a switch three four. You were living here with a twenty-one device that was launched at the end of April. It obviously runs on Windows 10, and it's basically a combo of a tablet, and its keyboard meant to replace a laptop. It's already got two pretty impressive words: the Red Dot Design Award, and it's got a metal shell, as you can well see, plus the kickstand, and it's supposed to be stored of better suspecting some areas, crumble, alternatives and also a cheaper Surface Pro alternative, so to say another alternative to the Lenovo yoga. Furthermore, it was launched this month in June in the stores, and it measures 10 millimeters.

In thickness, it's made of solid metal, anyways 907 grams, which means it's quite on the heavy side, but for 12 inches. That's too big study. So it builds the winner of the red dot, design award, and it's got big bezels up front which allow you to hold it properly when watching some videos or doing some other thing. Okay, so I'm going to log in okay and enjoy the Windows 10 pro experience. Now we have big bezels here and pretty nice kickstand, which, from what effort, was one of the reasons why this device actually got that red dot design work.

So here we go, you can actually adjust it at the end. All you want so I would say. This angle is proper for video watching and I would say. This angle is ideal for drawing, because this machine also has Windows in support and in tandem with a special pen, you can screw ball on it. Anything you want now speaking of angles and speaking of productivity stuff.

We have a keyboard and keyboard looks like this. It's very slim, as you can see, as a pretty nice texture of very nice fabric here, feels nice to the touch and a very strong magnet with pins in this area and connects to the tablet via the connectors at the bottom, so very strong magnet. Here we go the QWERTY keyboard, that's not backlit, which may be a complaint here, plus a pretty generous touchpad. You can see here now for motive, for it also has 10-point multi-touch, and we can let you do selections and things like that. Let's right-click available as well and typing is done quite easily on this device, as you can see in the combo of kickstand and the keyboard we're replacing the laptop in quite fine, and also you're done.

You can take it like this, and this will serve as a protection for your screen. Now speaking of screen, we are down the design, we're happy with it. We understand why we've got the red dot design work. Let's discuss the display now, okay, so password again, okay, so we're back here, stubbornness calm to unveil the screen were dealing with here, so a 12-point to ensure full HD, IPS LCD and the experience, let's check it out who, using our usual test clip, which is this one nope. This is music.

This one here is our test, video, okay. So the experience is quite crisp and clear and begin the colors, pretty okay, brightness and pretty wide view angles, but this is more for interviewing because, as you see in a minute, the brightness level is not very high here. Now that you saw the experience for yourself, let's delve into the actual details. Okay, so let's see what we're dealing with here for the screen, so, first the pixel setup boarding with RGB stripes pixels, as shown by the microscope, we put onto the screen, and then we actually measure the brightness using the lux meter and achieve the pretty underwhelming value of 236 Lux unit, which is not impressive but actual use. Experience indoors was okay, it beats the Asus Transformer book and the chewy v8 BOTS scores below the Acer Aspire switch process which will actually test it a few months ago, and these settings for the screen are the usual ones in Windows, 10 brightness, light, and if you want to see more, we actually go here.

All slip, settings and display night light a night light setting, scale and layout resolution orientation and multiple displays are also built over a reasonable screen, but not exactly very bright, as the last method has shown not the specs of this device into the among others. Well, the Intel Pentium quad-core CPU in this case and 4200. There are plenty among 11 versions of this device and, as you can see, you can alternate between tablet mode and desktop mode. Speaking of specs, we also have what four gigabytes of RAM available here of the Elbe, ddr3 kind as well as 64, gigabytes of storage and a micro SD card slot, and somehow out of that 64 gigabyte storage. Well, we quickly ran out of it, and we were left with around.

Let's see how much actually for that, how much so right now we're enjoying only 13 gigabytes, so 13 gigabytes, also 64 of the own, installing the bunch of games and also a bunch of benchmarks, not very impressive. There is no lag here: the typical windows and functioning, and also the Sun gaming on this device, including some gaming in Riptide gp2, which is a benchmark title which totally flexes the power muscle of the device. It's a benchmark game. We use it on all devices, and here we go okay, so tilt pretty nice. Looking water reflections and animations.

