Acer Iconia 6120

The Acer Iconia 6120 isn't the first dual-screen Windows 7 tablet on the block. The Toshiba Libretto W105 had two 7-inch displays and was about the size and weight of a paperback, but its short battery life and lackluster software doomed that device to collectible status. The Acer Iconia 6120 is different. It's more like
a coffee table book, a book

[youtube]2u5or2jJn08[/youtube]that features two large 14-inch displays and innovative touch-enabled software, plus a Core i5 processor. But does this $1,199 tablet-book represent the future of laptops, or is it just a pricey experiment destined to appeal only to early adopters?
The Acer Iconia 6120 has a fairly sophisticated look. The lid and bottom are both a champagne-colored metal. The Acer Iconia 6120 bottom, one solid panel, has two rows of small square cutouts for ventilation and speakers, and can be removed easily with two sliding latches. There are only two physical buttons on the Acer Iconia 6120: The right hinge has a power button, and the left hinge activates the virtual keyboard. The Acer Iconia 6120's two touchscreens are each 14 inches, surrounded by a glossy black bezel.
While the Acer Iconia 6120's dimensions--13.5 x 9.7 x 1.2 inches--are typical for a 14-inch system, the Acer Iconia 6120 notebook is on the heavy side: 6 pounds. We definitely noticed it carrying it home in a messenger bag. That's the price you pay for two displays.

Acer Iconia 6120

For Acer Iconia 6120 virtual keyboard, the Acer Iconia 6120's was fairly easy to type on, though not perfect. Aside from using the physical button on the left hinge to turn on the keyboard, we could also activate it by pressing our palms down simultaneously on the lower display; a neat shortcut.

The Acer Iconia 6120 keyboard extends almost the entire width of the screen, and the Acer Iconia 6120 presents the keys in a chiclet-style layout. On the upper right is a set of shortcuts that can be switched between media controls and editing tools (i.e., save, cut, paste, and print). When you press a key, the Acer Iconia 6120 makes a click, not unlike a typewriter. You can adjust the volume or turn off the sound completely in the settings, as well as set skins and even calibrate the key pitch to best suit your typing. The Acer Iconia 6120 keyboard also comes with a predictive text option (XT9), but we found that it was easier to type without this feature activatedWhile we weren't able to type as fast on the Iconia 6120 as with a real keyboard, we did manage a fairly quick rate after about half an hour of practice, so much so that a fair amount of this review was written using the virtual keyboard. We had to be much more careful with what we did with our non-typing fingers, though. Any errant grazing of the screen, and we'd end up with a wrong letter. Overall, we made many more mistakes compared to a traditional keyboard, but it worked.

Acer Iconia 6120

An Acer Iconia 6120 in the upper left also lets you switch to a notepad, where you can add text by writing with your finger. We found this method to be much less accurate. When we scrawled "The Quick Brown Fox," for example, it ended up as "The quick brunet."
The Acer Iconia 6120 virtual touchpad was a smallish 2.5 x 2.1 inches, but we were able to use it as easily as a real touchpad. Acer Iconia 6120 are two virtual mouse buttons below, but considering the whole thing is a touchscreen, why not just make it a virtual clickpad, à la an Apple MacBook?The dual 14-inch (1366 x 768) displays on the Acer Iconia 6120 are made out of the more durable Gorilla Glass. The fingerprint-resistant coating helped somewhat, but you'll want to keep a cloth handy. Both screens have a glossy finish, but that only proved to be an issue with the upper display, as its vertical orientation reflected more lights. Colors were somewhat muted; while watching the trailer for Captain America, the red, white, and blue of the uniform didn't really pop. Horizontal viewing angles were good enough so that three people would be able to comfortably see the screen, but vertical viewing angles were quite narrow. Normally, this wouldn't be a problem, but when you consider that the display can tilt back 180 degrees to lie flat on a table, it becomes an issue.