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Dell Dumps Keyboardless Windows RT Tablets

Posted by Unknown on from the you-win-this-round-laptops dept.

jfruh writes "On Friday, Dell was selling Windows RT tablets for as low as $300. By this morning, the cheapest one on offer was $479. The difference? The only tablets they're selling now come bundled with keyboards, which may indicate that customers are finding even the Metro-focused RT version of Windows 8 too irritating to navigate by touch alone. (If you really want a 10-inch Dell tablet without a keyboard it looks like you can still get one on Amazon, at least for the time being.)"

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  1. "Press F1 to continue..." by Mr.+Slippery · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A friend of mine is a teacher. Her school got a bunch of these keyboardless RT tablets, one for each student. She brought hers out to our writer's group last night with the intention of getting sued to it.

    It wouldn't boot up, so her techie boyfriend started messing with it, He got it to boot to an error message of the "Press F1 to continue" variety...

    ...on a keyboardless tablet. He and I had a good laugh.

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  2. Re:not low enough by rudy_wayne · · Score: 4, Interesting

    $179 for a keyboard?

    WTF?

  3. It's *kind of* cracked. by Myria · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have an exploit to load NT kernel drivers at near-boot time on RT tablets. It's not as good as a true Secure Boot exploit, but in theory it would be good enough to make a Linux/Android build for Surface RT.

    Screenshot of my Surface RT running Windows RT with a kernel debugger, which should not be possible under Microsoft's Secure Boot configuration.

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