Now for the details.
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Performance and appearance
Inside the box you will find the tablet unit in the upper part. The included clip-on keyboard is one floor below. Otherwise, a compact power supply (19 V, 45 W) together with connection cord (Cloverleaf connector) will be included. There are also at various instructions, but you do not really need. As usual with Acer, everything is packed very carefully.
The first impression is mixed. The tablet unit acts compared with the current Android or iOS tablets with approximately 11 mm thickness almost clunky, and it is relatively heavy. The display bezel and sides are made of plastic, the back of thin aluminum with matt brushed surface. The build quality is impeccable but, the device fits comfortably in your hand. And finally, it is here to a Windows PC - who is adequately served with iOS or Android, is anyway strike elsewhere.
The keyboard part is lighter than the tablet or display part (about 700 to 850 g) and also meticulously crafted, but works through its housing made of thin plastic once not particularly high - it rustles when stroking it. The keyboard itself is but well done - it has a clear and pleasant stop and a reasonable layout that uses the few square well. For fixed Tap the thin plastic casing clatters a little. A problem is not the but. The very stable hinge is the biggest part of the weight above the center. One would have the lower part can probably more easily build, but the mated notebook would already fall in gently reclining display. This allows the upper part to about 30 degrees backwards, without being too shaky. Just on the lap is further unfolding only possible if you let your hands on the keyboard part or the upper part is supported somehow.
The team can be put together easily and disassemble. The connection snaps fed up (magnetic) a, the grip is very good. Connections and disconnection of the keyboard is automatically detected and the operating mode of the device reset accordingly (suppressible). When connecting the keyboard part by the way warns a popup that you nevertheless please to before removing "safely remove" tool from the taskbar use - such there is not there but, as long as no other USB accessories are connected ... A small blemish ,
The below the display prominently posting speakers provide good stereo impression. The sound is clear in the heights, but otherwise very thin. The centers can be personalized with an equalizer maybe pimp anything but basses are due to design virtually absent. The achievable volume is sufficient to directly listen to music on the device, for YouTube videos or sometimes a movie, but not to fill a room. The sound quality of the headphone output is expected to be good.
The connectivity to the switch 11 are limited - at the tablet unit there is a headphone, a micro HDMI output, a USB 3.0 port, and the side of the keyboard part, there is a USB 2.0 port. The latter I use M325 wireless mouse for my Logitech. The power connector (the tablet) is a little shaky for my taste.
A very big advantage for the use on the couch, the fanless design. Thus, the switch 11 is completely soundless and no inhaled dust or lint. In normal operation, the back is noticeably warm, right significantly stronger than the left. The brushed aluminum part of the housing thus serves not only a fancier look, but plays an important role in heat dissipation.
The screen dissolves quite fine on with 1920x1080 pixels. Like virtually all touch display is also this high-gloss. However, the reflections keep in good acceptable limits (approximately like my Galaxy Note 3 smartphone), and even fingerprints will not be a problem. Color reproduction and contrast are good, except for a slight yellow green stitch. The viewing angle is very low - even from very acute Wave the display remains easy to read, only the contrast is slightly less. In completely dark image content you see in some places of the picture frame light irradiation cloudy. In normal operation, but they do not fall on. The brightness is sufficient for use indoors or in shaded outdoor areas. The color cast I have grossly corrected in the controller for Intel graphics (here: brightness red -5, -15 green, blue +15). Now the display is really fun.
Unfortunately Acer provides the appropriate pin ("Active Stylus NP.STY1A.002", about 40 euros) not to, which allows you to use the switch 11 as a slate. The pen requires a AAAA battery and has the size of a regular pen. Besides the possibility of handwriting input (which almost no delay works) so can the tablet unit alone served much better. The precision of the input is good - the cursor deviation is out on the outer 3 millimeters of the display only fractions of a millimeter. I have certainly not regret having bought later the stylus.
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Software
Deserves praise the sensible, lean Vorbetankung of Switch 11 with software, ie the Bloatware is kept within relatively narrow limits (here: 60 GB SSD). Thrown down, I have the pre-installed trial versions of McAfee (30 days) and MS Office and Apps from Ebay and Spotify. Otherwise, there were several links to the network, such as Amazon, Booking.com to DropBox or the Acer Store which, although having advertising character, but not the system or charge vollmüllen. In addition, you can still find a number "Acer" applications, some of which are for the use and configuration of the device. Removes I: Acer portal abDocs, abmedia, abFiles.
