Dell Inspiron Duo Convertible Tablet with Intel Dual Core 1.5GHz, 10.1″ Multi-touch Screen with WebCam, 2GB DDR3 Memory, 320GB Hard Drive, Windows 7 Home Premium
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- Intel Atom Dual Core Processor N550 (1.5GHz, 512K L2 Cache)
- 10.1″ Widescreen (1366×768) Multi Touch with Integrated 1.3M Pixel Webcam
- 2GB DDR3 SDRAM; 320GB 7200RPM SATA HDD Drive
- Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium , 32bit; Intel NM10 Express Video
- Wireless 802.11n + Bluetooth 3.0 combo Card; 29WHr Lithium-Ion Battery (4-cell); Foggy Night Black
Flip into action. Experience fun, engaging mobile entertainment and enjoy everyday computing with an innovative 10.1″ adjustable tablet. Switch seamlessly from tablet to laptop with the flip-hinge design.
Ports, Slots & Chassis
Externally Accessible (1) Microphone (1) Headphone (2) USB 2.0 (1) AC adapter connector
Touch Screen Capacitive Multi-touch technology Dimensions & Weight Width: 11.22″ (285.0mm) Height: 1.03″ (26.2mm) front – 1.13″ (28.7mm) back Depth: 7.66″ (194.5mm) Starting weight of 3.39 lbs (1.54Kg)
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Dell Inspiron Duo Convertible Tablet with Intel Dual Core 1.5GHz, 10.1″ Multi-touch Screen with WebCam, 2GB DDR3 Memory, 320GB Hard Drive, Windows 7 Home Premium
List Price: $ 799.99
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INSPIRON DUO – GOOD (After 1year, Keyboard problems),
My general experience with this device was good. It has a beautiful design, simple and useful.
Pros
– Very easy to use.
– Excellent and modern design.
– Good sound quality.
– Excellent keyboard until… (see my comment below “After a Year”)
– Good Touch screen.
– Other applications included like: GPS (using wi-fi), compass, etc.
– It has a slot for inserting a celular phone SIM card, however it is not ready to be used. I thing this will be available in the future.
– Good colors and screen resolution acceptable.
– You can use the computer with the keyboard and the touch screen at the same time. Awesome.
– Good webcam included.
– This is the few net computers with Windows 7 home edition.
– Silent and quite.
Cons
– Few information of this computer in the DELL site. I hope to have more information from DELL.
– Acceptable performance. Nothing too fast, nothing too slow.
– When used for long periods tends to generates a bit of heat.
– It does not have a flashlight on the keyboard to work at night.
– It has a lot of useless DELL software installed, most of them “LITE” versions constantly requiring purchase of the full “PRO” versions.
– USB port cover is not practical to use when the computer is on a flat surface.
Other comments:
– I like Google Chrome, however for this software the Touch capabilities are not good. I’m using IE 9, it uses the touch screen capabilities in a good way.
– I was very dissapointed when I received the computer in a box where you can see in a picture the computer inserted in a Dell station, however when you open the box, you only find your computer alone. The Dell station is sold separately.
– Have not a cover included. I bought a Belkin cover.
– Strange behavior when the computer enters in Stand by alone. After this, you can listen some “beeps” and you need to try starting up the computer with a forced start up.
After a year
– Problem issue with the keyboard. With a few utilization in general terms of the computer, after one year the keyboard presents problems with the following keys:
2, W, Backspace, , Enter, PgDn, PgUp and Space. I run the Support Center Software and it indicates that everything is ok, however, the problem persists. You know, the computer is out of the original warranty.
– All the other computer parts are good.
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|not so much,
I recently bought this computer, I had it for two days and decided to return it. tooooo slooow. I love the idea behind it, but dell needs to do more work on it before it could charge up to $800 for this computer. I did everything I could to speed it up, but there just isn’t enough ram. HP also has a similar touch laptop, but is more expensive, but has more ram, I wonder if that will have better results. I would have loved to keep it, I really do think it’s going to be the next norm in computers, but it’s just too soon maybe.
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|Inspiron Duo, nothing but trouble,
I don’t post reviews on products often but I am so disappointed with this netbook that I’ve posted three times. I purchased this netbook in May and by August it was no longer working. After having Dell’s techs run a diagnostic, going out and getting several independent opinions, Dell admitted several months later that I had a faulty hard drive. They had me send the netbook in for repairs and said they would send it back in 10 days.
Guess what? It’s been 24 days and counting. They’ve now told me they don’t have the parts to fix my hard drive and they want to give me a refurbished netbook to replace it. After several weeks of complaining they admitted that they are no longer producing hard drives for this netbook. In fact they are no longer producing the netbook at all. According to the tech I spoke with even customers who are currently ordering new Inspiron Duo convertible netbooks will be receiving refurbished units. I called the Dell sales department to verify and they are now having a clearance sale on this netbook with ‘limited’ supply.
Don’t buy this netbook—it really is a shoddy product. Dell has obviously gotten the message that this product is nothing but trouble.
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