Acer Aspire 1825PTZ convertible tablet unboxed for your pleasure (video)
By Tim Stevens 
posted April 21st 2010 9:12AM
posted April 21st 2010 9:12AM
posted April 21st 2010 9:12AM
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netbook size +cluv.
chuck onenote 2010 on and this is the bill gates dream.
(if you havent used onenote, you wont understand)
@Punisher Plum
edit, cluv -> culv,
and i forgot to mention the need for some capacitive, likely sausage based stylus
@Punisher Plum
Odd, but none of the tablets I have used had a pen any thicker than my Parker.
Oh yea, I don't take notes with my finger and I certainly don't paint with it anymore either!
@Punisher Plum
Uh... so no digitizer?
i.e., finger painting only? :|
@Punisher Plum Amen. *fapfapfap* I wouldn't buy one site unseen though unless that Acer badge were replaced by Asus.
Little things like keyboard flex and the like could ruin something that sounds badass on paper like this.
@Punisher Plum Looks pretty interesting for the part and seems to me a very good alternative for other pricey convertible laptops -- Although this one performs almost like the 1820pt. http://bit.ly/1820pt-series-acer-convertible
@Ducman69 Its the Acer Aspire 1410/1810 with a convertible touchscreen. I have an 1810tz and its great, really really great. Very light. Good keyboard. Great trackpad with multitouch. Excellent battery life. Trackpad buttons are quite stiff though. No heat or noise issues. A decent but not great screen wrt side angles and shared viewing, though this may have different issues due to the touch layer.
Nice but unfortunately underpowered and bit too late...
@thisNthat My Lenovo U350 has same internals and does a pretty good job at everyday tasks.
@thisNthat
True needs at least a core 2 duo and at least 1TB hard drive
@thisNthat
Too late for what exactly?
@thisNthat
This is an 11.6" device with a capacitive screen and a dual-core SU4100. It kicks around all the Atom-based netbooks, and on something that big, you're not going to be typing for hours anyway. It is, however, full Windows7 PC with a nice touchscreen for €600 from Amazon.de. I'm having one once Acer actually decide to start shipping the damn thing more broadly.
@thisNthat Not that late... I was actually expecting this kind of stuff. A full notebook with good keyboard and "tablet mode"
That is exactly what I want.... BUT, as intel mentioned, there will be dual core atoms coming out very soon and I will prefer to wait for those.
@OCEAN CLAK
You don't know what a Pentium is do you ? LOLz
@Mr w00t
A Pentium is at least twice as fast as an Atom, dual core or not you guys all need to read up on CPUs.
A modern Pentium is just a C2D with less L2 cache, not a particularly noticeable performance difference clock for clock.
@fourthletter Seems that you are missing the point or then I was not clear enough. :)
I want atom's small energy consumption and fan less "capabilities" since I am fed up of heating my balls with huge processors that I am barely using. If you promise me that with the pentium then I am happy to take that... Meanwhile, you dont need to hit your chest and squeak around that "everyone needs to read about processors"... I studied CS and I also know one thing or two about them.
@thisNthat There is nothing wrong with the SU4100 for this form factor, I wish people would actually check benchmarks before commenting.
This processor is used because it has an excellent TDP for the performance, which allows them to use a smaller battery and heatsink for a lighter and lower profile device without making other sacrifices.
Unless the desire for the dual-core Atom was based on anticipated cost savings, I don't know why anyone would ask for that instead. o_O
@Mr w00t It is a CULV processor for a reason.
@Ducman69 I'm not asking for an Atom but in my opinion it's underpowered for Win7 despite the benchmarks. Just my 0.01$
@thisNthat Besides that it's thick and ugly...
@thisNthat didn't stop your sister from wanting to touch it. oh, you were talking about the tablet.
@Ducman69 I don't see a reason for you to get personal. If you were up in front of me I would break your nose. But since you're probably a fat guy with a female identity on the net, I'll just leave you alone, as the son of your sister.
JUST TURN IT ON... most people really care about how the touchscreen.
What's the point of doing an unbox then.
