Category:Laptops

The first few drafts of my last article touched on this but in the end, I edited it out because it was off topic. Nevertheless, this subject is worth a few words I think. As I mentioned in that article, not long after I joined my current workplace we standardised on Dell for our mobile …
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There are a few posts on this site called “The Grand(ish) Experiment” where I talk about using Dell Venue tablets with their respective docking stations, exploring their potential to replace desktop machines. The idea was that every office desk and classroom would have a docking station, teachers would have their own tablets with the software …
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Well, I’m no longer using the Venue as my daily driver. I liked the tablet and it proved itself perfectly capable of handling my workload. However, it’s now time for some the intended recipients of these things to try them out and see how they get on with them. To that end, I have given …
Continue reading The Grand(ish) Experiment – The Latest

It’s been two weeks since I started using the Dell tablet in anger. You may be wondering where the promised updates have gone. Well, here’s one. I think that the biggest question that I needed to answer was “Can one of these tablets cope as my primary workstation?”. The answer to that is an unequivocal …
Continue reading The Grand(ish) Experiement – Two Weeks In

Just a quick post here. The docking stations and cables for the Dell Venues arrived today and I wanted to post my first impressions. In terms of the hardware, it is surprisingly solid. It’s very weighty and feels like a quality piece of kit. Docking the tablet is easy, it goes smoothly in and out …
Continue reading The Grand(ish) Experiment – 1 Day In

There has been a lot of discussion at work recently about the future and how we’re going to embrace it. Specifically, a lot of the discussion has been around tablet computers and how the college is going to start using them. There are a lot of people who hear the word “Tablet” and think “iPad”. …
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