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Offering low-powered Intel Atom tablet/laptop hybrids for $750 or more is a dodgy proposition for budget-looking systems such as the Iconia W510, but all-day battery life is a great selling point.

The Acer Iconia W510-1422 goes all day long and most of the night, with a highly portable design, and a docking keyboard that lets you choose between laptop and tablet.

The Acer Iconia W510 offers very long battery life and a useful keyboard dock, making this Windows 8 tablet-notebook hybrid a solid but somewhat pricey choice.

In the end, eying those others might be a good idea--the W510 is a decent product, but it's not great and there's a lot of competition.

There are apps you aren't going to want to run on the W510's hardware, but the fact remains that this tablet will run your legacy Windows applications, and it will run them without sacrificing size or weight or battery life.

Anyone who’s looking for a daily productivity tool will find the epic waits, mysterious blank screens, and occasional crashes simply unsatisfactory.

... if you’re a Windows user and want a mobile device ready for everyday action and a relatively large amount of battery time, that’s where you’ll find the greatness in the Iconia W5.

It’s all the more heartbreaking, then, that Acer’s Iconia W510 isn’t very good. As a tablet, it feels underpowered, unable to play even some basic games like Jetpack Joyride at consistently smooth framerates. As a laptop, it’s even worse.

Unfortunately, the keyboard won’t be for everyone due to its poor layout, and the touchpad is rather stiff. If you can live with these flaws and don’t mind the absence of a Wacom stylus, this hybrid comes recommended.

If you can accept the second-rate touchpad and heat development during load, do not need much power for your work and value the device's flexibility, you will find a solid companion in Acer's Iconia W510.

Usability is affected by the compromises of the keyboard layout, but the W510 makes up for it with a fine screen and a comfortable weight. It’s not the best productivity tool or the best media tablet, but it’s a solid general-purpose choice.

... for those of you who expect tablets to run the same apps as your computer, the Acer W510 is worth a serious look.

For users who can't decide which is better—a tablet or an ultrabook—Acer's Iconia W510 is a good option that balances most of these features, for the best of both worlds.

This Clover Trail Atom-powered convertible tablet PC is attractive and well-built, with extraordinary battery life when used with its keyboard base. It's good for business users with light computing (and long endurance) needs, but power users will want a better CPU and more RAM.