Pros: I picked this bad boy up for $525, apparently because it was being discontinued, it's been sold out since a couple hours after I bought mine. On the off chance that this does get restocked, I'll post my review.

The battery life on it is incredible, I charge it overnight and I have yet to kill the battery. Granted, I don't use it constantly, but it usually gets at least 4-5 hours of use, and sleeps the rest of the time.

The i7 CPU is nice, for what it is. If you're expecting performance comparable to a desktop i7, you need to readjust your expectations. This might have similar performance to an i3-6100t, it's a dual core hyperthreaded CPU at 2.5GHz - but it's also only 15W TDP, for that great battery life. Still, it's more than capable of doing most every-day tasks very quickly, it just means that compile jobs and CPU heavy tasks will take a bit longer than on a desktop i7, or even a higher end laptop i7 like the 6700HQ.

Other reviews online were disappointed with the performance of the Kingston SSD - but apparently that changed at some point. The Lite-On SSD in my unit easily maxes out the performance of the SATA bus it's apparently running on. I don't know if dropping in a PCIE x4 SSD would result in any performance increase, but this is more than fast enough for my needs.

When viewed inside, the screen is beautiful, great contrast, and under Windows 10, the various tablet modes work perfectly.

Cons: The screen does have some backlight bleed around the edges, mostly noticeable when it first boots up, with the Acer logo on a black background. The worst of it though is sunlight visibility, it just doesn't exist. Even in the shade it's hard to make out anything on-screen.

The BIOS/firmware is just STUPID. Trying to dual boot Ubuntu was an exercise in changing settings until something worked. I posted my method that eventually worked on the Ubuntu forums. I still haven't managed to get screen rotation/tablet mode working under ubuntu, but it works great with 17.04 as a laptop.

The keyboard layout is...odd. I didn't have any issue with the throw of the keys, and one of the things I'm doing on this is programming, so I do a lot of typing. My biggest issue is finding the page up/down keys, which I use quite a bit. I also wish there was a setting to save the keyboard backlight setting, turn it on by default, or even turn it on in Windows. Instead I end up tilting the screen down to use the LCD backlight to find the key to turn on the keyboard backlight.

The touchpad is also a bit wonky. Sometimes it will detect a single finger tap as 2 finger, and sometimes vice versa. At times merely brushing it with the sleeve of my jacket is enough to set it off, others I have to press my fingers down to get anything to happen. It's also a bit rough of a surface, I can see it wearing out in a year or two. Mostly, I use the touchscreen instead, which means I look like an idiot when I go to use my non-touchscreen work laptop. The touchscreen does also collect fingerprints very well.

The other issue in the dark is the volume buttons. The volume buttons are on the same side as, fairly close to, and feel almost the same as, the power button. More than a few times I've powered the machine down instead of adjusting the volume. I've now set the power button to just put the laptop to sleep.

The webcam is far inferior to the 5 year old Logitech C270 on my desktop, it's grainy and handles lighting poorly. It's good enough for skype in a pinch, but not something you want to be shooting family photos with.

Overall Review: When I bought this, I was looking for 4 things: 500GB+ SSD, 8GB+ of RAM, touchscreen/convertible, and a CPU/GPU capable of playing some low-end games. For the price, I was willing to give up on the gaming, I haven't tried playing anything yet, but I don't have high hopes. One of my big hopes though was that I would be able to take this out into the field to do PID tuning, etc, on RC quadcopters, but the complete lack of sunlight visibility has killed that hope. Still, I'll use it, it's definitely a lot more capable than the 10 year old XPS M1530 I was using (and will probably still use for PID tuning).

Also, 4.2lbs doesn't sound heavy, and it's really not when you're carrying this around in a laptop bag, but it's a bit too heavy for regular use as a tablet PC. I'm not putting this as a con though, because it's really not that heavy for a 14in convertible, a friend's very similar Thinkpad is 4.1lbs. To be honest, I was looking for something in the 11-12in range, but it's hard to find these kinds of specs in a smaller convertible without paying an arm and a leg, and the Shell Shocker deal was irresistible.