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

[HEXUS]

Made the decision due to market trends and the productivity Windows 2-in-1s can enable.

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[TheAnimus]

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.

[crossy]

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?

[mtyson]

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.