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Just a week after Acer’s announcement of their Windows 8 Iconia W700, the company announced yesterday in the USA the Iconia W510 another Windows 8 Tablet but this time powered by an Intel Clover Trail Atom Z2760 CPU! the Iconia W510 will come in four different flavors (see details below) with a price starting at $499.99 USD and sold without its docking keyboard (That also includes an internal battery). By default the Iconia W510 will come for all models with an Atom Z2760, 2GB of RAM, …

Here it is, folks: our first Windows 8 device. No, not the first we’ve laid hands on, but the first built-for-Win-8 PC that we’ve been able to take home and spend some quality time with. If you don’t remember today’s specimen, you’d be forgiven: the Acer Iconia W510 is one of many, many tablet / laptop hybrids that have debuted over the past few months. Plus, this isn’t even the highest-end Windows 8 PC Acer has to offer: unlike the W700, which has a 1080p screen and Ultrabook guts, the W510 runs off a Clover Trail-based Atom processor, and has a smaller 10.1-inch (1,366 x 768) display.

Accordingly, the price is also lower: the W510 will start at $500 for the tablet only, though you’ll also be able to purchase it with the detachable keyboard dock for $750. (And if the dock really does double the battery life to 18 hours, you might want to.) Though the W510 won’t be available for a few weeks yet — it goes on sale November 9th — we’ve gotten a hold of an early unit. An important note: the model we tested was pre-production, so we’ll hold off on benchmarking for now and update our story with performance scores and a review card once we have the chance to test a final unit. In the meantime, if you’re looking for a deeper dive on the hardware, you’ve come to the right place.

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Acer was one of many companies to preview its Windows 8 devices at Computex this summer, showing off its Iconia W700 tablet along with the W510. As the release date for Microsoft’s much-anticipated OS draws near, Acer is announcing the slate once again, this time with full pricing and availability.

To jog your memory, the Iconia W700 is an 11.6-inch slate with a Core i3 or Core i5 Ivy Bridge chip under the hood. As we’ve come to expect from Iconia devices, the W700 boasts an IPS display, and this particular panel has a 1,920 x 1,080 resolution. There’s a 1-megapixel, 720p front-facing shooter, and a 5-megapixel camera capable of 1080p video capture sits on the back. The tablet comes with a cradle that sports three USB 3.0 ports and lets you dock the device in either landscape or portrait mode. A Bluetooth keyboard, which comes already already paired with the tablet, is included in the box, along with an HDMI-to-VGA dongle.

Acer says the tablet is good for up to eight hours of usage. The W700 will be available in three configuration options, all of which will go on sale October 26th. For $800, you get a Core i3 CPU, 4GB of RAM and an 64GB SSD. Stepping up to $900 gets you a Core i5 CPU and the same RAM and memory options, while the $1,000 model includes a Core i3 processor, 4GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD. Head past the break for the full PR, plus our hands-on video, in case you needed a refresher.

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