More details emerge about Dell's forthcoming Windows 7 tablet, Rosemount
Summary: Seemingly always prone to leaks, Dell had its road map for forthcoming phones and tablets leaked the other day, and now Engadget has received more details about the company's Windows 7 tablet, code-named Rosemount and due in June.First off, the tablet will be given Latitude branding and, as such, will be geared toward the corporate world.
Seemingly always prone to leaks, Dell had its road map for forthcoming phones and tablets leaked the other day, and now Engadget has received more details about the company's Windows 7 tablet, code-named Rosemount and due in June.
First off, the tablet will be given Latitude branding and, as such, will be geared toward the corporate world. It will be powered by an Intel Atom "Oak Trail" processor and come with a removable battery. It will also feature a number of enterprise features, including support for stylus input as well as touch, software encryption, and the ability to do a remote wipe.
Between this rumored product and the HP Slate, it's obvious that Windows 7 tablets are being marketed as enterprise devices, which isn't necessarily a terrible thing for Microsoft given how glutted the consumer space will be with Android tablets, the BlackBerry PlayBook, HP TouchPad, and a likely new iPad. If you're looking for more innovation from Microsoft around tablets, it might come with Windows 8 -- and Dell has a tablet, code-named Peju, on its roadmap for 2012.
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RE: More details emerge about Dell's forthcoming Windows 7 tablet, Rosemount
"It sucks"
"It'll be as hot as the sun"
"It'll be as heavy as the Titanic"
"It'll have poor battery life.... 15 minutes at best."
"It has no app support"
"I hate winblows propeller heads"
"Who the heck uses styluses anymore?"
blah, blah, blah, blah....
RE: More details emerge about Dell's forthcoming Windows 7 tablet, Rosemount
I forgot to say, it actually looks nice, Dell...
RE: More details emerge about Dell's forthcoming Windows 7 tablet, Rosemount
Entirely too true!
and don't forget "it will be slow and useless 'cause you have to run av software on it!"
;)
RE: More details emerge about Dell's forthcoming Windows 7 tablet, Rosemount
We are not Windows haters, we are DELL haters... and I'm from TEXAS... Last time I used Dell anything was 2004, their quality sucks, their customer service is all Indians who read scripts... sorry Dell needs a make over, they are stuck in 1999.
RE: More details emerge about Dell's forthcoming Windows 7 tablet, Rosemount
Dell's business support is actually very good...
Since this is targeted for the business and enterprise markets, support shouldn't be a problem.
Build quality, however, is something to be desired.
The problem isn't Windows
HP has a Windows 7 tablet out there now. They haven't sold 10,000 of them, in a world where Samsung sold 2 million Galaxy Tabs. You can't buy parts in quantity 10,000 and expect to be price-competitive with a guy who is buying in quantity 2 million.... let alone 35 million like Apple is.
No matter how much the Corporate IT guys might want a Windows device, they are not going to pick one that costs double what an iOS or Android device costs. If the hardware Windows is riding in on is not also successful in the consumer market, there is no way it will ever be price competitive with devices that are outselling it ten or a hundred to one.
There have been plenty of Windows tablets...
I think a Windows 7 based tablet is doomed for mediocrity.
Tablets and ebook readers and smart phones, and who knows what else
Any signs of who might be moving this way and when? I can't think I'm the only one waiting to buy any of these things until the market looks less chaotic and the products less likely to become orphans in short order.
Moto
Point and Click OS On A Touch Interface
GO back and come up with a REAL tablet OS Microsoft.
Until then, you're still late to the game.
RE: More details emerge about Dell's forthcoming Windows 7 tablet, Rosemount
Windows is more real of an OS than the shit they load on now. Mobile operating systems are a joke of an excuse to run on these devices. Very limiting, and really holding them back. No thanks.
RE: More details emerge about Dell's forthcoming Windows 7 tablet, Rosemount
And that's why Microsoft will never be a true competitor on a mobile market...it's like trying to fit all the functionality of a Cadillac into a Yugo and expecting it to work right.
Well Ron...
By @Cylon Centurion 0005's standards, it should be able to handle a Core i7 and have 10GB of RAM running on a bus speed of over 3.2GHz. Anything short of that on such a small device is a joke.
Isn't that right, Cylon Shill?
Apple Is The Only One Getting It Right
He has vision and this is what Microsoft lacks severely....
Laptops
Tablets
Phone
Video Games
PCs
Why is it so hard for Ballmer to go back to the drawing board and make all of the above cross-platform compatible?
Looks like Jobs has more brains than Ballmer.
RE: More details emerge about Dell's forthcoming Windows 7 tablet, Rosemount
Um, sorry, what did Microsoft just announce by moving the Windows kernel to ARM?
Try again.
RE: More details emerge about Dell's forthcoming Windows 7 tablet, Rosemount
Yet it's still a point and click OS...doesn't matter what it's moved to, it's still ARM.
RE: More details emerge about Dell's forthcoming Windows 7 tablet, Rosemount
So then all Macs will have the phone based iOS instead of Mac OS? I can't see how graphic designers that use Macs more than any other group of people are going to use a phone app instead of the real programs that are currently being used. When that happens I would imagine many designers moving to Windows to use real programs instead of a severely limited phone apps. The interoperability and cross-platform compatibility sounds great, but the same OS doesn't work on all platforms. The reason for all the different platforms is that different people have different computing needs and expectations of their devices.