The multi-touch touchpad is responsive and large, but I never found myself using its multi-touch features because it was just easier to touch the screen than to figure out the disconnected overtures necessary to get the touchpad to communicate the intended action. On the good side, the keyboard sports more roominess, including well-place arrow keys. And like all glossy touch screens, including Apple's, finger smudge is an issue, so either invest in a matt screen cover or keep a clean microfiber cloth nearby.Īpparently because of the swivel hinges, the Duo is wider than other 10.1 inch notebooks, which is good and bad. It may not be right to compare the Duo to an Apple iPad, but Dell did enter the tablet market, and the $50-per-unit less expensive iPad produces crisp images from any angle, which makes the Duo an even more personal device than the iPad because it doesn't offer communal viewing angles. Viewing the screen from the sides produces noticeable darkening of the image, and view top down washed out the image completely. Unfortunately, the screen inside the innovative swivel hinges comes alive only when perfectly angled. Its rotating flip 1366x768-resolution LCD display is a cool addition to many of the clumsier approaches of the past.
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For anyone who has used a SmartPhone of any design, including Microsoft's, Windows 7 is an embarrassing touch environment on a 10.1 inch display.Īt first glance, the Duo screams industrial design. Windows 7 may be touch capable, but that is only because it sits under a multi-touch display. As a tablet, the cool tilt-and-swirl display makes for an intriguing hardware demo, but adds little value, especially after experiencing the real Achilles heel of the Duo: Windows 7. For road warriors charged with delivering endless PowerPoint presentations, the omission of video-out makes the device nearly useless.
As a netbook, it is a bit bulky and over-engineered, and it also lacks some basic mobile needs like video-out and a media reader.
Dell Inspiron Duo An eye-catching design concept, but who is it for? by Daniel RasmusĪfter spending some time with the Dell Inspiration Duo, what some call a netvertible, I have to start by asking: for which audience did Dell targeted this device? The Duo is an oversized netbook that converts to a tablet, but it is good at neither.
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