That’s where the bottom screen comes in-or at least, where it should. The keyboard at best amounted to uncomfortable "speed pecking" 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. 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.
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