Dell Inspiron Duo Hybrid Tablet Review, Price and Specs

Dell Inspiron Duo Hybrid Tablet Specs

Dell Inspiron Duo is an impressive sight. It's not often that we are fascinated by the idea of ​​a physical device, but the Dell Inspiron Duo, but not for us. Vehicle engineering feat and really redefines the convertible notebook segment. This is a 10.1 "netbook part machine, part of the film, but unlike many competitors, the commitment not in the portability factor and shape, or both. When you open the package, it seems that the Mini 10 or even 10 "Netbooks.

But when you open the lid, simply click on the LCD screen can rotate and lock into place in the reverse order. Close the lid down on top of the keyboard that you are looking for a pill. This is one of the most innovative notebooks I've seen in recent history, and can not accommodate a team of engineers is enough to think that Dell as the realization and nails with such accuracy.

As you can see here, the price of $ 549.99 ($ ​​50 more than a JBL docking station, two USB 2.0 ports, an SD card slot and an Ethernet port of entry) is largely due to the specification rather slowly. This is the only way Dell can make this car a very attractive price, but they have much to cut corners in terms of power? Design is only able to truly appreciate where the material is a good user experience while with us in the pages below for all our trials, and all that.

As I said in the first game, Duo Inspiron design is unmatched. He has won several design awards, and rightly so. The folding screen / large rotary. Even more impressive, since the fluid rotation and solid feel. You can see that Dell is indeed a lot of time and effort poured into this beautiful piece. Disaster, when you want, and pivot very well when you want to reflect. The hinges are not loose, everything is perfectly clean and perfect. It's great to play. We love the Panel, and flipping netbook tablet mode is a pleasure in itself.

At 3.39 pounds, is heavier than a standard netbook, and a 10.1 "screen offers a resolution of 1366x768 screen and standard rooms, good enough for a medium-sized chiclet keyboard. Dell has a good job preservation of the region. .. fine line drawn between the LCD and turning very thin plastic that can not be said that the structure of the CAP was beautiful, in our opinion, and the trackpad was a good size for a netbook that we like the structure, however, perfectly smooth and easy to navigate separate buttons left / right were very popular. and then the trip was perfect. Very rarely, I must say that the review of netbooks.

Dell also the labels of the wrist to a minimum (only 3!), And there is some light at the edges. While the machine like a netbook, the port looks like a tablet. There are no ports on the front and rear, and left the house, only a headphone jack and two USB 2.0 (which are covered with a plastic lid, which can be suspended if you want to access).

There are no ports on the right in general, and the power button. Located just below the rim of the horn. In principle, there is a thin base connector, which allows the device to sit on the JBL speaker dock ($ 50 option). This means that the car docking station with Bluetooth mouse and keyboard for the BT module is included, and the spring also offers Ethernet jack, SD card reader, two USB 2.0 ports and audio jack. No entry for the power supply and the dock, and AC-update for each of different size. So do not forget to wear a wire when you're traveling, you need both.

No optical drive, and surprisingly, there is no memory card slot in their own duo. There is no video. I can not recall another 10.1 "netbook that video was a little foggy. Even the JBL dock option has no video output, this fact alone gives us reason to believe that Dell plans to film the first and netbook second.

However, a complete copy (32-bit) Windows 7 Home Premium, so do not worry about the limited functionality of the software. Keyboard and mouse pad very hard and strong, and in general, we found that one of the most reliable market netbooks. From $ 550, we can not expect less, but it's always nice to see the company's expectations.

It is a little heartbreaker, but we must be honest. During the time the Duo Inspiron exterior design is not surprised by his weakness. We understand that a lot of pressure on prices there, especially with the 10 "netbooks and tablets. However, 1.5 GHz Intel Atom N550 dual core is just amazing in itself to produce consistent user experience a pleasant environment for least a standard hard disk drive if you have access to information and high resolution screen duo (1366x768).

From the start the car, there are performance problems. Many viruses are starting a mess screen and the "Bing Bar", Internet Explorer winding. Our first two attempts at IU has led us to force close the application to launch, which finally came to Chrome, but it was slow, even a single application to open the heavy lifting device, a severe reaction and multi-tasking not fulfilled .. I tried to install the program while watching a 720p video, and it takes 20 seconds to reload the clip of Duo make things happen, of course, but they are out of the box configuration to a slow, even for a netbook .. Of course, an update would be much SSD netbook and install heavy virus cleaning.

It is a 7200 RPM disk drive here, which are fast enough 2.5 "hard disk, but disk performance is not always realized that Benfica lacked the Intel Atom line of multimedia things the future. But I honestly am not seen as a vehicle overloaded for a long time, even simple tasks such as counting and check email requires patience .. With AMD Fusion APU is now a reality, and many dual-core Atom / Ion combinations to choose, there is no reason to settle for below average netbook, though not entirely be the fault of the transformer. costs of software installed on the machine from Dell, I'm not sure.

The tests show that more than ever. Low "2.7" was written for the qualification of the Windows 7 experience tells you a lot, and received a poor 144 3DMarks in 3DMark 06 less than any other netbook I've tried. We expect netbooks to work as a desktop replacement, but the Atom N550, integrated graphics card in this computer is not entirely his own good.

Overall, I am quite low before the performance, especially in view of the device. This is a great project, but we need more powerful hardware (and, possibly, another operating system on the tablet) to be really useful. There is also a scene layer software Duo Dell for immediate access to the media, games and books on the shelf, but not perfect and sometimes can be a burden too many resources.

Despite the lower rates in tests and games, in general, the duo can display 720p and 1080p content without problems. We do not recommend multitasking with video playback, but if you put the device to read the content, you should be fine. Our car was a little hot when the handle 1080p video, but not noticeable stutter, despite a power meter, so dangerously near the tip.