@kingofwale : Blogeee got its hands on a 1820PTZ prototype (basically the same as this one), and was very impressed with the reactivity of the capacitive touchscreen.
http://www.blogeee.net/2010/04/test-netbook-tablet-11-6-acer-aspire-one-1820ptz/
@thewild Edit : I forgot to mention that there is a video available on the blog. Looks pretty good.
The OS seems to be the bottleneck for a perfect tactile experience.
@thewild The 1820 has a resistive Touchscreen. The 1825 has the capacitive touchscreen. Thats basicly the main difference between those two devices.
@thewild
It has a 1.3GHz processor and you think the OS is the bottleneck?
@Maurizio
And you think the 1.3Ghz CPU slows down the touchscreen ? The blind leading the blind.
Not enough stickers -- everyone knows more stickers = higher quality.
@Ed T
Nah, it makes it easier for you to know what's inside.
Besides you can always peel the stickers off.
@LAY "Peel"? What manner of action be this? We just leave 'em on and bitch at the company. /s
@LAY Right otherwise you'd have no way of knowing.
I always put stickers on my MacBook like "103-key international keyboard!", "color display!" and the like, lest I forget...
>>We hear Michael Bay has signed on to direct.
Considering it comes from Acer, there could actually be explosions.
I bet it will be a pretty capable machine. I bought my wife one of the 1410's (with a ULV Celeron part inside) and that little sucker SMOKES an Atom. Streams 720P flawlessly from Hulu, Netflix, Youtube. Best 400 bucks I have ever spent on a computer.
Oh boy! Almost as many stickers as there are Giz stories about their precious iPhone prototype.
I work in the healthcare IT world and our doctors have used touchscreen tablets since like 1997, so it makes me wonder about the sudden interest in the tablet field. I guess it was just a specialty thing until more recently....at our old office I found 30 brand new Fujitsu teampads still in the box.
Underpowered and overpriced.
Of course I will turn it on in the next videos and do some benchmarks.
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@Johannes K
There is no stylus and digitizer?
In contrary to a certain religion, that's a fail for me... Looking for the ultimate Onenot / inkseine machine... that needs a stylus...
@Nice
Agree.
Even without a digitizer, a pen with some kind of software palm recognition (look at asus T101) would have been much appreciated.
For sure it's not "underpowered": CULVs are absolutely fine for these kind of tablets, you can't even compare them with an atom processor, and with 8 hours of battery life (I do get 10 with a SU7300 and 8-cell 5600mAh battery) it is a great all-day-computing machine.
@Nice Thats right, no stylus!
Damnit, I figured this was going to be my next laptop... no pen = no sale.
@Old fogie late bloomer Then grab a 1820PTZ, it has a resistive touch and also a stylus that comes with it.
Just another hunk of plastic... yay.
But what sort of fool would want to watch a movie on an 11.6" screen, when they can watch it on a 9.7" one?
Oh, and stylus, here's a pic of it with one...
http://www.techchee.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Acer-Aspire-1825PTZ-tablet-netbook-with-stylus.jpg
@Magicland Thats the 1820PTZ, the predecessor of the 1825ptz, acer released only a few of them and moved on with the 1825ptz that has now capacitive touch (no need for a pen anymore).
@Johannes K
Differences between 1820PTZ and 1825PTZ aside, just in general. What makes you think the touchscreen technology has ANY effect on the NEED for a pen?
I'm not talking about underlaying technologies, capacitive + digitizer is win-win, both touch an pen technology are beter then resistive, but I am puzzled how anyone can think it would influence the need for a stylus at all?
@Johannes K
Do you kno if/when the 1820ptz is coming to US?
About time someone released something that can even remotely compete with the hp touchsmart line.
That looks EXACTLY like the laptop I got from Microsoft at their developer conference last October. The only difference is that this one has more RAM, but I think this is basically "The PDC Laptop". I can say that as far as small computer go, I've been pretty impressed. The high resolution on that small monitor makes things like code small, but this is a great backpack / briefcase computer. I had never owned an Acer but I've been pretty happy with the PDC tablet.
Check it out:
http://microsoftpdc.com/tablet