Acer Windows 8 Tablets Pricing Revealed

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Over the past few weeks we have been hearing various rumors about the Windows 8 tablets pricing.Up until now none of the manufacturers (not even Microsoft) had announced their Windows 8 devices pricing,but recently Acer confirmed their Windows 8 pricing details.

As reported earlier by TechJungle,Acer confirmed the prices for their upcoming Windows 8 offerings.The cheapest one i.e the Acer W510 will cost around NZ$ 999 which converts to around USD 712(straight conversion), while the Keyboard dock which would be separately available will burn a couple of  hundred dollars more.The higher end tablet W700 will cost NZ$ 1799 which translates to around USD 1260.

The W510 features a 10.1″ display with 1366×768 resolution ,Intel Atom processor clocked at 1.5Ghz, to go with 64GB eMMC,2 mega pixel rear and 8 megapixel rear facing camera,with 9 hours of battery life,while the big brother w700 boasts Intel Core i5 processor clocked at 1.7Ghz,a pair of 2 and 8 megapixel camera like the w510,a Full  HD 11.6″ display,128GB SSD and upto 8 hours of battery life.Both the tablets include Features like WiFi,Bluetooth4.0,Micro HDMI and a Micro USB port for W 510 while the W 700 sports USB port.

It would be interesting to see after this,how the others will react with their pricing,especially those with Windows RT based devices from Dell,Samsung,Asus and Microsoft.

  • 1stkorean

    I think these kind of prices are going to hurt if not kill Windows 8 Tablets out of the gate.

    • Akiro

      These are the X86 based tablets you know…

      I’m quite sure the ARM based Win8 tabs aren’t even gonna reach 1/3 of this price.

  • Christopher Tranter

    FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL Is this a joke? acer make junk hardware, so we can expect dell/samsung etc to cost more than this? who is going to pay these prices for such a machine? The only way windows 8 is going to work is by pushing decent hardware at a low price, to destroy the ipad childrens toy. At these prices, that isn’t going to happen. The RT version may be cheaper but it’s not looking that good anyway, The pro-surface computers *could* destroy all competition, if priced correctly (which obviously isn’t happening)…