ACER Iconia w700 i5: UK suppliers show out of stock/discontinued?

MarkW-UK

I have been looking at the W700 i5 128Gb since it was first announced. I have noted the teething issues through this forum and have been watching the price steadily fall despite stock availability being low.

 

However a number of UK suppliers dabs, BT and others are out of stock and are stating they cannot get any more.

 

Is there a revised/tweaked model due to be launched? Seems strange that so many suppliers have no stock and yet those that do are reducing their prices despite apparently high demand?

 

Also there appear to be at least three variants of the i5 128Gb W700, but it is really difficult to find accurate information what the different variants include. I know some are Win8 Pro, some appear to have a case with built in keyboard...a clear definitive comparison table would be great.

 

 

MarkW-UK

Anyone?

EinoAnttila

At least in Finland they pulled the original launch date of the i5 W700 128GB from early January to February 11 (next Monday, just couple days more!) because they're apparently bringing the new model with the keyboard sleeve on stores instead of the model with the separate bluetooth keyboard. 

 

This is in Finland, but you can propably still understand most of it and see what I mean: http://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/product/19128/dkbbr/Acer-ICONIA-W700-11-6-Full-HD-Intel-Core-i5-3317U-4-GB-128

 

Apparently there's a 1.8Ghz model that's called 3337U and then a 1.7Ghz model that's 3317U. I really don't know why though, maybe someone knows something about this? Is the model with the keyboard sleeve always 3337U with some fixed issued like wifi and bluetooth? Or is there mixups of all of these. I've heard they're selling the cradle at some countries/cities/stores with the keyboard dock and in some they are not. Why all this confusion?

 

And yes, one model comes with Windows 8 Pro and will cost 100 euros more, at least here in Finland.