It's a laptop! It's a tablet! It's…the Acer Aspire Switch 10 E. Yes, the most portable of the laptops we looked at in the $500 tier is also the weirdest, being that it's one of those "tablet hooked to a keyboard" hybrid deals. Or sometimes it's a "tablet not hooked to a keyboard," depending on what you're doing with it.
Is it powerful? No. Is it going to be practical for everyone? Absolutely not. But it's actually one of my favorite machines in this round-up, even if it will only attract a very specific niche.
The design
The first thing that will surprise you about the Acer Aspire Switch 10 E is that it's heavy.
Now, weight-wise the Switch 10 E isn't very different from the competition. It's 2.5 pounds, which is almost identical to the Lenovo S21e's netbook-esque dimensions. And that makes sense, when you look at the Switch 10 E in its standard clamshell configuration—it looks like a netbook, complete with the requisite grey-ish/lavender "brushed metal" plastic casing.
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