Of course, you have integrated graphics. What else we have all on Intel, Pentium device? I would say it looks mighty fine, and we also play more complex games like this Brigade and I would say for side. Things are ok getting wise. Now, no lag, ok, gaming, not much to complain in this area, but we also did a bunch of benchmarks and, let's see what happened with those, so benchmarks are here, and we do quite a few of them, and you can check them out here. We can also check them out in also review things.

To remember here are that we do not have much time of comparison for the Acer switch.3 I can only tell you that, for example, in Geek bench 4 we have the following scores. Here we go as you can see here, 15:07 and 4600, which what, if you want to control to the iPad Air 2 they're, quite close, that one has 18 17 and for 333 the first one is below it and the second one is above it, but not by much. The best result is certainly in Consider once again confirming that Microsoft Edge is the browser to have so 281 and s, one of the best results of the best browser out there. So we're doing fine in the management area close to the iPad Air 2, but also close and subpages Villanova yoga book, which we tested last winter and that's not a bad feature. We also did a temperature test and let's see what that came out, so here we go after running the very intensive 3d mark.

We got up to 32 degrees Celsius, which means there is no overheating here, and this is one of the cooler tablets with favorite. After all, having such a large body means you can also integrate pretty good design to dissipate the heat, not on the battery front. This 12-inch machine has a lithium polymer 2 cell battery inside and in our video playback test. We achieved 7 hours and 2 min the playback, which is rather okay. Maybe I watched a bit more, but it beats the Acer Aspire switch 12s, which is sort of related to the device.

If only in series and I would say we are doing reasonably within the 1/3 range of devices, still we are below the mocha and one, and it's yummy me, but now we do not have intensive benchmark tests on Windows 10. As far as I know, there is no type of work PC marks that we have on Android. It's not the same thing as far as I know, but with my regular usage, I have to say that I risked about 5 6, sometimes 7 hours of continuous use. This time, I'm talking about browsing and talking about so Microsoft Office, word, windows, edge games and a movie, so basically 5 6 hours of continuous work should be enough to lose all the juice on your device and the charging. Well, it requires two hours and 45 minutes which is pretty ok and is the equal of the Acer Aspire switch 12s and superior to the Acer Iconic 110 with the Thule recently now we also have some battery saving settings here in which we can tweak power and sleep settings shown here screen our sleep, additional power settings and other Windows 10 typical features, including a power saver mode.

Okay. So we proceed further now, and we're dealing with the acoustics. We have two speakers, the default one here and one here we pretty discreet, cutouts here and here and I- guess it's time to go to that folder again and listen to some tunes. Okay, let's put this down for a bit because it's quite heavy tap on it and maybe play this tune here. Turn it all the way up.

Okay, so conclusion, I would say the volume is satisfying I like the bass I like amplitude, the high notes and the voice. We didn't have so much voice, but believe me, that's quite okay, and if you don't believe me, we actually have a decibel meter test, which somehow does not confirm what I just said, because it's not very impressive, although my own ear tells me we're doing fine, so basically 87 decibels of the front and back with audio sample and when we're listening to some other tunes, for example, at the top back side, the device which is so shown here. Eighty-eight point three degree excusing eighty-eight point: three decibels. Now when we went to YouTube and listen to some prodigy, yes, YouTube, ecology. Eighty-four point: nine vegetables: these are not very inspiring results, but once again in real life it sounds much louder.

It certainly beats the Acer Iconic 110. It is a recently but scores below the Nokia and one and the chewy high twelve. Sadly, no equalizer here not on the camera found this giant whisper ventured has cameras. Yes, two cameras, actually one at the front and one at the back. This is the one on the back and, sadly, they're, not impressive, even by 12-inch tablet standards.

