subject: Laptop Acer Iconia Series Review [print this page] The Acer Iconia 6120 laptop is one of those marquee, "halo" products meant to draw attention to the brand as much as to satisfy everyday computing needs. In many ways it's a pretty ordinary 14-inch laptop. The standout feature, however, is its second 14-inch multitouch screen, which replaces the entire lower keyboard-and-touchpad deck. As high-concept products go, the Iconia is fairly affordable at $1199 (as of May 2, 2011). Still, at that price it isn't a very good deal, and you're better off choosing something a little more down to earth. Acer's dual-touch implementation of a Windows laptop is about as good as you could expect it to be ACER AS09B56 Battery , but it's just not a great idea in the first place.
Touch all five fingers to the lower screen, and you'll bring up a special hub that lets you draw gestures, quickly select from several features, or launch one of Acer's touch-enabled applications. The touch Web browser spans both screens, but won't make you switch from Chrome or Firefox. The SocialJogger app shows your Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube feeds; it works as advertised and feels like a slightly laggy tablet application, but you really have no need to use it when you have a full Windows laptop at your disposal. The same goes for the touch-based music and photo apps. Yes, they all work as described, but they're just so...superfluous. Navigating these programs on a lower-deck touchscreen doesn't save you significant time or effort. Most of them would work just as well on the upper touchscreen, and none of them are huge timesavers compared with the plethora of standard keyboard-and-mouse software out there.
If the Acer Iconia has one main problem, it's that the lower touchscreen comes with a whole lot of baggage. It makes the system thick, for starters. At 1.4 inches thick, the Iconia isn't huge, but it is considerably thicker than laptops with similar specs and no optical drive. It's pretty heavy at 6 pounds, too. I already mentioned the missing card reader and Bluetooth. And driving two large LCDs puts a strain on the ACER AS09B58 Battery , which lasted a paltry 2 hours, 11 minutes in our tests. All so that you can have a mediocre soft keyboard and some touch apps that don't take up space on the upper screen?
Acer would have been much better off equipping the Iconia with a standard physical keyboard and replacing only the touchpad with a fairly high-resolution 4-inch touchscreen. It's good to see Acer trying some aggressive designs, especially ones as aesthetically pleasing as the Iconia's, but as a practical matter it just doesn't make sense to replace the lower deck of a Windows laptop with a touchscreen.
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