Dell Venue Pro Tablet Windows

Dell Venue 8 Pro 32 GB Tablet (Windows 8.1) (Personal Computers) I have had this tablet for about 4 days now. Wow, what an unexpected surprise. Yes, I am a windows ecosystem user and unapologetically so. Finally, we are beginning to see the windows oem vendors start to build and release hardware that shows respect for their customers. Compare the quality and price of the venue 8 pro to the acer w3 and you will see what I mean. The Acer W3 was an insult to windows users--the venue 8 says windows users can have quality hardware commensurate with android and apple and at a reasonable price. Thank you Dell! Are you listening HP!

Pros:

- Screen: Fantastic, no complaints, beautiful, bright movies, pictures, everything looks gorgeous on it.
- Sound: Loud, clear in fact much louder than the surface pro
- Build Quality: Thin, light, solid build, good simi-rubberized back easy to hold. comparable to quality of ipad mini and high end galaxy note.
- Pen: I have not tested the pen, but that it has an active pen for me to use with OneNote, well this is icing on the cake.
-FULL DESKTOP OS: Now granted many desktop applications are not touch friendly, but you can get the stylus and render this issue mute for desktop apps. You can run all of your company's applications on this device--if you choose not to fine, but you have the choice. There are more than 4 million applications available to the windows desktop. Peripheries will have no problems working with this tablet, is that true for ios and android?

- Office: No, you are not going to write a dissertation on an 8inch device, but if you were so inclined, with office you could. Having office means that, if I need to tweak a document I can do so while leaving the document native format untouched. When I am in meetings, OneNote allows me to have all of my meeting documents organized in a tablet, take notes, and send follow-up items to my assistant. Simply by sharing the notebook with my assistant through SkyDrive my notes can be seen instantly as I am writing them. We can collaborate on excel, word, PowerPoint documents---PRODUCTIVITY, YES! It's like I am buying a copy of Office and Microsoft is throwing in a wonderful tablet for free--folks this is a no brainer!

- PRICE: I would have easily paid more than $400.00 for this tablet and would have thought it was a steal at that price, but $299, it's a no brainer

CONS:

- WAIT TIME: It took two darn long for a windows OEM Vendor to produce a product like this.

FINAL THOUGHTS:

If you are a PRODUCTIVITY-CONSUMPTION USER, then this tablet is perfect for you. You can work and play on it. Any 8inch tablet is going to limit the extent of you authoring activities unless you hook up to a keyboard, mice and large monitor. But the fact that you can do tweaking of documents you authored, you can collaborate, take notes, etc. This tablet can do what no ipad mini or android mini tablet can do.

If you are a CONSUMPTION-PRODUCTIVITY USER, you will still find this tablet extremely useful to more than satisfy your needs, though if you are an extreme game consumption user, you might find more mobile games on other platforms, though the added benefit of running a full desktop os, might offset this.

Apple and Android vendors have creating competition, force MS and it's vendors to get up off of their keasters if they want to play at this level, and frankly I am grateful to Apple and Android for playing hard ball, at the close of the day we are all the winners for it.


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