Comments on: Dell working on business friendly Windows 8 tablet

By: Dansen22

Dansen22 — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 03:20:00 +0000

I will not buy any DELL products, this company is very poor in comes to after sales services of their products, I mean seriously very bad. Not good to do business on this company. I owned Dell Streak 5 & Dell Laptop. Never again!

By: Tessa

Tessa — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:36:00 +0000

Actually, a lot of people just want a tablet so that they can sit on the couch and surf the web, read a book, watch a movie, or play a game. Plus a few things like check their calendar, respond to an email, take notes in a meeting. I’m sure there are some people who think it’s really important for QuickBooks, Visual Studio, Photoshop, or their enterprise apps to be fully touch enabled, but my guess is that they’re more the exception than the rule.

So out of the gate, you sell to people who are fine with having a solid lightweight laptop that also functions effectively as a tablet, but that doesn’t perfectly integrate the two scenarios. Over time, the Metro app library builds up — because people are buying the tablets — and hopefully more complete touch app support happens. At that point, maybe the ARM tablets become more viable too, because there will be enough Metro apps to make them worthwhile.

The initial market for Win 8 x86 tablets is people who know they need a computer and would also like a tablet, but don’t want to have to deal with two devices. You don’t have to have perfect tablet support for all apps to win that market. You don’t even have to be especially cheap necessarily, because you’re weighing against the cost of buying both a laptop *and* a tablet, and having to carry around both of them.

By: Winski

Winski — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:19:00 +0000

From an insider that just LEFT DELL LAST WEEK after Workng there for over a decade and deeply involved with Microshaft, has said this effort IS A BUST !!!

And after the Apple announcement yesterday…. This ‘tablet’ will NEVER SHIP..

By: Motmaitre

Motmaitre — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:01:00 +0000

How does that address the point that a Windows 8 tablet is the same for all intent and purposes as a Windows 7 tablet?

People who want Windows on a tablet want it so they can have a touch interface for their Windows applications. Windows 8 does not provide this. For Windows applications, you have to use the desktop UI which is exactly the same as Windows 7. So there is no ‘tablety goodness’.

By: HildyJ

HildyJ — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:18:00 +0000

It will be interesting to see what they come up with. Assuming they’re going with a 10″ screen, I’ll probably look elsewhere. My HP Slate (Win7 – there are still driver issues with Win8 preview) has a 9″ screen and I’d like it to be smaller rather than larger.

As far as a keyboard, I’m using a Lenovo wired keyboard with a trackstick. It’s light weight and big enough for typing plus I don’t need space for a mouse. Still, having that integrated in a dock, especially if it came with a spare battery for mobile use, would be nice.

A couple of comments don’t seem to understand Windows tablets. I’m assuming the Dell (and most others) will be dual digitizers which react to touch or to a special stylus (n-Trig or Wacom). I find that a stylus is, if anything, more accurate than a mouse and I can access any Office or other software menu/function using it.

By: Will

Will — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:07:00 +0000

windows 8

By: Calvin Kline

Calvin Kline — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:49:00 +0000

Tablet with Phone and Laptop functionality and docking, hmmmmm… I hear by claim the terms Tabtop, Laptab, Phonetab, Fonetab, Tabphone, Laphone, Tabfone, LapFone and any phonetic variation of said terms.

By: Mc Robins

Mc Robins — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:42:00 +0000

If they revamp the duo line I think they’ll be a solid runner. Have 8 on mine runs like a dream

By: Tessa

Tessa — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:36:00 +0000

I don’t know what qualifies as a “full size” laptop, but I fully expect there to be convertible 13″ ultrabooks, and those are still fast enough to run pretty much anything that isn’t really specialized.

By: Tessa

Tessa — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:34:00 +0000

Give it a keyboard dock, Asus Transformer style, or even just a stand and a bluetooth keyboard and mouse.

When you’re at your desk, you can use all your legacy apps as easily as on any other laptop. When you’re in a meeting or out and about, you still have all the tablety goodness, and you never need to worry about managing multiple devices.

By: FellowHuman

FellowHuman — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:00:00 +0000

Why do people say ‘lab-top?’ It’s LAPtop.

By: Motmaitre

Motmaitre — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:39:00 +0000

Unfortunately, for Windows applications, Win8 is virtually the same as Win7, because they only run in “desktop mode”.

By: skinned

skinned — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:36:00 +0000

They should just re-brand the streak. That thing might as well be a tablet.

By: Heikoma

Heikoma — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:34:00 +0000

Yes I am still waiting for a full-size lab-top with docking station, easily convertible into a tablet which still has “full power” and is able to run easily all windows applications.

By: David Alvarez

David Alvarez — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:32:00 +0000

For sure they can provide a network security solution. However, I doubt that Dell can follow trough when they can’t deliver service to their own customers and employees.

By: David Alvarez

David Alvarez — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:32:00 +0000

For sure they can provide a network security solution. However, I doubt that Dell can follow trough when they can’t deliver service to their own customers and employees.

By: ThrowawayAccount

ThrowawayAccount — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:24:00 +0000

Hmmm…after the Venue Pro and Streak debacles, color me skeptical.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:24:00 +0000

I’ve been thinking this all along. If people are so eager to use iPad’s at work, then a tablet that runs Windows 8 seems like a home run to me. Gotta admit, it’s getting annoying to have end users keep asking me to use iPads at work, only to have me then explain they can’t do many of the things they’re planning on doing, would love to say, “your tablet runs Windows 8, no problem.”