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Its heavy frame places it in the desktop replacement category, alongside the Asus K53E-B1 (5.8 lbs) and Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch (Thunderbolt) ($2,199 direct, 4.5 stars) (5.5 lbs). A second screen adds a lot of weight and is the reason why the Iconia weighs 5.8 pounds-at least a pound heavier than other 14-inch laptops like the Asus U41JF-A1 ($857 street, 4.5 stars) (4.7 lbs) and Samsung QX410-J01 ($829.99 street, 4 stars) (5 lbs). The Iconia is covered in aluminum, which would have been a classier touch had its murky, brownish tint not been so dull. For the same reason, inverting the laptop and using the upper screen with the virtual keyboard isn't an option either. In other words, it's not meant to be held like a book, since weight isn't distributed equally between both sides (the bottom half, where all the ports and components reside, is much heavier) and the lack of an accelerometer (to change the screen orientation) seems to point to that. Even though there are two screens, there's a predefined top and bottom half.

The Iconia is a 14-inch laptop and designed to be treated as such.

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There is a smartkey correction system that works pretty decent, but by and large you’ll be needing to get it right yourself. There is no option for resting your fingers on the screen above the keys, so for the most part you’ll be uncomfortably hovering. You can’t feel where your fingers are going, and of course you can’t always see the back keys with your hands in position. I spent a few hours each day trying to type with it and do everyday functions, and though I got better and more accurate, it simply was not comfortable nor did it amount to a speed beyond pecking. Rest your palms (or your ten digits) on the display and up pops a virtual recreation of a standard laptop keyboard and trackpad. That’s where the bottom screen comes in-or at least, where it should. The keyboard at best amounted to uncomfortable "speed pecking"

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It hearkens back to one of the (many) problems facing Toshiba’s Libretto W105: there’s just too much of Windows 7 showing, too much that still requires a mouse to use. The top screen should be easy to comprehend-it’s a touchscreen Windows 7 device, meaning one in every three icons will be larger than usual while the rest of the menus will remain tiny as can be. The virtual keyboard is still very usable, but reading text just won’t happen.

These are all particularly noticeable on the bottom screen, which won’t be in an optimal viewing position unless you’ve got the device propped on an incline. Worse still, the pair suffers from a trifecta of annoyances: heavy glare, pronounced fingerprint smudging, and bad vertical viewing angles.

The two 14-inch, 1366 x 768 touchscreen displays can withstand quite the digit-beating thanks to Gorilla Glass, but at the same time doesn’t always seem to register my clicks.

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Making it even less portable is a 4-cell Lithium Ion that in practice lasted just over two hours per charge. The Touchbook, as Acer calls it, weights 6.2 pounds and measures about 1.3 inches thick when closed, which is all just about on par with the Dell XPS 15 equipped with a 9-cell battery. The Iconia Touchbook is more akin to a proof of concept or a prototype: some great ideas skinned over a platform that can’t handle it (Windows 7) and built into hardware not ready for prime time.