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Dell’s first (of many) Windows 8 tablets has been revealed in an internal slide. It isn’t an iPad, that’s for sure.
According to Neowin, the Dell Latitude 10 will be powered by Windows 8 running on an Intel dual-core Atom processor dubbed ‘Clover Trail’. The tablet itself will measure 10.8-inches by 7-inches, which would suggest a 10.1-inch screen. That screen would have a resolution of 1366×768, be capacitive multitouch with the use of a stylus optional.
Furthermore the tablet will feature a 128GB SSD and 2GB of RAM, two cameras – an 8MP at the rear, 2MP at the front – and swappable batteries, one of which will last for up to 8 hours, the other up to 12 hours. The Latitude 10 will reportedly be available to buy in November, just after Windows 8 itself is launched.
This may indicate that, at least for the time being, Microsoft and its hardware partners are going after a different sector of the tablet market and a different set of consumers with devices running Windows 8. Apple has built a significant lead with its all-conquering iPad, aided in part by Microsoft deciding to go all-in with Windows 8, canceling Courier in the process. Microsoft looks set to avoid attacking the iPad head-on, instead concentrating on corporate customers.
This makes sense, at least in the beginning. A full-fledged operating system on a tablet would be more suited for businesspeople than casual users, and the early hardware is likely to be expensive. Over time the OS can be adapted as it needs to be, and hardware costs brought down. Then an assault on the mainstream would be timely.
This is likely to be just one of a handful of Dell tablets based on Windows 8 in the pipeline. And other manufacturers have also committed to supporting the new version of Windows in tablets and hybrids. The question now is whether Windows 8 will anyone buy one over an iPad at this point in time?
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