Does the camera and the interface work will be started with the selfie okay, so the interface is pretty typical for Windows 10 machine that HDR we got a timer ISO, somehow to even put a shot off and here honestly why there is exposure and focus not the actual shots. We took our underwhelming, as you can see totally overexposed, not very clear and with a bit of halo around them. So if it's an outside and even in your lighting you're not going to be happy with the results fingers crossed for skyping properly with the front camera. Okay, now it's time for connectivity on the connectivity front, we have the following: everything is set up in this area, so is very easy to interpret so audio jacks or USB type-c fool. You will be 3.0 micro, SD card slot and proprietary charging poor and that's about it connectivity wise. Of course, there is well Wi-Fi, AC, Bluetooth and below.

We have the pins to connect the keyboard useful before, and I have to say that the transfers were quite fast. You can connect a USB Drive on this side and guessing that a mouse and keyboard. Also in the mix and keep in mind, we do not have a 4G version here now. The OS we're dealing with here is a Windows, 10, Pro, believe it or not, and let's actually try and access assist somehow for some reason we're on booking. com.

Ok, so let's go to table news comm this time by the way. This is the virtual keyboard in case you're wondering tablet news as usual, the device and its browser are very fast by the way we have a new theme. Don't know if you noticed it looks mighty fine on Microsoft Edge. Ok, so that's what web browsing is about. This is Windows 10 Pro, as you know it, as you can find it on laptops with difference that we have a touch screen here, and we have a tablet mode, which was famous back in the days of the Windows 8 and other derived versions.

You have the action center. We have the menu area here we have Cortana in the mix and guess what they also throw in one free month of Office 365. So, yes, you can do your work in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. This is word you can take my word for it. I know it's a bad pun, and you can start writing a student report.

All these tablets download is a template and I guess it's time to bring back the keyboards, it's very slim I'm guessing it does not have its own battery. You take the juice from the tablet. Connects us sorry for the loud bank. Then you prop open the kickstand, and you start working on your school project, and here we go. You can add sources to your document.

Sources automatically excited I'm moving around with the touchpad I'm. Also using the page down and page up things are looking mighty. Fine, you can type a settle. You can get the auto color going on. Okay, we just wrote something on the screen.

Don't know if you can see it, but lets we just wrote: hey guys, how's the weather in think that's too white here, because the screen brightness anyways, that's how you do some relativity things on these devices: nope not switching to thermal so India, it's Windows, 10, Windows, 10 Pro, the one you're familiar with, but with an extra keyboard to use an extra kickstand, and you can pass between tablet and laptop mode level, one okay, so I guess this is the end of the review. Unless you want to see the list of pre-installed thingies typical, Windows, 10 stuff, we have 3d paint by the way, if shadows in 3d paint. Lately it's here, 10 3d and actually had quite a bit of families, courtesy of having a touchscreen. You know new. You can use those brushes the roll things around, and then you can even add 3d objects in the mix.

Furthermore, you can get more models, you can crop stuff. Furthermore, you can rotate stuff and work with 3d, graphics, okay, and that's only one of the examples of what you can do, all you device don't expect advanced, Photoshop or advanced anything. It's an intel! Pentium CPU in the end, and it's time what I said before for the word is of the device not on the pro side got a nice design is a red dot, design winner, it's made of metal, it's I, would say reasonably coffee for such a large machine. It's got a pretty good performance. Um very nice keyboard actually fell in love with this pretty okay connectivity and okay productivity, nice acoustics and on the cons side.

Well, the storage is kind of limited, so we lost quite a few gigabytes. Installing minute things and I would say. The brightness should be a bit better in the future. It's a bit pricey the cameras under on the whelming. We don't have HDMI and the battery should be better.

I would recommend this to a journalist or a student one that is not limited by his or her own budget. If your media organization is paying for it go ahead and bite if your parents are paying for it, go ahead and bite otherwise for the same amount of money, you're better off with a more premium Chromebook, that's my honest opinion, and if I were to give it a grade, it would be around 8 out of 10. This is from tablet news, calm, bye-bye.

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