Hands on with the Dell Venue Pro 11, a Windows 8.1 tablet with removable battery:-
Dell's range of Windows tablets feel more serious than the iPad and Android tablets of this world. The company clearly has a customer in mind with the Venue Pro 11, and that customer has work to do.
Tablets running Windows 8.1 are starting to trickle out at a steady pace now, but the Venue Pro 11 is still one of the first. This sturdy slate is about a plain as they come, but while it isn't going to win any design awards, Dell has packed it full of enhanced security software, through which IT managers can enforce and manage encryption remotely. It's undoubtedly a tablet that's very much ready for business -- and, Dell is probably hoping, for businesses to buy in bulk.
Powering it is a suitably powerful quad-core Intel Bay Trail Core i5 chip. Although details of individual models aren't yet available, storage options will range up to 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.
Crucially, the Venue Pro 11 has a removable battery, making it rather special among tablets. This means that if you regularly work on the move you also have the option of swapping a back-up battery pack in if its 10 hours of juice aren't enough. Other office-friendly bonuses include a full-size USB port and two display-out ports.
This tablet didn't strike us as being as sleek as the iPad or the new Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 in our hands-on first look, and it felt bulkier too. It seemed to lack the premium feel of Apple's tablets, and didn't offer the personality of the surprisingly pleasant textured leather back of the Note, and is instead an expanse of black plastic. The 10.8-inch Full HD screen offers 1080p resolution and showed off images and video perfectly competently in our time with the device this week.
Running Windows 8.1, the Venue Pro 11 is compatible with Microsoft Office, and Dell is taking the word processing capabilities of the software seriously, by providing a range of docks and keyboards to accompany its hardware. It even goes so far as describing it as a two-in-one device, reiterating that this tablet is more than a second screen for window shopping while you're watching TV.
For those who might want to take advantage of the dual display-out ports and use Pro 11 as a second or third screen on their office desks, there is a the Dell Tablet Desktop Dock that comes equipped with USB 3.0 ports.
The Dell Mobile Keyboard is probably the best option for those determined to any serious word processing on the move. It provides a full-sized keyboard with trackpad and adds 80 percent extra onto the battery life.
For a more casual approach, there's the Slim Keyboard, which also offers a full-size keyboard and trackpad and doubles as a cover, much like the detachable keyboard for the Microsoft Surface. Dell boasts that the keys still offer 0.2mm of travel and tactile feedback, but it's unlikely to prove satisfactory if you've got to type for any length of time.
Description: Dell Venue Pro 11
Tablets running Windows 8.1 are starting to trickle out at a steady pace now, but the Venue Pro 11 is still one of the first. This sturdy slate is about a plain as they come, but while it isn't going to win any design awards, Dell has packed it full of enhanced security software, through which IT managers can enforce and manage encryption remotely. It's undoubtedly a tablet that's very much ready for business -- and, Dell is probably hoping, for businesses to buy in bulk.
Powering it is a suitably powerful quad-core Intel Bay Trail Core i5 chip. Although details of individual models aren't yet available, storage options will range up to 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.
Crucially, the Venue Pro 11 has a removable battery, making it rather special among tablets. This means that if you regularly work on the move you also have the option of swapping a back-up battery pack in if its 10 hours of juice aren't enough. Other office-friendly bonuses include a full-size USB port and two display-out ports.
This tablet didn't strike us as being as sleek as the iPad or the new Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 in our hands-on first look, and it felt bulkier too. It seemed to lack the premium feel of Apple's tablets, and didn't offer the personality of the surprisingly pleasant textured leather back of the Note, and is instead an expanse of black plastic. The 10.8-inch Full HD screen offers 1080p resolution and showed off images and video perfectly competently in our time with the device this week.
Running Windows 8.1, the Venue Pro 11 is compatible with Microsoft Office, and Dell is taking the word processing capabilities of the software seriously, by providing a range of docks and keyboards to accompany its hardware. It even goes so far as describing it as a two-in-one device, reiterating that this tablet is more than a second screen for window shopping while you're watching TV.
For those who might want to take advantage of the dual display-out ports and use Pro 11 as a second or third screen on their office desks, there is a the Dell Tablet Desktop Dock that comes equipped with USB 3.0 ports.
The Dell Mobile Keyboard is probably the best option for those determined to any serious word processing on the move. It provides a full-sized keyboard with trackpad and adds 80 percent extra onto the battery life.
For a more casual approach, there's the Slim Keyboard, which also offers a full-size keyboard and trackpad and doubles as a cover, much like the detachable keyboard for the Microsoft Surface. Dell boasts that the keys still offer 0.2mm of travel and tactile feedback, but it's unlikely to prove satisfactory if you've got to type for any length of time.
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