Notebooks & Netbooks

[eepok]

I have been hunting for deals or waiting for sales for the Switch 10 64GB model to go on sale (Target:$340 USD). Then came the announcement of the new Switch 10s coming out this month. I thought that they would be out of my preferred price range and that they would push the older Switch 10s down in price, but according to a variety of reports, they won't cost much more and they have a couple significant changes such as the hardware Windows button and new aspect ratio. While I don't know how the switch to DDR3L RAM from LPDDR3 RAM will affect battery life and how the change from the Z3745 to the Z3735F will affect performance/battery life, I'm still more interested in dodging some of the issues that came with the original Switch 10s. I'm in the market now for a Switch 10 64GB. When are they expected to go on sale?

[philetus]

There are 3 models for sale on Acer site with the Z3735F processor. Is that processor totally new to Switch 10?

[eepok]

From what I can tell, they are. Check out this article here (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2601322/acer-announces-aspire-r13-r14-convertibles-and-larger-switch-... It talks about the new Switch 10 models and refers to the new models as "SW5-012". All of the SW5-012 models on the Acer site have the Z3735F processor. -- One correction, though. There are multiple models described right now on the Acer site. Only ONE (1) is sold through the Acer store, though, and that's the 32GB version of the original Switch 10. But it is on sale for less than $300 right now (quite tempting if I didn't know about the improvements to the new Switch 10s).

[edited - fixed link]