Acer Switch Alpha 12 (SA5-271)

Acer has been releasing Aspire Switch devices for quite some time now and we've seen a steady increase in overall usability, design, quality etc. But since their last announcement at next@acer conference in New York, the Aspire Switch lineup has matured enough to a point when the latest Switch Alpha 12 can actually replace your notebook. It sure is a 12-inch hybrid device but the notebook-class CPU inside puts it in a class of its own.How Acer managed to pull this off? Well, the company's engineer team came up with a clever way to keep the CPU cool during load without the need of a fan. So the cooling design is able to support Intel's ULV (ultra-low voltage) Core i family with the so-called "LiquidLoop" technology, which we will discuss later in our review. The unit we are currentl[...]