Dell Latitude gets things done

Dell Latitude gets things done

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But if you want to actually get something done, rather than just looking good running around the block, the homely Dell has it all over the Apple product in many ways.

The Latitude 10 is one of a new breed of tablet that can run Microsoft's Windows 8 Pro operating system and all the enterprise friendly bits and pieces that bring a smile to the chief information officers who run large fleets of computing gadgets.

These include business-grade security and device management and easy access to virtual private networks, as well as a three-year warranty and the promise of being able to sweat the asset for much longer than a typical consumer tablet, like an iPad.

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While Apple has purposefully left out USB ports and memory card slots from its tablets so that you cannot expand the iPad's memory and are locked into Apple's model price points on differing memory capacities, the Latitude 10 has a full-sized USB port and an SD card slot for memory expansion.

The Dell Latitude 10 Windows 8 tablet and a slew of forthcoming Windows 8 tablets from Asus, Acer, Fujitsu and others use the new Intel Atom Z2760 Clover Trail chips. This dual core silicon engine runs at 1.8 Ghz and uses a PowerVR SGX 545 for graphics, clocked at a speedy 533Mhz.

The Clover Trail Intel chip used in the Dell Latitude 10 is Intel's first big push into the modern tablet chip market and it's a lot quicker and a lot less power hungry than the old Intel Atom chips that powered the cheap netbook PCs that have taken such a hit from the advent of tablets.

As a guide, I benchmarked a 2010 model, HP 5102 netbook powered by a single core, 1.66 Ghz Atom N450 chip.

Under the PCMark 7 test, the HP knocked up a score of just over 500 PCMarks. The Latitude 10 showed almost triple the grunt, churning through the benchmark in just over 1400 PCMarks.

In use, the review Latitude 10, which ran Windows 8 Pro, was quick and fluid as it wrangled Microsoft's new tile-centric Windows 8 operating system.

I would snap quickly from desktop mode to the Start screen, would load Word in Office 2010 in a couple of seconds and would play HD movies and snack-type games such as Pinball FX2 without a stutter.

Given its potential as a laptop replacement tablet, the Latitude screams out for a combined keyboard and cover, like the nifty, snap-on, snap-off keyboard cover for Microsoft's Surface RT tablet.