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    Dell bets on Windows 2-in-1s, gives up on Android tablets

    Made the decision due to market trends and the productivity Windows 2-in-1s can enable.
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    Re: Dell bets on Windows 2-in-1s, gives up on Android tablets

    The problem I have with most tablets, be them iPad, Andriod or WinRT was they could do say 80% well. But the gap on the other 20% was insufferable.

    A classic for many of them that's less of an issue now, but a few years ago made me so mad, was websites that rely on hover events, say move mouse and menu appears being completely incapable on a touch device. Surface solved that very nicely.

    I've been trying to use a SP3 as my non-gaming daily driver for 18 months now. I'm hitting limitations with only 8gb of RAM right now, so it's had to take a back seat to the 24gb desktop. But the fact is, I think an SP4 with 16gb would have managed.

    If we are at the point where I can drive a few high res screens, run heavy software, a SQL cluster in a VM heavy, all from a 'tablet' then why would I have another PC? What I want is more of a 'docking station' meaning comfy chair, desk, screens, keyboard etc.
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    Re: Dell bets on Windows 2-in-1s, gives up on Android tablets

    Pardon my ignorance, but what's the two devices in the top picture? They look suspiciously like the (now defunct) Lenovo Yoga3 tablets.

    Actually, if they're stopping the Venue tablets (and I thought the Venue line also included Windows tablets too) does this mean that we can look forward to a few end-of-line bargains?

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    Re: Dell bets on Windows 2-in-1s, gives up on Android tablets

    Quote Originally Posted by crossy View Post
    Pardon my ignorance, but what's the two devices in the top picture? They look suspiciously like the (now defunct) Lenovo Yoga3 tablets.

    Actually, if they're stopping the Venue tablets (and I thought the Venue line also included Windows tablets too) does this mean that we can look forward to a few end-of-line bargains?
    The Android tablets pictured are Dell Venue 10 7000 Android models, as reviewed here.

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