Dell Latitude 10, a small x86 tablet focusing on business portability and fixed-point documentation, is available for hands-on play

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As the power consumption and heat of the new generation of Atom processors continue to decrease, thin x86 tablets that do not require active cooling design are finally available; Dell is also in this trend Launched a 10.1-inch tablet Dell Latitude 10, which belongs to the business series Latitude family, and adds a pressure-sensitive pen and an expandable keyboard and base design, making it convenient for use when going out. When you return home or in the office, plug in the base and turn it into a mobile phone. Paper computer.

This time Dell provides a tablet version, a stylus and a docking station for review

Jump to the beginning to introduce this tablet computer with a business-oriented design

Dell Latitude 10 adopts a low-key matte black shell, with Corning Gorilla tempered glass on the front. It is equipped with photography lenses on the front and rear, with a 2MP front and 8MP rear design. The surrounding area of ??the fuselage includes switches, volume, rotation lock, a USB slot, SD card slot, micro HDMI, a 2-in-1 headset slot, dedicated expansion peripherals and a 2-in-1 charging port. Micro USB is also rarely provided. slot, but what does micro USB do? Let me sell this for a moment.

You can see the huge Dell dark black logo on the back of the machine. If you look closely, you can see that the most special thing about Latitude 10 is that it has a replaceable battery, with a battery capacity of 2Cell 30Wh. Battery, you can also choose a larger capacity 4 Cell battery. The weight of the whole machine is 658 grams with the standard configuration.

The Latitude 10’s dedicated charging base is similar in style to the fuselage, with a matte black casing. The tablet’s connection port adopts a sliding design. After the tablet is plugged in, the tablet will lie on the metal stand. There is a USB 2.0 slot and a 2-in-1 headset slot on the front of the docking station. There is an Ethernet hole, a standard HDMI hole and 3 USB 2.0 slots on the back. The subtle thing is that after I plugged in the tablet, the The USB 2.0 slot will lose its function. According to Dell, up to 4 USB holes are already provided on the base, so they chose to discontinue the USB hole function of the tablet.

In terms of hardware specifications, its 10.1-inch IPS panel has a resolution of 1,366 x 768. In addition to five-point capacitive touch, it can also support WACOM technology pressure-sensitive stylus, but Dell will It is listed as an optional item. If you need a stylus for drawing and handwriting, you will need to purchase it separately.

The core is Intel Atom Z2760, with a clock speed of 1.8GHz dual-core, which can achieve 4 threads through HT technology. However, the processor only supports 32bit, so the system equipped with Latitude 10 is Windows 8 32bit version. The memory is 2GB DDR2 800MHz and the storage space is 64GB, but after installing the system, almost half of the remaining space is left.

The above are the test scores for Latitude. Due to issues with the processor's built-in GPU support, only the new version of 3D Mark scores are provided for the 3D test.

It is a pity that I did not borrow a protective case that integrates the keyboard, so I can only use it as a tablet when I go out, so I cannot comment on the feel of the matching keyboard protective case; Although the weight of the fuselage is slightly heavier than recent 10.1-inch Android tablets, it is still within an acceptable range. It does not feel too heavy when held with one hand. On the contrary, the fuselage has a certain thickness (10.5mm) that is overemphasized by some. The ultra-thin phone is easy to hold.

Although the fuselage supports the WACOM stylus, in addition to the optional stylus, the fuselage does not provide a storage space. If you need to use the stylus, you will have to find a way to carry it; in addition, the optional stylus There is no special design. I personally think it is a pity. If the weight can be adjusted, the value of the pressure-sensitive stylus can be better utilized. However, in theory, this Latitude 10 should be able to choose WACOM's own brand. It will be released in the near future. Introduced pressure-sensitive stylus.

In terms of battery life, Latitude claims to have a battery life of up to 8 hours. The actual continuous use of WiFi on the Internet is about 4-5 hours. What if you feel that the battery life is not enough but don’t want to buy an extended battery? The micro USB slot mentioned earlier can be used. The author can charge it using a mobile power supply that can output 5V 2A (that is, the specification that can be used to charge the iPad). The advantage is that it uses the same power bank as most smartphones. The micro USB can reduce the number of wires carried by users.

Since the storage space is 64GB, there is not much space left after installing Windows 8 and document software. However, the performance of Atom is unlikely to run heavier software and games, but if It is used as a multimedia tablet, so music, videos and photos may quickly fill up the space. Fortunately, the fuselage has built-in standard USB and SD card slots. The author would recommend storing multimedia files in a small USB flash drive or SD card to reduce the use of system disk storage space and avoid the problem of too little remaining space on the system disk. A situation where execution is not smooth.

The author believes that Latitude 10 can be used with x86 on Windows, or x86 can be used on Windows. Compared with Android and iOS tablets, the price of Latitude 10 is still on the high side (although the hard disk storage space is up to 64GB, it is actually available The space is only 32GB), and although the battery life is gradually catching up with the ARM architecture, the battery life is still relatively poor in comparison, and the current apps of Windows 8 are still in the stage of catching up. After all, quantity alone is not enough. .

If you think of this Latitude 10 as a device mainly used for surfing the Internet and doing some word processing, at least its architecture is still based on traditional Windows x86 and can execute standard x86 programs. This is Compared with ordinary non-Windows systems or even Windows RT tablets, it also has a replaceable battery and stylus support, which also adds some points to it.