Dell's $499 Windows 8 Tablet Looks Like A Win For Business

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Posted 09 January 2013 - 01:36 PM

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Posted 09 January 2013 - 02:38 PM

What! $499 for a 1.8GHz Atom glorified Atom netbook with 2GB RAM and only 16GB drive space!

You must be joking.

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Posted 09 January 2013 - 03:26 PM

"It does not have a swappable battery..."

Translation:

Dell shrewdly decided that, instead of charging $800+ like the other OEM's, they would charge $499, but program the battery to die only weeks after the warranty expires, thus forcing the business to buy new devices. Of course, your data will not be lost because Dell, Microsoft, and 27 other organizations will have it stored on their servers.

No thanks.

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Posted 09 January 2013 - 03:56 PM

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What! $499 for a 1.8GHz Atom glorified Atom netbook with 2GB RAM and only 16GB drive space! You must be joking.

32 gb not 16. 16 was referring to iPad

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Posted 09 January 2013 - 03:56 PM

This looks like a fine tablet.

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Posted 09 January 2013 - 04:08 PM

I'm still not sold on ATOM processors yet. Also for businesses I think 2GB ram is low, should have at least 4GB or be expandable to 4 or 8GB.

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Posted 09 January 2013 - 11:17 PM

Not a work horse, but if you look around at your colleagues, you can assume which ones this would suit.

the HR and sales staff.

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Posted 10 January 2013 - 04:54 AM

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I'm still not sold on ATOM processors yet. Also for businesses I think 2GB ram is low, should have at least 4GB or be expandable to 4 or 8GB.

Your right I'll just buy a 4gb iPad for our business......... What's that?....... They don't exist......Well then I'll Get and android pad with......... They don't exist either??!!.........

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Posted 10 January 2013 - 12:28 PM

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What! $499 for a 1.8GHz Atom glorified Atom netbook with 2GB RAM and only 16GB drive space! You must be joking.

It's a tablet, though, and it's new. Not a bad starting price, considering prices will come down.

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Posted 10 January 2013 - 12:37 PM

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What! $499 for a 1.8GHz Atom glorified Atom netbook with 2GB RAM and only 16GB drive space! You must be joking.

You're right, however, to point out that functionally, this is a "netbook equivalent" -- unlikely that businesses will invest in them. (Much.)

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Posted 10 January 2013 - 10:42 PM

Unbelievable comments from some people. This tablet makes a lot of sense for businesses and consumers too:

1)This is a tablet not a desktop, 2 GB is okay for tablet tasks. Nobody is going to use this as full on pc substitute. Dell knows this and enterprises know this.

2) 1.8 ghz atom processor is still more powerful than a similar frequency arm processor with same number of cores.

3) It has an enterprise compatible (pc)OS, the main criteria for business

4) The only things ''lacking" are not deal breakers in a tablet, like rear camera and stuff.