Kyo_kusanagi86
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Dell Latitude 10 Review by Kyo86sg
With the increasing popularity and demand of the Windows 8 tablets (I am not referring to the lackluster RT version) which provides full windows experiences and support for legacy application , consumers now are offered tons of choices from vendors such as Acer, Samsung, Lenovo, HP, Dell and even Microsoft.
Being a consumer with lightweight media consumption (Facebook, browsing of the web, HD video playback, ebook) and office editing needs (PPT, word, excel). I valued and rated that portability and battery life are top of my checklist when I go shopping for my first tablet PC.
I figured that the Intel Atom offering would just be sufficient for my needs, since they offered the longest battery life and power efficiency of a total of TDP of 1.7W compared to the Intel mainstream offering of low powered processor such as the i5-3337U found in the ultrabooks which have a rated TDP of 17W.
Intel i5-3337U Specs
ARK | Intel® Core
Intel Atom Z2760 Specs / Slides
ARK | Intel® Atom
The Atom processor which is known mainly as a netbook processor over the past 5 years have had many bad association with it. A fact which I would have to admit. Words like Sluggish, Unusable, slow, Not recommended and even Waste of money were a common thing to hear. The first few generation of Atom processor couldn’t even play back High bitrate 720p videos let alone 1080p videos. It fare so bad on the multimedia side, one couldn’t imagine running a game on the system. The only positive side is that it is good on simple word processing, Cheap and have created light weight computing devices.
So you might have wondered, why I even would think of picking up an Atom processor now?
Well, firstly the Clover trail atom aka the Z2760 is a SOC (System on chip) was built ground up specifically for the windows 8. By having Intel working hand in hand with Microsoft in the development right from the start, it has optimize the hardware level such as the Power VR 545 graphic engine in the atom processor to take advantage of windows 8 visuals department, which in turn offers a streamless and responsive interface user now experience. Long gone are those crappy boot time or laggy interface where an average Clover trail processor boots into the start screen under 30 second. Oh did I mention that it could now play 1080p video without shuttering and offloading the processing to the GPU? =)
Well enough of the info on the Atom processor and let’s dig into the Clover trail offering by the various vendors.
Acer Iconia W510/W511 3G
Asus VivoTab ME400C 10.1”/ TF810C 11.6”
Dell Latitude 10
HP Envy X2 / Elitebook 900
Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2
Samsung Ativ Smart PC XE500T
With the increasing popularity and demand of the Windows 8 tablets (I am not referring to the lackluster RT version) which provides full windows experiences and support for legacy application , consumers now are offered tons of choices from vendors such as Acer, Samsung, Lenovo, HP, Dell and even Microsoft.
Being a consumer with lightweight media consumption (Facebook, browsing of the web, HD video playback, ebook) and office editing needs (PPT, word, excel). I valued and rated that portability and battery life are top of my checklist when I go shopping for my first tablet PC.
I figured that the Intel Atom offering would just be sufficient for my needs, since they offered the longest battery life and power efficiency of a total of TDP of 1.7W compared to the Intel mainstream offering of low powered processor such as the i5-3337U found in the ultrabooks which have a rated TDP of 17W.
Intel i5-3337U Specs
ARK | Intel® Core
Intel Atom Z2760 Specs / Slides
ARK | Intel® Atom
The Atom processor which is known mainly as a netbook processor over the past 5 years have had many bad association with it. A fact which I would have to admit. Words like Sluggish, Unusable, slow, Not recommended and even Waste of money were a common thing to hear. The first few generation of Atom processor couldn’t even play back High bitrate 720p videos let alone 1080p videos. It fare so bad on the multimedia side, one couldn’t imagine running a game on the system. The only positive side is that it is good on simple word processing, Cheap and have created light weight computing devices.
So you might have wondered, why I even would think of picking up an Atom processor now?
Well, firstly the Clover trail atom aka the Z2760 is a SOC (System on chip) was built ground up specifically for the windows 8. By having Intel working hand in hand with Microsoft in the development right from the start, it has optimize the hardware level such as the Power VR 545 graphic engine in the atom processor to take advantage of windows 8 visuals department, which in turn offers a streamless and responsive interface user now experience. Long gone are those crappy boot time or laggy interface where an average Clover trail processor boots into the start screen under 30 second. Oh did I mention that it could now play 1080p video without shuttering and offloading the processing to the GPU? =)
Well enough of the info on the Atom processor and let’s dig into the Clover trail offering by the various vendors.
Acer Iconia W510/W511 3G
Asus VivoTab ME400C 10.1”/ TF810C 11.6”
Dell Latitude 10
HP Envy X2 / Elitebook 900
Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2
Samsung Ativ Smart PC XE500T