Upon delivery, less than 8 GB of 47 GB system partition are in use, incl. Swap and hibernation files. This is made possible by the 8.1 introduced with Windows technology WIMBoot. Here, a (compressed) system image is used, which is housed on the 9 GB recovery partition. This saves space and facilitates a total reset to the factory settings. Once you use Windows for a while and has a few (minor) programs installed, the free space shrinks towards 30 GB.
"Acer Recovery management" calls, after a while automatically to make a backup the Recovery Partition. This is (at least a USB stick. 16 GB) to external media transfer, can also be booted from the emergency. Although the recovery software and the manual claim otherwise, and allowed the recovery partition can not be deleted when you switch 11, because by WIMBoot it contains significant parts of the system.
However, Acer also supports the implementation of a slim Windows installation, by (1.6 GB free min.) Can be copied via the Acer Recovery Manager installation files for the device-specific applications and drivers to an external medium such as a USB flash drive. The installation files are placed there - separately for applications and drivers - in clearly named subdirectories. The content of these directories are also indications which applications you better reserves: Acer Care Center, Launch Manager, Power Management, Quick Access, Recovery Management, ScreenGrasp, touch Tools. Drivers are available for Intel AHCI, iAMT MEI, DPTF, Serial I / O, VGA UMA, NB_Chipset_M Lynx Point, LITE-ON Wireless + BT 3rd 2x2 AGN WiFi + BT M.2 QCA NFA222, Realtek ALC283 Audio Codec_M and card reader chip RTS 5170th
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Hardware and Performance
The Core i3 4012Y a modern low-power CPU is the second latest generation of Intel ("Haswell") is installed. Meanwhile, however, the first devices come with CPUs of the successor generation ("Broadwell") on the market as the core M-5Y10. These new CPUs are indeed with 4.5 compared to 11.5 Watt an again significantly lower TDP (upper limit of the energy demand). However, the technological leap is not quite as big as it looks at first - the new CPUs must also be throttled considerably for very low-power application.
The switch 11 with Core i3 4012Y creates a SuperPi run (1 million sites), at least in 25 seconds. This makes it about half as fast as a current "full-blown" Ultrabook with Core i5 and two to three times faster than a netbook with Atom CPU. That's enough loose for all office work and also for more complex tasks such as image processing. Only for very compute-intensive work should have a stronger device.
The integrated graphics can be supported hardware play back all popular video formats, in addition to H.264 and VC-1 and MPEG2 (in HD). This reduces CPU load - even if it would be sufficient in terms of performance quite to play HD video in software.
After several minutes, CPU full load (generated with Prime95), reaching the CPU cores 71 ° C (here: 22 ° C ambient temperature), and the rear of the Switch 11 feels pretty hot. The CPU throttling only slightly by the clock is reduced in stages to 1400 MHz.
At full screen brightness are on a single charge for about four hours of HD video playback via Wi-Fi or work at a moderate CPU load it. With low CPU load and 70% reduced brightness the switch holds 11 six to seven hours, under CPU full load at least about two hours. Charging works in two and a half to three hours.
The device transmits via wireless from my FritzBox 7490 about 25 MB per second - that's a good value.
When SSD's 60GB version a L8T-64L9G of Lite-On installed (form factor M.2). It is due to their small size, especially when writing not Allerschnellste (manufacturer: 512/160 MB / s or 85K / 40K IOPS read / write) - that is twice as big sister model writes twice as fast. In everyday use, however it is unlikely to notice a difference. The eMMC storage of "small" Switch 11 with Atom CPU might in any case be much slower.
The firmly soldered memory runs at 800MHz in dual channel mode.
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Conclusion
The switch 11 (here with Core i3) is a neatly constructed device. Bulkier and heavier, therefore, it comes as the tablets of Android or iOS competition, but is technically just a (full-fledged) Windows PC. For typical private tablet usage (Internet / media playback) alone, the device is oversized.
Very useful can be this hybrid team, if, for example during the day go a powerful Tablet / Slate needs and the evening would like to continue working at your desk on a laptop. The power of Switch 11 provides for a good compromise.
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