Dell Windows 8 tablet, hybrid details leak Dell's tablet plans for 2012 have slipped out, revealing a chunky Windows 8 slate and a tablet-laptop hybrid also set to run with Microsoft's tile-centric OS. A leaked company product slide shows the upcoming Dell Latitude 10 to be a dual-core tablet with a 10.1in, 1366 x 768 pixel display, Neowin reports. Dell Latitude 10 …
So LG can make a 5in phone screen that can do true HD, yet Dell can only manage 1366x768 on a 10in screen?
Anything over 8in should be cabable of true HD these days. It should be top priority for all in the industry to be getting all screens 8in and over up to a decent resolution at an acceptable price.
Ive got 60 of the Dell Latitude ST Slates. Running Windows 7. They are horrible with win7, wireless drops in and out, they are really slow. The stylus is clunky. Hopefully windows 8 will be better on them (the Consumer Preview keeps crashing with the win7 drivers) but this new offering doesnt seem to offer much more in terms of hardware spec.
Why bother with an atom processor? If one wants to have a low power tablet, get an ARM... If you want to run x86/64 then get a i5/i7 or a AMD APU. 2GB RAM, including graphics?? What is wrong with 4GB? Better resolution is also needed. Could also have larger SSD.
The duo format is not the way to go, the tablet has to be removable, ASUS transformer style.
Dell does not seem to have learned anything from the failures that Latitude ST and Inspiron Duo are.....
Windows Slab?
Windows Skillet?
Really I'd love MS to come up with a good tablet based around Windows but jeez they are making it so painful.
Especially when the competition are making Android tablets for £150 or less that will cater for much of what a tablet is used for such as browsing and email with a little Angry Birds and video on the side.
How complex and expensive does such a device have to be? Not very, as each month goes by.
By Xmas MS will be up against 10" £99 IPS dual core tablets.
The competition isn't making tablets for £150. They are making them for around £500 but are failing to sell any real volume, so the are selling at a considerable loss in a bid for market share, which unlike in the 80's and 90's doesn't count for shit if it's coming at a financial loss.
I assume it (the pad) comes with a fan just in case the cores actually have to do some work? 710g is just about acceptable.
The "meccano" one is too heavy for an Air clone: 1.1 kg max. And, as others have said, Asus' approach to mixing an matching tablets and notebooks seems better: the keyboard not only comes with keys, duh, but an extra battery pack.
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