Acer Aspire Switch 10

The Acer Aspire Switch 10 is a super light weight budget laptop that can be used both as a tablet and laptop. You can flip or rotate it through virtually 360 degrees about its snap hinge or detach the screen completely to use the Switch 10 as a tablet. It is powered by an Intel Atom processor and features a 10.1" HD multi touch anti glare screen built with scratch resistant Gorilla glass. It is supplied with Windows 8.1 OS. If you are not a heavy laptop user, this laptop provides the best two-in-one solution. At a starting price of $429.99, it rivals Microsoft's surface pro 3, which is much more expensive!

Attractive features on Aspire Switch 10

• HD multi touch anti glare display screen

The Acer Aspire Switch 10 features a wide XGA HD display LCD screen built with IPS technology. The multi-touch screen and LCD are fitted almost seamlessly together to produce an anti-glare and vivid display suitable for working outdoors where there is too much light. 
IPS (In-plane switching) is a screen technology that remarkably improves response time, color reproduction and provides a wider viewing angle for LCDs. With IPS, Liquid Crystal molecules are oriented and actively switched parallel to the plane of the glass plates in which they are contained. With this technology, the Acer Aspire Switch 10, presents an impeccable display for all conditions even bright sunlight.

• Scratch resistant screen

The Aspire Switch 10 features a screen built with scratch resistant Gorilla glass 3 that is three times as resistant to scratches as ordinary gorilla glass.

• Acer snap hinge

The snap hinge let's you transform your Acer Aspire switch 10 laptop into a tablet. You detach or re-attach the screen to the keyboard easily with this hinge and the display is held in place by a magnetic force.

• Ultra-slim and ultra-light

The Acer Aspire switch 10 is very thin and light. At 1.17kg and 8.9mm thick in tablet mode, it is one of the slimmest two-in-one laptops on market right now.

• Acer Lumiflex display

The Acer Aspire switch 10 features a Lumiflex display for optimized color control well suited for displaying images and watching videos under bright sunny conditions.

Full tech specs of Aspire Switch 10

• Pre-loaded with 32-bit windows 8.1 Operating System
• 1.33GHz/1.83GHz Quad-core Intel processor and Chipset family from Intel corporation.
• Expandable 2GB DDR3L SDRAM
• MicroSD and extended microSD card support
• 500GB Serial ATA HDD
• 10.1" 1280 x 800 WXGA Active matrix color LCD screen.
• In-plane switching(IPS) and LED backlight screen technology 
• Multi touch screen
• Intel HD Graphics controller chipset
• 64GB DDR3LM SDRAM shared Graphics memory
• 802.11a/b/g/n WLAN
• Bluetooth 4.0 + HS
• HDMI port
• micro USB
• Stereo speakers, HD audio
• Built-in microphone
• Built-in Webcam
• 5910mAH 2-cell Lithium Polymer Battery that lasts up to a maximum of 8 hours.
• 18W AC power adapter.
• Weighs approximately 1.29 pounds.

Buying tips

• If you run applications that require a lot of processing power, choose an aspire switch 10, with 1.83GHz processor clock speed.
• It is also advisable to expand SDRAM from 2GB to 4GB.