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Acer’s New York media event brought us a bunch of new products today, like the Windows 7 tablet, the 4.8-inch Android smartphone / tablet, the 7-inch and 10-inch Android tablets or the Alive store, but we have one more interesting Acer product to show you today, and this one has a name. The Acer Iconia is a dual-screen tablet or laptop, depending how you look at it and we can’t but wonder how this hybrid device will fight against other tablets and laptops in the near future.

The tablet/laptop comes with two 14-inch touchscreeen displays, HD 1,366 x 768 resolution, high-brightness Acer CineCrystal LED-backlit TFT LCDs, ultra-thin Gorilla Glass, a “highly intuitive all-point multi-touch functionality,” an Intel Core i5 processor, Acer Ring user interface (meant to help you better control the device by offering a Virtual Keyboard, a Gesture Editor, Window manager and Device Control Console), 3G support, HDMI connectivity, Dolby Home Theater V3 support and Windows 7 in the background.

Things like arrival dates and pricing details have not been mentioned yet, but that’s not all we’d like Acer to tell us. This concept laptop has been in the making for a while, but will it really be capable of supporting our daily needs while we’re on the go? The one thing that I’d like to know right now is how will Acer deal with power consumption. We have two touchscreen displays, a powerful processor, and Windows 7 running everything under the hood. In order for the Iconia to be really iconic we’d need a great battery concept, ready to deal with plenty of power consumption. If Acer manages to do that then we might have a Windows 7 tablet/laptop that could fight the iPad a lot better than, say, the HP Slate would. Not to mention it could be a fierce adversary for the rest of the laptops and notebooks out there.

With a 14.1-inch screen and an integrated optical drive, the hefty 6.7-pound Acer TravelMate C310 looks like an average mainstream laptop. But it's a convertible tablet; flip the display around, and you can write and draw directly on the screen. Though it's too big to hold in your hand for an extended period of time, if you want a tablet for meetings and the occasional trip, the TravelMate C310 delivers enough performance and battery life to suit your needs. If you don't mind working on a smaller screen and doing without an optical drive, we ... Expand full review