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The included keyboard dock gives this tablet the flexibility to imitate a laptop, but it also introduces considerable bulk.

The Acer Iconia Tab W500-BZ467 has the best Windows experience we've seen on a tablet, thanks to its docking keyboard. Lose that and the Iconia Tab loses a lot of its appeal.

The Acer Iconia Tab W500 works in several potentially good ideas, undone by half-baked physical design that makes it needlessly frustrating to use.

The Iconia Tab W500 wants to be the best of both worlds; in the end it's one of the nicest Windows tablets we've seen so far (barring the small size of the on-screen keyboard) and that's both praise and complaint.

The problem for Acer is its choice of operating system - Windows 7 wasn't designed for use on a tablet, and it really shows. You only need look at a tablet running Android or an iPad running iOS to see how it should be done - and it's nothing like this.

The Acer Inconia Tab W500 looks good on paper offering both power and flexibility at a reasonable price, but a bulky body and control issues stop it from being as attractive as alternatives - netbooks, ultra-portable laptops and Android tablets.

... as it stands the Iconia Tab W500 offers the worst, rather than the best, of both worlds.